I am currently sitting in Hong Kong airport but wanted to finish up my Chinese adventure. Typical me, I've been here a couple of hours already and still have a few to go..one can never be too careful :) the amount if snoozing I've done in the time is a testament to how exciting travelling through China has been and I will miss it a lot! Yesterday evening I had the most delicious meal ever with Alison on one of the top floors of a building with beautiful views of...

Well I've done it again! But it's my own silly fault :) has been a hectic few days and have only stopped to catch my breath now! I warn you this is rather hurried and repetitive :) On the morning of the 16th we packed in a hurry and a few of us set off for our calligraphy class in town. The woman was lovely, although she did try to sell us everything from the brushes to the paper, and we quickly learnt how to draw the Chinese numbers from 1-10. It was great fun...

2 trains, two taxis and a bus ride later we arrived in beautiful beautiful Yangshuo! I had a rather embarrassing situation where I started jabbering away at normal volume about how annoying the man next to me was, coughing and fidgeting all the time (no one here speaks English remember so I felt safe) and also he left his flask and went for a wonder and I mentioned how there could be a bomb in it..random I know! Well a you can imagine I was rather shocked when th...

Oh I just love it when I leave the blog a few days..so much to catch up on! I'm currently in a small city just outside of Chongquing killing time before my bullet train to another city, followed by a night train to Yangshuo..it's been a busy few days! On the 11th we arrived in the big ugly city of Chongquing early in the morning and took a taxi to a lovely crummy hotel that charged by the hour (!?) so that we could pay for 1 room to recharge and dump our bags i...

Today we were woken up again by the school exercises and sleepily got ready for a day at the terracotta warriors (said to be the 8th wonder of the ancient world), luckily we'd packed the night before this time so no watch could hinder us! We left the hotel at 9 with a local guide who told us about the warriors and how they were built the first emperor of China (a member of the Quin dynasty) about 2000 years ago. He was also the emperor who joined all the provinc...