the train ride to xi an was more uncomfortable than the last train, and there we not partitian things at the end so we were all exposed, it got bright to early and i was up for ages. I was worried as i had been put in a separate compartment by myself and the people wouldnt move to let me put my bags in so i got a bit flustered and upset, but xin was able to get the person to wap so i was in with everyone else! trauma over! the view of th city wall was very cool ...

we woke at 7am and had a manky breakfast at the hotel and i ent back to bed for a nap before we left for the 20 minutes bus ride to our camels.so at 9.30am we met them and began our journey. our leader, xin, juliette, me then tony were in one group and the others were behind. we followed the road for a while, crossed a main road and then entered the tennegar desert. The huge sand dunes and vast open spacce was incredible, teuly an amzing experience. Altough at fi...

we met at the hostel at 10.30am at checked out of beijing hostel to go to zhongwei. we left the station at 12 and began our 23 hour train journey!! the hard sleeper trains consist of small compartments of 6 tiny bunks, me tony dave sarah jonny nd katie were in together and julkiet and xin our leader were in a separate one. staright wawy drama as xin told us we HAD to show our tickets and 4 of us had misplaced them (including me and tony!!) after 5 minutes tony fo...

hello there, i know its slack service here!!ive been too busy. So...beijing, seems so long ago now! we went on the great wall on the tuesday, it was absolutely amazing, but i have never been so tired in all my life!! It was the hottest day so far and we set off bright and early for our 3 1/2 hour bus journey to get there, en route i realised id forgotten to charge my video camera which upset m abit. when we arrived i was amazed, up in the hills you could see the ...

Hello from Beijing!!! we arrived on friday morning after a very long and boring flight, in which i managed to watch 4 films and 4 tv programmes....and still have time to spare! We had an easy journey though, no real turbulance or delays so in all a success. They had no entry forms so our flight ended up in a long queue filling them out and trying to enter (as the cabin crew only had enough for first class and buisness, typical!) we evetually made it through and ...