On the morning of the 10th November we got ourselves down to Tian'namen square, we walked from one end of the square to the other. at the far end of the Square through and arch way and under the Chairman Mao picture is the enterance to the Forbidden City. We speant 4 hours wandering around huge buildings, through arch ways and over bridges in the very impressive Forbidden City. After we took the long walk back to our hotel. We woke up early 11th Nov in order to...

The following day we went to a god awful place called The Silk Markets. Everythings fake but it cheap, so we brought a few jumpers and scarfs etc for the cold weather we were now faced with in Beijing. We spent nearly the whole day in there haggling and arguing the rediculous prices in which we were givin in the first instance. After a long hard days work shopping we got a taxi back to our hostel and chilled out for the evening. The following was our day to con...

With our passports stamped after an hour at the Chinese immigration we skuttled back to our new shiny train (one without rats!) We settled down into our new train along with a nice Mongolian man for the next 36 hours train journey to Beijing. The journey, surprizingly went very quickly. We slept, read and looked out of the window at the Chinese country side passing us by. 2 days later at around 2pm on 3rd November we finally arrived in Beijing. We made our way ...