What a place Loas is, small sleeply streets laid back and chilled to the max. This picture is of the waterfalls and it is paridise. You could feed tigers and bears which as the came from the local area was a bit freaky but really good. Chack out the photos for more. Having a ball weather great everything dirt cheap. Fiona got a lovely loas skirt so she looks like a local. Night market is amazing fiona wants to fly out her mum and sisters to see it personally I bo...

Well folks we finished up in China and have entered absolute heaven in sleepy Laos!!!It is an absolutely beatiful country. We went on a 2day mountain trek and stayed with the AKA people. They have their own language, traditions etc and they were wonderful. For dinner we had pork and we saw them pick the pig, kill it, skin it, cook it etc and the did the same with a chicken the next day. The children of the village gave us massages, it was great!! The trek was ama...

Just a note to say that downloading our photos onto the website takes such a long time and stevo and fi dont like it! So going to give the photo downloading a rest for a while but we'll keep up our journals xxx

No photos up for chengdu yet so this is one of stevo in Xian...anyhow Chengdu had the gorgeous pandas!!!Saw loads of them and the wee baby ones were so so cute, we also saw two of them getting it on...was funny. Chengdu was a great place, less people and lovely wide streets...went for an indian meal for a change and it was one of the best we've had. Hostel wasnt the best we've seen, was very crowded and not the cleanest but good food and hot showers. Done alot of...

Arrived after our hard seat experience ouch!!!People around us on the train were fab, especially a wee drunk china man who loved stephen to bits!!!Xian is lovely, less busy than the big cities...visited the terracotta warriors and few museums. Warriors were very interesting!!Also enjoyed a dumpling banquet!!!Xian had the best market we have been too...hangling went well...managed to get four sets of chopsticks for just two pounds!!!Woohoo