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...