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...

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...