Ok,Brace yourselves,tis going to be a long one. Yangzhou is amazing... If we had the chance i would have stayed longer. Yangzhou is a small town situated amongst hundreds of small column like mountains whixh come vertically out of the ground. Believe it or not we were staying in a hotel called Fawlty Towers, but unforunately the 24 hour train ride had taken all my wit and i couldn't think of any ways to change the letters around. We set off on a freezing mornin...

After arriving in Shanghai and finding our hotel, we headed out to the busy pedestrian shopping street. On every shop entrance was someone who said exactly the same three words: Watch, DVD, Bag! ChanChan warned us before we went that people would quitely whisper this in our ears, but this was anything but quiet. That evening we decided to go up the famous Oriental TV Tower. The views of the city at night were amazing, and as far as the eye could see there were s...

After an overnight train ride lasting 13 hours and barely getting to sleep due to witnessing the loudest snoarer i've ever heard. Seriously it was so loud he kept waking himself up every few seconds. Anyway in Xi'an (called Chian) we decided to visit the city wall which is one of the only ones still remaining. We decided to walk just one quarter of it, but as i've said before the Chinese never do anything by halves and it took us agesto walk around. Later that...

Ni How. After a frightening car ride, where the driver thought it was OK to costantly overtake on blind corners as long as they held down their horn, we arrived at the Sumatai section of the Great Wall. This is a more remote section with less vistors due to the steepness of the climb. We knew the Chinese liked to do things big, but this was just too far. We were finding it difficult walking up to it on a set path, let alone get an army up there. We'd been told ...

Hi everyone, welcome to my first blog entry... Beijing, well it can summed up in three words really: Big, Busy and a Bargain. We started our travels on thursday here and started off exploring Beijing. The last couple of days we've managed to brave the subway and go to visit Tainanmen Square. This is bascially just a place for street sellers to meet and pick out the weak looking tourists, (Jack). Later we went to Forbidden City and after taking many pictures we ...