Well i've made it to lijiang in the yunnan province , i,ve been here for a couple of days now , it seems like age's since i left Beijing . From Beijing i went to Xi'an to see the Terracotta Warriors , which for such a big draw were really disappointing , you can't get very close and there cover in a huge building that looks like a railway station . I stopped in Xi'an for 3 days lots of other people at the hostel , which made a good atmosphere ...

Thanks for your concerns about the ladyboy and bum bandit situation , at the moment i haven't had to break open the vaseline ! not yey anyway . I've been in China since the start of the month , and coming from Russia and small towns China is like a different planet with wall to wall people everywhere . I started of in Suifenhe a border town where by peoples reactions a don't thing anyone had every seen a westerner , every other person that walked past...