Nothing much to say about Wuhan. It was a stop off point that I've ended up being a few days at. Walked around the city a bit in Tuesday. No sites to see but the city was nice. Took some interesting photos of much randomness. Right now I'm on a train heading to one of my last two stops in China, Guilin. Hard to sleep being the fact hard sleepers as suggested in the name are not the comfiest, there is a ridiculous snorer and it is like a bloody sauna. Next po...

Cruise now over, thank god the boat didn't sink. As per usual the cruise was done cheaply, it only cost £56 for the 4 days 3 nights. The £56 brought me a bed in a four bed room and there ended up being four of us so we had a room to ourselves. Only a squat toilet and the room seemed liked it hadn't been cleaned in years but you get what you pay for. Unfortunately the sights at the stop of points were even more expensive than most so we went to one temple. It w...

Xian has been an extremely nice change from Beijing. It's still loud, busy and a tad smelly. The local people that inhabit Xian are still for the most part rude but everything is a lot less so than Beijing. It seems quite relaxed in comparison. Xian has been the location of two of my favorite things of the trip: the Muslim quarters and the terra-cotta warriors. I can guarantee that the warriors will be nothing like you expect it to be. Unfortunately like everyt...

Tomorrow I leave Beijing for Xian, hopefully. Its a bad day tomorrow because Hannah is going home too but thankfully it's not as long a stretch before we see each other again. It's been amazingly different here and we managed to do most of the main tourist stuff. The first day we went to the forbidden city, which I have to say was a bit underwhelming. We went to the temple of heaven park the next day, the pearl market and tianmen square. Day 3 we went to the sil...

I've now been in china for 5 days, although I've not really done any of the major attractions cause I meeting Hannah here, today :). I spent my first few nights at the happy dragon hostel, cost me £4 a night and was better than a lot of the other places I've stayed at. The hostel was in the dongcheng area near the forbidden city. So far I've had my biggest culture shock here. One of the main things thats surprised me is how poor the majority of the people are ev...