My turn to write! Yes, I'm still here... I was meant to fly home yesterday but the lure of a week's diving with Kev from Payar was just too irrestible. And also, I couldn't turn down the opportunity to see how the wonderful island of Phi Phi is doing in its recovery process from the tsunami. Gem and I were both here last year and both desperately wanted to come back. The island's doing well, there's alot of construction going on and all the volunteering pro...

hello! from the land of gorgeous beaches, green curries and smiling people! yes weve left the open plan toilets behind (although heads up to the Price clan, Becks may need counselling on that one, its mentioned alot! sorry) so this is just a wee catch up i guess only i've forgotten where we were up to that always helps doesnt it ........ oh well i'll check later and fill you in, what i have no problems remebering is the last few days, our exit from ch...

Can't believe Gem didn't mention the pandas!!!!!!Once upon a time... in a land far, far away... an owl hooted, a monitor lizard wailed and a monkey screamed... and two theoretically grown up women ran around like 4 year olds around the pandas. (that probably only makes sense to a couple of people so sorry everyone else!)The Panda Breeding centre just outside Chengdu is one of about 75 centres in China aimed at breeding giant pandas of which there are only about 1...

greetings guys! well were in a place called dali now which i think its safe to say weve both fallen in love with, very relaxed with only the odd person atttempting to drag you into there shop rather than the whole street!! think our bags may be a bit heavier when we leave though, oops far too much to buy!! so the saga behind getting here ....... ANOTHER train, only this time we got cocky and decided on hard sleeper tickets thinking how much difference ...

Hello everybody! We've survived a very long 31 hour train journey with no food apart from "Hello Kitty" biscuits and very unattractive looking and tasting Chinese Pot Noodles that may have been grown in a petri dish and are now in Chengdu in the Sizchuan area of Western China. The train journey was that long that Gem was convinced she saw two elephants out of the window! If anyone could please confirm that elephants even exist in North West China, I would be...