so much has happened since my last entry! so will try compress the information into this one entry! been to dali, kunming and yangshuo (where i am now) since the last time i updated. last tuesday we headed to dali. i liked it much more than zhongdian, was a nice little ancient town with roasting hot weather and yummy food :) just like in western cities there are china towns, in dali there is 'foreigner street' which is lined with shops and bars and restaurants ...

hi all! so as usual been super busy - china is very tiring! there is so much to see and do and you have very little time to sleep! on wednesday we took yet another night train on our way to lijiang. it was a 14 hour journey and unfortunatly all of us had the top bunk beds which was like being in a coffin! you couldnt even sit up and the ladder to the top was scary! we had some drunken chinese men beside us that just sat drinking 'alcohol' - thats all it is, not...

ni hao! (hello in chinese) so the night train to xi'an was awful. it was dirty and smokey and had no air conditioning so the windows were left wide open - everytime a train went past and honked its horn i jumped out my skin! needless to say it was a fairly sleepless night. in the morning one of the boys from the tour woke up with a black face from all the coal dust that had blown in the window! haha. after arriving in xi'an we had a very busy day. first we wen...

so i just typed out a big long entry and then the computer crashed and i lost it all! i even make computers in china malfunction! sigh. anyway, i am in a little restuarant with free internet access so i am taking advantage. just stuffed my face and had an amazing fruit shake (pineapple, ice and milk) yum! i survived the night train to pingyao. it was an interesting journey. it was much more crowded than i expected, each compartment had 6 beds (3 on top of each ...

hello all! been busy, busy, busy here in beijing so will try sum it up very quickly before i head to the train station to catch my 12 hour overnight train to pingyao! so excited about the train! i've joined up with my tour now, which started on sunday. everyone is really nice and friendly and our tour guide wendy is brilliant. i like talking to her and finding out more about chinese culture. she was saying how she was only allowed to have one child because of t...