Hello again everyone, yes i know that's mt. fuji in the postcard picture but i'll change it when i can. when itai and me left maerkang we also left helena, she needed to go back to chengdu, we went onto danba about 7 hours south by rickity bus. when we got to danba we realised why not many people go here, it\'s a hole! so it wasn\'t long before we got a ticket out of there within the an hour of arriving there, not before having a shouting match with the...

Hello again, after spending a night in the hole that is zoige it was onto maerkang for a couple of nights, and by this time itai and me have picked up someone else for a couple of days, her name is helena and she's from essex. cue the essex girl jokes! on the bus ride here i felt as rough as a badgers arse, not sure if i wanted to throw up or soil myself. believe me it's a tough choice! after driving through some pretty crap roads (more like tracks than...

Hello again, YAK BURGERS!! that's all i've heard about this place before coming here, and now i see why! itai and me arrived here just before night fall as hungry as 10 hungry bears, next stop lesha's resturant. in here they sell huge dishes, and i mean huge dishes! we all went for the small yak burger which was big enough to fill anyones appitite followed by a good size slab of apple pie. very nice! in the morning we went trekking up one of the mo...

hi guys, after leaving jiuzhaigou bright and early itai and me were heading back down south towards songpan just for one night before leaving to take the road north again to langmusi. i was only in songpan for a day but it was really nice. most people come here to do horse treks but it's just a stop off for me. i spent the day walking around the town which is really nice. it has a wall going all around the town and inside the wall the town is full of sh...

Hello again, 11 hours after leaving chengdu i arrived in jiuzhaigou. the bus ride here was stunning. we passed mountains with snow capped peaks and alpine valleys leading into the town of jiuzhaigou. the first night i arrived to late to enter the nature reserve so i stayed in a cheep hotel just outside the park so i could wake up bright and early and enter the park. after a ten minute walk (10 minutes is a long time when you have a huge backpack on...