Day 4 So after a fleeting visit to Tokyo it was time to pack up the bag and make the trip south to Kyoto where we hoped to experience the traditional (how it was) Japan.To get there however, we needed to experience the bullet train.We turned up at the station, with a ticket each to travel on the Nozumi train and quickly settled into our seats ready to be blasted to Kyoto.To be fair, it goes extremely fast and the whole journey is very well organised. It is amazi...

Day 1 Tokyo So an early morning start got us through the very bureaucratic but badly done China immigration and onto the plane to Tokyo. What a difference between China and Japan. After our brief 7 days in China, it was immediate that people just seemed happier in Japan but then there seemed to be a lot more wealth for the majority of people and a lot less people. There were some awesome cars as well. Quite often you'd see an Aston or a Ferrari (saw a Hummer w...

Day 6 - Sunday 31st This was our last full day in Beijing as we had booked to go to the Great Wall on Monday. We decided to take it easy and go to Beihai park (not sure of the spelling). The park is located in the centre of Beijing and it was bustling with people when we got there. The park isn't really touristy, instead full of normal people just enjoying a stroll in the park or meeting up with some friends on a Sunday afternoon. We chilled out for a couple of ...

Day 3/4/5 Sorry for not updating the blog for a while. We have been unable to logon to this site. Anyway. On day 3, it was all about the Forbidden City.By this time, we had started to learn about actually looking at the map scale because what only seems like an inch on map is actually 3kms and we'd walked about 20km's on each of the previous days. So we got to the Forbidden City and wow, this really is a city. It's crazy to think that this was really two family...

Day 3/4/5 Sorry for not updating the blog for a while. We have been unable to logon to this site. Anyway. On day 3, it was all about the Forbidden City. By this time, we had started to learn about actually looking at the map scale because what only seems like an inch on map is actually 3kms and we'd walked about 20km's on each of the previous days. So we got to the Forbidden City and wow, this really is a city. It's crazy to think that this was really two ...