Hello! We are so sorry that we haven't had a chance to update our blog for a few days. We are now going to think back over the last few days and update... So we last wrote on the 18th Feb when we were about to leave Yangshou to go to the Rice Terraces. On the 19th Feb we got up early and had to leave our lovely guesthouse and take a 4 hour bus journey to our next destination via the train station where we had to leave our backpacks for 2 nights so we could treck...

Hello! So to bring you up to date with our blog - we are staying at the farmhouse up in the hills at Yangshou and don't want to leave! Unfortunately we have to leave tomorrow though as we are going to the Lonji Rice Terreces for a treck (which we are looking forward to but could really do with some more days here as we love it so much!). This morning we got up in our own time (the rest of the group went to learn how to cook Chinese food but we didn't fancy it) a...

Written by Holly On our second day in Yangshou we decided to go for a group bike ride (9 of us) without a guide (very risky!). Every single activity here has a guide option which is pushed by our main guide but we keep turning her down so it's cheaper! We went for a nice breakfast in MC Blues where we had eaten the previous evening (some of the group feeling a bit delicate!) of banana milk porridge and toast and then went to hire bikes - only 1.50p (no pound sig...

Written by Holly Hello from Yangshou! We haven't updated our blog for a few days so thought we would spend a bit of time in the internet cafe (still very smokey!) updating the last few days. The 16th Feb was our first proper day in Yangshou. The weather isn't as nice as we were hoping - they had a mini heatwave last week so we were getting the shorts out in anticipation, but alas, it's quite overcast and chilly. Still warmer than England though and probably bet...

(Written by Holly) Well, since we last wrote we've done quite a few things... mainly sitting on an overnight sleeper train but more about that later! On Valentines Day, we had a morning in Shanghai to ourselves so we just mooched about the city really, we took the subway underneath The Bund and had a look from the other side. It wasn't that exciting to be honest as it was a really hazy day and quite cold, nothing like the previous day when we had been walking ...