Last day...just killing time before I catch my flight. Its been a wonderful time and met some amazing people.

3 days left..its going to be hard to leave china behind. Tonight we are going for cooking lessons and tomorrow catching the night train to Hong Kong then sadly back home. Thanks for all your messages, I enjoyed reading them and keeping in touch; hope you have enjoying my pictures. I have not had much time to update my journal..will catch up once I am home. Take care and see you soon m

I arrived in 30 C of Beijing's afternoon heat. After meeting Eric in the Vancouver airport, we got our arranged ride to the hotel.Eric is on the same tour as me and we met on Gaps travel blog; just happen to be on the same flight. First impressions... very clean although the air smells mildly of car exhuast. Lots of high rise buildings from all eras, some interesting artictecture. We decided to wander around to get acustomed to the time change and ended up at th...