Hey Guys- so im lying as im actually in Kunming again now but came from Dali today. After the Gorge trek I stayed the night in Lijiang- watched 'Into the Wild' and bumped into someone who was on my Russian trip not just staying in the same hostel but in the same room! I took a 4 hour bus the next day to Dali and when there ended up staying in the same room as Mark- who I had done the Tiger leaping trek with a few days before- random again! We decided that we bo...

Just got back 20mins ago from my 2 day trek of tiger leaping gorge! Was really good fun, the first day was pretty hard work with a lot of up hill/ mountian but after a few hours it evened out and the rest was flay or down. Still after 6 hours of walking non stop i was pretty tired by the time I got to the halfway Guesthouse. Luckily I had meet a really nice English couple Sam and Steve and another Irish guy Mark to walk with so I have no choice but to power thou...

Hey guys! So since I last wrote on here, which wasnt the most informative blog I know, I have been to Hong Kong and am now in Kunming. Yangshuo was really cool, set in these huge limestone mountains and a small backpacker town with LOADS of amazing shopping and good bars to chill out in and have a snickers shake. From there we went to Hong Kong on a overnight train and I spent 3 nights there. The tour ended after the first night but Ansgard and I met up the ne...

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Hey guys! Soo havent updated you on what I did in Nanjing or Suzhou so will do so now. Was in both for 2 nights and was nice to get out of really rammed cities- having said that, it seems like there isnt a city that isnt rammed with people! Nanjing is famous for the massacre of Nanjing or also known as the rape of Nanking. As you can probably guess it was a massacre by the Japanese in 1937, where in a 6 week period around 300,00 people were murdered and most of...