OK, woke up at 5.30am to the end of monks chanting. i cannot even describe the sheer volume of it! ran to the moth infested, giant uber daddy longlegs and cockcroach bathroom for an immense diahreeah session. nice. Got bitten by mosiees again. Evil! was under the damn net all night..get up and spritz the deet all over.. squat doen for the loo and they bite the only place i havnt sprayed with bug spray. not happy. 6.00am met dominique (french canadian) for some ...

After an amazing power shower and a breakfast of sponge we were off on the bus again This time to Leshan to see the Grand Buddha. Its situated on the edge of a river built in a groove in the cliff. We got there and were suprised to see the amount of tourists that were there but i guess as its now the biggest Buddha in the world, its going to be a big tourist attraction. Apparently the biggest was in Afgahnistan but the Taliban destroyed it. Typical!! We starte...

Ok another awful overnight train that consisted of way to much noise from the locals and a very ill feeling of motion sickness. We arrived in Chengdu at 5.30am to a welcoming sight of rain. It was cool and refreshing. Our hotel was only a short distance away which was good and luckily we could check in pretty much straight away. Then after a quick breakfast of rice and sponge cake, we were off to see the Pandas. We arrived and Stoney led us straight to the firs...

OKay, so here is a quick blog of the last few days. we are soo busy its really hard to update day by day :( monday 18th - we trekked the great wall! its was.. unbelivable, nothing u could capture in a photograph. the sheer size and the beutiful sourroundings..wow is all i can say. it was so steep, it is embarressing how unfit we both are. we were on a tight schedule with our trip, we had 2 1/2 hours on the wall. so we walked towers 6-14 in the daytime and it was...

Nicole fell asleep last night to the sound of our neighbour pleasuring himself! we awoke briskly at 5am and outside was an amazingly cool tempreture as it had rained loads!!!! @hongquio airport nicole had her luggage sifted through because she looks like a terrorist..or because she packed some suspicious looking device, who knows. we the went on to what nicole describes as 'the death plane'. they literalkly did not put the breaks on until we hit the ground..it w...