I HIKED THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA!!! I cannot get over it! We drove for a coupleof hours from Beijing in a minibus (back in our old trek comfort zone) bumping and jolting over speed bumps （one time the driver flew over the speedbump, flinging us all a good foot into the air!) until we reached the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall. Puffing and panting all the way, we reached the wall and WOW! it was even cooler than I imagined! It was surprisingly tiring (I had t...

So, its official: the ultimate taste bud ECSTASY is caramalised pineapple and strawberries - on a stick!!! For dinner tonight we walked down Wangfujing Street which was so lit-up it was almost as bright as daytime, and crossed into a sidestreet lined with stall and stall of the WEIRDEST food i have ever seen (most of it on a stick) Fried seahorses, dogmeat noodles, scorpian-on-a-stick, watery soup of floating tentacles, bbq coccoons, centipedes, silkworms and sea...

We arrived sweaty and tired after a long day of travelling at our hotel in BEIJING, where we were immediately asked to drop our bags off and come downstairs for the orientation meeting. Nicole, our guide who is from Chengdu, warned us about all sorts of things in China, like thieves and beggars, scams and counterfiet money. Looks like our taxi driver, not only overcharged us (we were too tired and confused to argue) and got lost a number of times (actually gettin...