Xian is a smaller city then the others we have visited so only a couple of days here. The hostel we were staying in was a traditional Chinese courtyard house which was very beautiful but very cold as the heating wasn't so good. The main attraction in Xian is the Terracotta Army. It was amazing to see them alll staring back at you. It is almost difficult to comprehend how ancient they are. We also visited the Big Goose Pagoda which was very serene. We climbed the...

Ok Chengdu for Christmas. We arrived on the 21st after our epic 30 hour train journey (although we've got longer ones to come so we best get used to it). We have an amazing hostel and we are staying in a pivate double which is fabulous. We saw lots in Chengdu and ate lots of food. I will for now just mention the key moments. We found the best streetfood especially from the Muslim stallholders. Spicy and yummy. We had a really good meal called dapajan (I think I...

Ok so these are very llate due to the interesting internet we had towards the end of our trip, but I kept a written journal so here I am updating you fools. Getting through the border with China took a while as we were travelling on a Friday and the Cinese love going to Hong Kong. We have heard from a couple from Hong Kong that this is because they like to shop there and they know it will be genuine whereas in China its fake. Not sure how true it is. But we mad...

Ni how (written not in pinyan but how you pronounce it) from China. OK so we are now actually in Xian about to head to Beijing for the beginning of the end. But this is goin to be about our arrival in China. The bus journey was good. We met two Australians on the bus and at Vietnamese immigration the officials were friendly and having a joke with us. We walked through to China which was a very shiny new building; they did not have a laugh with us but were very ...

It has been a long time since a blog has been written and I apologise. This has been for various reasons such as generally been busy, a little trickier to get long term internet use in China and a mild laziness. Oh well. As you will have gathered in my last sentence we are now in China; infact we have moved from Hanoi across the border to Nanning, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and we are currently in Chengdu, so alot has occured since my last blog. Today I will finish Vie...