We decided to spend a night in Macau just to see what it was like, had heard it was the Vegas of the east. Arrived at the cheapest hotel in town… & in this case you did get what you paid for!The room was very damp & smelly with a `new innovation' of a combined toilet/shower,but we headed out to explore anyway & the town is actually very pretty & touristy, with lots of Portuguese influence. We decided to blow some of our budget at the Grand Emp...

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We made our way to Xi'an on our 1st sleeper train. Being budget travellers we took the cheapest 'hard' sleeper, being top of three.Luckily (cos you couldn't sit up and getting up and down was a tricky task!), lights were out at 10pm. The locals in with us were friendly one heading for a Nokia staff team building trip and a merry man who kept apologising for drinking too much, whilst trying to chat with us about the Olympics. Xi'an was the smoggiest place eve...

Hi again, Sorry for the delay, been a bit slack on the updates. We now have the pics from the Great Wall visit on 28th Oct, which is pretty much a huge wall, but still impressive in size and height, one of those things you cannot miss out if visiting China. The pics show the views we got - a bit hazy, but still pretty clear. One of the highlights was the toboggan thing you got to go on to get back down, Tracy was a bit anxious at first but loved it and I manag...

Morning all, Just back from a trip to the great wall and will post pics and blog later on that. We are set to leave Beijing tonight after 6 days here and have really enjoyed it here. We stayed in a Hostel right in the heart of the city, close to all the major sites, but still managed to get lost on a daily basis! Beijing has felt more relaxing and we haven't stood out so much here, although we do feel like local celebs, when visiting Tiananmen Sq we have freq...