Thursday we arrived in Xian at 12:00 after our 16 hour train journey. We were greated by our guide Sasha and taken to our hostel, we took showers and went for lunch then met again at 15:30 to head to the City Wall. Xian Ancient City Wall is 12 metres tall and 8.5 metres in length, it's purpose was to store abundant food supplies and for the emperor to take time to fortify the city and unify the other states, we rode tandem bikes along the top of the wall which wa...

Monday we arrived in Chengdu at 14:00 after a 25 hour train journey, we met our tour guide Kid and caught the MRT to our hostel, we spent the afternoon relaxing, showering and washing clothes. At 19:00 we went to a restaurant to try the famous 'hot pot' which is a sort of Chinese Stew, consisting of a simmering metal pot of stock at the center of the dining table, ingredients such as thinly sliced meat, vegetables, wontons, dumplings and seafood, are placed into ...

Wednesday we woke early to check out and meet our group at 7:00, it was very daunting at first, the group is very big, 21 of us in total. We set off straight away, following the group leader Evan, to catch the tram up to Victoria Peak for our briefing, we all had to introduce ourselves, there's 2 Germans, 2 Kiwis, 4 Aussies and 12 British including ourselves. There is no chance we are going to remember everyone's names!!! Everyone seems really cool and a lot of p...