Hello! So far so good in China. After Xi'an and the Terracotta warriors we took a 13 hour train journey to Chengdu. This I can say was quite an experience, but we got to see some beautiful scenery on the trip. In Chengdu we visited the Panda reserve, YAY!! The Panda's I can say were just as cute as I expected, very laid back creates. And when I say laid back I mean laid back, litterally many of them were laying on their backs just munching on bamboo. The 6 mont...

The last few days have been brilliant, have packed so much into a small amount of time. We have visited the great wall of china which was very very difficult, a lot of steep steps... the wall basically follows the inclines of the surrounding mountains. Have also visited Tian'namen square, the forbidden city, the summer palace. I am now in Xi'an which in my opinion is a prettier city than Beijing. We took a bicycle ride along the city wall, which was a brilliant ...

So we have arrived in Beijing safe and sound. The flight was long but interesting, we literally left with the sun setting in the west as we headed for new adventures to a new sun rise in the east. Coming in over China, we could see vast differences in the geology (boring I know), one of the most interesting things I noted as we were flying over the mountaineous land leading to beijing was the steps cut into the steep hills, the unmistakeable pattern of paddy fiel...