Another early start this morning to go on a canoe on the River Jaiwou which was a lovely way to start the day a little boat trip followed by a walk up one of the gorges and an acrobatic tightrope show thrown in. After this it was back on the boat for a couple of hours before we reached our final destination Mooping. From Mooping we caught a bus to see the Three Gorges Dam which was impressive and then on to Yichang where we are to catch a bus to Wuhan which wil...

We had another early start this morning as we are off to visit White King Town. We duly assembled at 7.30 am in the lobby to await disembarkation. I did get a little worried at one point as couldn't find Nick through the thick fog of cigarette smoke (I'm sure Matthew Kelly is on board doing auditions for Stars In Their Eyes, or it could really just be the chain smoking Chinese!) Visited the Temples in the town which was a nice little walk and then it was back o...

Got up early this morning as we were due to visit the Ghost City at 7 am. Hung around Reception (I use this term loosely, it is an area for people to smoke and spit!) for 2 hours but there didn't seem to be any move to go ashore. We eventually went in search of the German guy Karl and his interpreter Nick who we had met yesterday and had told us to give them a shout if we needed anything. They informed us that the trip had been postponed till this afternoon. So...

Today we were going to visit the World War II Museum in Chongqing. We asked at the desk in the hostel how to get there and were told we would need to catch the bus into the city centre and then the light rail to the museum, so off we set. Got on the bus for the city centre and an 1 hour later we arrived at our destination (still with a train ride to go) at this point we realized we would not have enough time to get to the museum as we needed to be back at the h...

Arrived in Chongqing this morning and after checking in to the hostel we set off for the Zoo. Now I had hoped to see Giant Pandas in a nature reserve whilst we were here but the hassle with getting train tickets has made me lazy so we are going to see them in the zoo instead. It wasn't that bad either lots of different animals including two very aggressive Rhinos who spent most of the afternoon fighting. I use the word fighting loosley as they were like two Trims...