today was a random day!! i had a bad nights sleep in the dorm, the beds are worse than the train!! we went for lunch and decided to play mini golf. our taxi driver took us to an actual golf course charging 4400 yuan for a round, but we only wanted crazy golf! so we then had to try and get another taxi, who evetually got us to the right place! it was really cool thre, apparently the first in china, it was run by a couple of american guys and was done really well,...

we had a long journey and arrived at the hotel after luchtime so we checked in and me and tony went to as western restaurant for lunch...pizza, potato and cheese and onion rings, it hit the spot!! we then booked our bus to vietnam and sent off for our visas that arrive on wednesday, we leave wednesday night!! we booked our 2 nights accomadation in dorms for the next 2 nights after evryone leaves. before we went out to dinner everyne had to have their introductio...

youll have to excuse the repeat of pictures on here, im using stas as it takes so long to upload my own! Soooo, today we met at 8am on our way to the panda reserve!!! (apparently woolong was actually destroyed in the earthquake and all the pandas have been moved, some to here and other places) We first walked in and saw 4 adult pandas eating bamboo, very cute, but the guide had tols us the babies were round the corner so i had to move on quickly!! There was a wo...

so we had our first day in chengdu!! It seems to be a really nice plce, we arrived after our 17 hour journey from xi'an whcih was quite good. Me, tony, dave and sarah played cards and looked at all the hills and waterfalls it was beautiful scenery to be on a train through. In the evening on the train we played poker and taught xin to play, although he was too good we feel he may have fibbed about not knowing how to play!! At 6.30am we checked in to the hoteland a...

today was the most fntastic day, it serassed my expectations, we met in the lobby where the guide xin had got for us was waiting and we got in our bus for the 1 hour journey to get to the terricotta warriors!! straight away the guide began to explain to us how if the farmer had dug a meter to the eat they would never have been discovered which just amazed me and tone.We looked in three pits, the first was HUGE it holds 6,000 warriors but many are covered over th...