Easily the worst day in China.. An early start followed by SIXTEEN hours spent on a train which stunk of pee and as the train was during the day it was difficult to get any sleep.. Once we arrived in Yichang we found ourselves a taxi to the hotel, although Sandy was a bit worried that the taxi driver didnt close the boot once we had put our rucksacks in! Still we made it in one piece and with all our bags to a rather pleasent hotel in the centre of Yichang. De...

Well I'm currently 9 days behind on here and the organised tour has actually finished!! I'm currently sat in the finishing hotel and will be heading of to Lantau Island very shortly... Anyway, back to Xi'an. With one day left in the old capital before another mammoth train journey (this one to Yichang) we went to see the world famous Terracotta Warriors. We were both shocked at the size of the excavation sites and the sheer number of warriors in each of the thr...

After a insane amount of time on a train we arrived in Xi'an。 Xi'an is a former capital of China and it is also our tour guides home town， we started with a quick walk around the town and stopped briefly to try a chinese beef burger, which put Mcdonalds to shame! We then headed through some tourist markets and onto the city wall which is a 13km square which surrounds the city centre, after being given some information about the wall we climbed to the top and...