So on Friday we met the group early in the morning and went to the Temple of Heaven with our guide. By now, some more people had turned up - two girls who had already been travelling through Asia and Oz and two guys from Kent who had been delayed at Heathrow. The temple cost about 4 pounds to get in so was pleasingly cheap! By this point we were a bit templed out, but we perservered. The Temple of Heaven is one of the most famous places in China, other than the...

So, on Saturday we climbed the Great Wall of China! It was such an amazing experience we still can't quite believe that we did it! The bus picked us and our luggage up from our hotel at 8am. By this time the rest of our group had arrived so we are now 16. We drove for about 3 and a half hours to get to the start of our Great Wall experience. We were met by a local guide who's Chinese name translated to 'Sea Dragon' which we called him for the entire day. First st...

Hello! Well we realise that we are a bit late updating our blog, unfortunately it's been so hectic that we literally haven't had a chance to do it! So we have now paid for a few hours in an internet cafe whilst waiting for our train out of Beijing and thought we would use the time to update you all on the last few days.... So on Wednesday night we met our group. There were only 8 of us that had arrived and the other 8 had been delayed at Heathrow. We were so luc...

Ni hao! Today was a pretty amazing day, we went to the Olympic Stadium and had a look around. We are still not sleeping properly so were awake at 5.30am and couldn't go back to sleep. After numerous games of cards and watching a film on the Ipod we decided to get up and do some exploring. As there is quite a few restaurants near to our hotel we can continously smell cooking which has made us feel quite nauseous and we just couldn't face Chinese breakfast. We fo...

Hello! So today we woke up at 4am because of the jet lag and just coudn't get back to sleep. So we were up and dressed and ready to go for 8am and decided to find our way around the main part of the city. We took the subway to Tiananmen Square (the central point where all the tourists go!) and when we stepped out on to the street we were completely awestruck - the area is just amazing! The Forbidden City is just so beautiful and was full of Chinese tourists - we ...