Okay, so we've done the following since our last postcard: - Three Gorges River - big, brown, bit of a let down to be frank Xi'an - Had our toenails painted with little flowers and our hair cut - Terracotta Army - fairly bloody amazing actually Datong - Hanging temple - little but pretty - Caves - ginormous buddhas carved out of rock with the biggest incense sticks you've ever seen - Trip to Hohhot for Mongolian visa, bit of a nightmare getting ther...

Little did we know, when we set off from Kathmandu, that our journey to Tibet would actually be the journey from hell. Okay, maybe that's a slight exageration, but it did start off that way. The bus left 6 hours late which meant that when we arrived at the border (which we've got some photos of by the way, much to the annoyance of the army), everyone in customs had gone home. We then had to surrender our bags and passports until the morning and stay overnight ...

Here are a few homework answers that have brightened up our marking. My friend ate my breakfast after some weeks. My mother ate my dinner after some minutes. I ate my breakfast after some day. Task: Write a conversation you would have when visiting the doctor. Patient - Hello doctor. Doctor - Hello how are you? Patient - I was suffering from eyes. Doctor - What do you do yesterday? Patient - I look at the sun. Doctor - You look at th...

Hi everyone, We\'ve had an action packed time since the last postcard. There were national strikes on in Nepalese schools last Monday so we took the opportunity to go on a half day trip to Bhaktapur, a much less commercialised town vs Kathmandu. We had lunch opposite what is supposed to be the most perfectly proportioned pagoda in the world! Looked alright to us. We were also overlooking the square and fifty men trying to dismantle a huge medieval ca...

Hi everyone, sorry it's taken such a long time to provide you with a second riveting installment of life here in 'KTM', for those that are pretentious. So, a couple of weekends ago we went on a white water rafting trip on the Bhote Kosi river. There were about 12 of us, two rafts worth and we camped at the riverside. The rafting was great fun, we'd definitely like to do it again. We slept under a raft with a piece of tarpaulin over the top and used our su...