Hello again, Hangzhou was recommended to us by a number of people so we decided to jump on a train and spend a couple of days there. Marco Polo described the place as the most beautiful city in China. We arrived at lunch time and wandered around, grabbed some food (our favourite, you basically pick what you want, meat balls, mushrooms, potato etc and they chuck it in a pot and then put spices etc in there). That night we walked along a bit of the lake taking so...

Hi Guys, We arrived in Shanghai around 7am with our german friend Sebastian and were greeted with the first days rain since we left England 10weeks ago! I didn't feel great but we only wanted to spend two days here so we decided to get straight out and see the sights. The visibility was really poor matched up with it being a national holiday and queues for most tourist sights were huge so not a great day, we went back to the hostel and got some sleep. That night...

Welcome to Xi'an, We took the night train from Beijing and arrived in Xi'an (pronunced Shee'ann) 11hours later. I could easily live here it is the best place I've been so far. Our dorm beds are 3pound each and each night we can eat for 2pound each including beer! The atmosphere is even more relaxed than Beijing. We have made more friends here than anywhere else. Xi'an has the oldest city wall in China, its 10miles so me, Laura and our friend Stuart hired some b...

Hello everyone! So sorry we haven't posted our blog sooner but........well were just having to much fun, China is amazing! Ok, well we landed in Beijing and made our way straight to our hostel which is so relaxing, cheap beer, good music and a great place to socialise. We started off by going to see all the popular sights such as, The forbidden city, Tian'amen Sq, the great wall, temple of heaven, the hutong (old Beijing) and of course the zoo. The great wall...