Shanghai, Mez and me!!! very quick note, as i'm using free internet at a tourist information, but had a blast in shanghai. Met up with Meredith obviously, and she is the same as she was, loud, rude and you gotta love her. Did all the normal tourist things here, Shanghai musuem on the first day and then celebrated Chinese New Year at our hostel and met lots of nice people, two of which were in Xi'an with me and on the same terracotta warriors tours which was odd...

so after arriving early we eventually made it to Xi'an and haggling over a 50yuan taxi we decided to walk to the hostel, only 5 mins, so glad we weren't ripped off. We opted for a quiet, easy day so drum and bell towers which were really close to our hostel and booked ourselves on the the terracotta warriors tour for the next day. This was obviously the highlight of our trip in Xi'an however was a bit of a let down. There didn't seem to be as many as I thought th...

PANDAS!!!!!!! Nothing much more to say about Chengdu lol, saw lots of pandas, they were adorable, some of them were only 4 months old, and we got to see them eating and sleeping. That is all they do though. We went to the biggest environmental area in China for them, and they have the largest amount of Giant Pandas, also got to see red pandas which were nice but not as cute. Helen and I went to pay 500 yuan to sit next to a giant panda and get our photo taken wi...

So last time I updated my blog I was leaving for a flight to Guangzhou, which Matt and I arrived safely with none of the hassel that we had previously experienced in Sanya. First impressions of Guangzhou was that it was more western than most of the other cities that we had been in China. The place is also known as Canton and is where apparently most of our Chinese food from the West comes from. After a long lie in Matt and I decided to explore the city, we went...

Sanya . . . oh Matt and I had a lot to learn about traveling and it would appear that Sanya is the place for us to learn it. We were in a random town waiting the arrival of our train, we had a good few hours to wait, so as you may recall I was in an internet cafe, just passing the time. We then took a lesuirely strole, grabbed some lunch and then picked up our luggage that we had securely left at the train station. Now I read other peoples blogs, one of which is ...