Wednesday : sunny Today we are up early to go see the Great Wall of China. Im very excited it's something I have been wanting to see for some time now. Our noodles and Vegemite on bread went down well. Then we waited in the hostel reception to be picked up. There were 4 other people waiting to go on our tour also. We got called up and walked to our bus, the group size increased to 16 at the bus. Other hostels must run the same tour and combine the people to ma...

Tuesday : sunny Up nice and early today we had a lot to see, no burger breakfasts today, we had a healthy breakfasts, Kim had muesli, and I had noodles. We were at Tianmen square by 10am and it was open, well sort of. They had everything barricaded off, with soilders on picket guarding everything that was of some significance. large sections of the square were no go zones, people couldn't go near monuments, the flag pole, even flower gardens were out of bounds,...

Monday : sunny It was a very quiet night and morning at the hostel, the noisy people must of checked out yesterday. We left our room and looked to the hostel for some breakfast. We both chose beef burger for breakfasts. Yum yum. The hostel has a pretty good menu and it's cheap too most meals are under $5. After a burger breakfast we paid to stay more nights, and booked a tour to go see the wall on Wednesday. Then we hit the streets, and made our way to the su...

Sunday : sunny Today was going to be a rest day. Nothing planned as yet except food, beer and reading. We had a good sleep, I was surprised it wasn't that noisy last night. We got up and went for a walk down the road. We went a little bit further this time with our walk. We stopped at a restaurant which had a sign out the front, advertising coffee. There was no coffee, we ordered dumplings and more roast duck. Unfortunately the meal wasn't very good at all, t...