Just thought you might like to know that my total number of beds stayed in count is now up to 18! I've also done 7 trains and stayed in 10 different hostels! Just a little fact of the day :) It's beautiful weather here in Guangzhou again today and I actually feel like I'm on holiday, it's about 28 degrees at highest and our hostel is overlooking a huge river with the city ( that's bigger than hong kong ) the other side, if that were the sea instead I'd actually...

Shanghai, 8th - 14th November - We didnt arrive in shanghai until about 9.30 at night but for once, arriving at a new city late at night wasnt an issue, in fact, i'd advise it. We got a taxi from shanghai train station and as soon as we left the terminal we were greeted by a sea of high rise buildings, neon lights and busy roads, exactly the hustle and bustle i was expecting and looking forward too, we were all glued to the windows! I cant begin to describe to ...

Wuhan - 5 - 8th November After a dodgy 5 and a half hour bus journey into Wuhan, we fit a be lost but eventually found our hostel (pathfinder Wuhan) tucked down a side street, dumped our bags in and headed out for food. It looks like a really good, lively city and we even found a Muslim restaurant for dinner at 10.30 at night! Feeling pretty fresh since we'd just spent most of the day sitting on buses and since it was friday night, Az and I headed our in search...

By 7.30 this morning we were passing through the Qutang gorge, the first of the 3 gorges, and even though it was hugely misty and raining, we all stood on the top deck and watched the fantastic gorge walks come, then disappear into the fog. It was really impressive but could have been so much better had the sun been out and we could actually see the tops of the amazing mountain range and gorges surrounding us! The Qutang gorge is only 8 km long and is home to the...

We were woken up early this morning with Chinese music that was being piped through our own little speaker, just above our beds. Crap music, a chinese man speaking very broken english, and it was 6.45.....gooood morning!We wer'nt feeling tip-top as you can imagine, but crawled into the shower and attempted to put the room back together, grabbed some brekkie consisting of eggs toast and chicken sausages and got ready for our first venture off the boat. After s...