3rd 10th Sept BeijingOur firt night was spent in absoloute luxury. We treated ourselves to 4* hotel with all the trimings and even breakfast in bed. only one night then back to reality a hostel in the town.well Beijing was a major shock so many people, pollution and noise makes the hair stand up on your  neck.Once we found our way around it was only getting better Tinamen Square was just a big  concrete expanse. we did visit Chairman Mao Memor...

26th Aug 1st Sept Hong Kong As we stepped off the plane from Bangkok. We leave the tranquility of Asia behind us.. The airport is packed and as Advised by Pat we search for Hotel and Travel card before leaving the airport. Well the inofrmation desk is very good and produce a list of accomadation nearby in Kowloon we spend the next hour phoning our way through the list with NO success now it is getting very late in the evening.We jump on a bus going to the centr...

22nd 23rd Aug Inthanon National Park WOW What a great time!! Our first adventure was Bamboo Rafting. These rafts were made of poles strapped together. They took four people only on each raft Mark was given the job of Punting at the back of the raft. which was actually quite hard work as we glided through some graded rapids. We were all soaked very early on by the nutty punter on the front who kept delibrately sinking the raft saying "if you are not wet you are ...

21st Aug Chiang Mai resting up after a few hair raising days we take a TUK TUK driver out for the day.. 1st Stop Monkey School not our normal thing but these guys are all orphans and are trained to do stuff for their up keep the show was very low key and the mionkeys looked really quite happy and well looked after. 2nd stop Snake Farm Now this was different!! The trainers were doing stuff with various species I wouldn;t want to try at one time a trainer had o...

20th Aug Well we started off to reach Ubon Thailand very nice VIP bus for a change NO chickens. and we all had air con and our own seats wow this was luxury. passing through the border all OK no issue apart from not being able to change currency due to it being Saturday and exchange place not open. No worries we will change it when we get to Ubon mmh that didint happen either, same problem no ATM and no banks Oh s...t we screwed up this time.. We want to buy ou...