Arrived in Shanghai in morning and attempted to get metro to hostel but was chaos so gave up and jumped in taxi. Once here booked into dorm and went to have a look around. Saw Rob from manchester who i had met in Beijing and he told me that vicki from Beijing was also here. That made my day because after a couple days of being in Luoyang and being limited to speaking about 10 words max in last couple days I needed some english people to have a conversation with, ...

Another train journey to Luoyang and I got off train in evening and went to search out hostel. got told differant directions by three differant people, well I say told pointed since the English here is even less spoken then previous places and this is probably due to the lack of tourists in this area. When finally arrived at hostel I had the dorm to myself, however was told that not available tomorrow as fully booked and this is due to it being a public holiday t...

Well lets see if I can remember exactly what went on in China whilst I was there. It seems like such a long time ago now, I have been very lapse on the updating of the blogs but then Im sure anyone who has travelled will tell you there just isn't enough hours in the day!! I went to train station nice and early for my first Chinese train experience and it all went relatively smooth. When I arrived at station you wait in a waiting room (funny that) and like an air...

Ni Hao After a flight to Singapore where I spent an hour (and what a shock that airport was after leaving Delhi) I boarded my plane to Beijing and arrived in early afternoon. I asked the tourist info desk to write down the hostel I planned to stay at in Pinyin so the taxi driver could read it and grabbed a cab from outside terminal. I said a few words of mandarin to him as entered taxi and showed him paper with address on it. He obviously thought I could then sp...