AND THE REST... LONGJI (STILL SAM, SHE HAS A BETTER MEMORY THAN ME FOR THESE DSTANT DOINGS) AND ME TRYING TO REMEMBER GUILING AND HONGKONG (NOT A LOT REALLY IN COMPARISON!) ENJOY... LONGJI...Longgi- Rice PadisThe next day was another early start and we were off to the the country side for 3 days, we had to pack a small bag with enough stuff to last us for the days. This was pretty difficult for me and Tess but we managed it. We got stuck in traffic for 2 hours s...

Well lets see what we can re cap from the last time that we updated: sam... filling in x'ian - yongshuo... enjoy... Xian: When we got to the train station we had to walk for 10 minutes with all our bags to the bus which took us to the hotel, when we arrived we were all feeling pretty dirty when we arrived at Xian so the first thing we did was have a shower. Once we felt human again we all went on a walk around xian with our guide so we knew where everything was....

MORE BLOG ENTRIES SOON... we've struggled in china to get on the internet at all, so, we have almost no blog for china. instead of attempting to remember each place n write it up, then u guys having to read thru it all, i think we will just do a china summary in the next few days, telling u all the main bits we can remember. at the moment weve just really arrived in hongkong, and seen opur first bit of sunshine and heat since leaving australia about 3 n half w...

Great Wall Well it was another early start for us ( So everyone at home you don't need to feel to jealous). We had to be ready to leave by 8 with all our bags packed, checked out and a packed lunch ready. Then a mimi bus picked us up and took us to the great wall. It was a 3 hour journey on the crazy roads of china where they seem to have no road rules what so ever. On the way we also stopped at one of china's wonderful toilets- (squats) Which are never nice eve...

so... china! well, beijing! the flight was about 13 hours in the end as we were delayed a bit. me and sam managed to watch 5 films on the plane, lol, we watched JUNO, very good, then RENDITION (v good, but bit serious for a plane journey!), then MR WOODCOCK (bit rubbish), then MARGOT AT THE WEDDING (absolute rubbish, me and sam were unipressed!) then SLEUTH (weir but good)! so that filled our time out and we even got nice food to eat, including a mini boost bar, ...