Just re-writing this blog, as it didn't save it and I lost it last night! Very frustrating. Yesterday, after a delicious breakfast of cakes and coffee, we went off to have a look round Buenos Aires. We saw the palacio del congreso, shown in the photo, and visited the stunning cathedral, which we almost missed, because it looks like an art gallery, or a museum from the outside. We visited the Casa Rosada, where Eva Peron made her famous address to the people of B...

Buenos Dias! So here we are, off on our travels again. We left home at 3am on Friday morning, and by the time we got to our hotel here last night it was 3am Saturday morning (by UK time), so we were pretty tired. Tony had also started a heavy cold on Thursday, so felt really groggy all day. No 'in-seat entertainment screens' on the Iberia flight from Madrid, which was a shame. Had to watch a film called 'We bought a zoo' shown on a very small screen hanging dow...

Well, our trip to Ping'an in Longsheng province, to visit the famous rice terraces, was quite an adventure! Unfortunately this is me trying to re-write the blog from Hong Kong, as we arrived back here this evening, as for some reason the one I tried to send early this morning wouldn't work. Also there was no picture of the Longji rice terraces in the STA website photo library, so these are something simillar from Pakistan! We were sad to leave the Li River Retre...

Quite a lot of rain overnight and the occasional clap of thunder, woke up to drizzle this morning and a bit of travel fatigue! As a result, we took ages to decide what to do, but eventually decided to make the most of our last day here, as we're off to Ping'an tomorrow, to see the famous 'dragon's backbone' rice terraces. Apparently our hotel there is built in the traditional style of the area, (which means it's made of wood and 30 minutes walk uphill from the ne...

Hello again from Yangshuo. We've had another very interesting day! We' d booked a taxi for 8am, to take us to Yangdi, about an hour's drive away, so we could get a bamboo raft down the river to Xingping (about a 2 hour journey on the water) then a local bus back to Yangshuo. Sounds simple in theory......but this is China, and nothing seems to be completely straightforward! The taxi turned up on time, and we were just slightly apprehensive when we saw it was the s...