It's been a whirlwind 48 hrs! Let's start back where we left off. We had just visited the great wall. The next day was a free day where we decided to go to the zoo. We were planning on going on the Monday, but then we were delayed so moved it to Friday. The zoo wasn't as impressive as we'd imagined. First you pay an admission fee, then you had to pay again to see some of the other exhibits. We did get to see the giant pandas which was our main mission, the elep...

Today was the Ming Tomb and the Mutianyu Great Wall. We met with our tour driver in the lobby at 7am, he didn't speak any English so the greeting we received was him holding up a phone to Chris which had the details of the trip for him to confirm if it was him. We then stopped about 20 mins down the road and picked up our tour guide , Justin and another tourist from New York. A male makeup artist flown out to Shanghai to do a Louis Vuitton store opening. We hea...

Well what a day! We ended up sleeping 12 hours last night and I mean SLEEP! I've never been soo tired in my life! We started the day the traditional Australian way, with what resembled cornflakes, but I don't think they were. There was the option for an eastern breakfast but after seeing it was fried rice, lettuce and noodles I couldn't stomach that that early in the morning, Chris managed some noodles but ended the meal with toast and jam. The best part of th...

Nǐ hǎo Beijing!! Exhausted but happy to be in Beijing we braved the local taxi service and got a guy who spoke no English at all and drove like a manic! Panic set in when you don't have to wear seat belts, people don't indicate to change lanes...kinda like qlds but worse, and then our driver starts texting and phoning our hotel to get directions. His happy smile and nodding letting us know he now knew the way. My my the drivers in Beijing are scary and what's...

Nǐ hǎo Guangzhou!!! We arrived into Guangzhou at 4am Brisbane time and because of the delay had missed our connecting flight to Beijing. They promptly herded us onto a bus and drove to a quiet and deserted part of the city to a motel for 2 hrs before getting back on the bus and going back to Guangzhou airport for our next flight. The beds were rock solid, no aircon and when you has a shower it drenched the toilet as well. Jetlag was starting to set in and sti...