ni hau! greetings from shanghai! this city has been awsome were both gutted about leaving after just two nights. its a lively city although not as crammed as beijing and alot of the architecture is european from the war so parts is like walking in london. we've had lots of really good street food, chicken, beef, spring rolls, corn on the cob. were enjoying the food more as we make our way south its more cantonese. we had beef and prawns in breadcrums and mayo la...

hello everybody! wowee what can i say about the great wall huh, incredible. no photo will do it justice but i tried best so check them out. xian has been really cool, its the old capital. only marred by girl getting bag nicked from her feet in this very internet cafe yesterday. me and ash split like bananas when we heard coz we had our cameras and ipods on us. we back now with just cams in pockets. terricota warriors yesterday, very intresting guy that had t...

hey!! so we finally arrived in Xi'an this morning after a 14hour train jounrey from Beijing!! was ok in the top bunks no room, but nice to have your own space!! the citys really nice its within 4 walls spread out acroos 14km! we have been to the local markets bartering for a few bits and bobs!! then we headed for the drum and bell tower which were really good and tehn we went to the great mosque of Xi'an which was pree\tty peacfuk and queist compared to Beiji...

hello again everyone. coming to the end of day two and i think we are still both getting over the jetlag we are both nakered, although we have walked more in these two days than the whole of last year. we went to the temple of heaven 2day which is a serious ofvery impressive buildings and a big temple built in the 1400's, pretty cool. also surrounded by acres of trees, was quite relaxing actually. were finding things quite different here, still getting stared...

hello everybody from alex and ash in beijing, chrisinting the blog. we arrived here safely and hassle free thanks to a transfer from a random old chinese guy in his ancient vw. its 22.30 on the 27th here and we think we've been awake about 36 so were both dead on our feet. we've explored a little today and have until saturday when we leave for the great wall. were going to a kung fu show tomorrow night. met up with the group today, their alrite, mostly brit...