Got to Yangshou and felt right at home..its the chinese tourist resort of the south mid west, alot like Tenby!! There are alot of shops, western food places, night clubs and lots of organisd adventure activities!! Our hotel was called 'faulty towers'....it was a bit rough on the edges but no bugs or nasty surprises!! After getting a bit of a shopping head in Shanghai i went in scout of a nice bag...here there are alot of knock offs but the sellers don't hide thei...

Got to Shanghai mid day, dropped off bags and went for a goosey round. Our hotel (posh) is across a small river from the Bund. Shanghai is manic...every few steps you get asked 'bag, watch, gucci, prada' you've just got to march on!!! We had sushi and then went browesing in a foreign book shop that has some great stock. We then found the local hostel which has a sea themed roof top bar...quite expensive in hostel and chinese terms but the view was wor...

Got to Xi'an (Shee an) about 7.30...all a bit blurry eyed from a few beers on the train and not much sleep due to all the noise. Went to our hotel...posh again then straight out form some breakfast at the best hostel ever!!! Wanted to go on internet and found this dungeon of a plcae on the 4th floor of an electrical shop. It was masses and masses of 20 year old chinese men all smoking and playing video games...I put my head down...didn't breathe in and downloaded...

Hey! some of you have seen the pics so now here is the news!! We left Beijing very early by bus to get to the Great wall...as i said we were going to a remote part and there really were no other tourists on our trail. Stupidly we started our trek at 10.30 am which meant that we were out in the midday sun...no shade for 5hours in 32 c heat!!! Luckily we had all been advised to bring lots of water and i was like a camel and took 5 litres with me!! As you can s...

Hey hey....well things are good...its the 3rd day of the group stuff and iv been busy busy...plus the weather has been alot better (28-32C). On wednesday I met one of the girls from my group..she's swedish and from the same area as mum so thats cool...we went to Tian'amen square and down to the temple of heaven...Gudrun (Goodie) is mega blonde so we got alot of looks which is just plain funny now!!! Wed night we went out all as a group to a hutong (beijing ...