South China Travels A month of travelling around the more tropical Southern regions of China was a welcome reward for months of saving our wages and living in a small, dull 'city' that doesn't even appear on most maps of the country. Each stage of the trip had been meticulously planned a month or two before with hostels and flights already booked. Having been talked out of exploring the remote, freezing North during our winter holiday, we decided to begin ...

Having been in China for almost 2 months now, i felt that this blog is well overdue. It is difficult to compose my thoughts over the last 8 weeks into a legible piece of prose, especially with my emmentaal-esque memory and with so many new experiences flooding my senses. To start from the top, Beijing is an amazing city. You can tell that alot of emphasis must have been put into making it look clean and presentable for the olympics as there are so many trees and...