Ahhhh i made it to Shanghai!! I caught the subway last night around 8 and lugged my overweight self to the South Beijing Railway station. Seriously need to rethink my luggage situation, i am carrying around about 23 KG =/ Walking down stairs was like a complete workout. The lovely people on the subway kept giving me their seats hahaha When i got off the subway this random Chinese lady showed me to the lift and then gestured me to follow her to the railway. The ...

On Saturday I went to The Great Wall of China. All I can say is that it was incredible!!! Absolutely beautiful scenery. I joined a tour and went to the Mutianyu part of the wall which was reconstructed by the Ming Dynasty. I now understand why they call it "hiking" the Great Wall. If you've read any of my other posts you will know I'm not particularly great at hiking hahahaa my inhaler definitely saved my life! I made a friend on the bus from Australia and me, h...

Today was a long but interesting day. I ventured out for breakfast with these Danish girls who were at reception and we couldn't find anywhere decent. We walked through what looked like basic market stall that sold live frogs, crabs, clothes, worms, black eggs. All sorts of weird things! We ended up at a supermarket and the girls tried the local food. I opted out as it looked rank!! 2 of the girls had giant pancake on a hot plate and the man cracked an egg in and...

I made it to Beijing! So far so good. The taxi to the hostel was pretty easy apart from the fact the guy didn't know where it was at first. I even gave him a Chinese address. He had to ask his phone where it was and it gave him directions, few. The Chinese cars are so safe - they have seat belts with no where to plug them into too and they obviously drive really quick while they are on their phones and they are dodging the bikes haha. My hostel seems orite. The...