Late again . . .Just made the bus, as we jumped on it pulled away. 12hours back to chengdu, I was feeling horrendous, I had gone to bed with a bad head and woke up with a worse one. So the journey was rather rough for me.Arriving at the hostel we stayed at before in chengdu we got our train tickets that night for guazghou, being t*** when we had orginally asked at the station the times we were told 23.50 departs arrives 5am. We thought brilliant this must b...

Chinese posing styles . . .Luxury of a taxi to huang long, where we had been warned there was snow. So at 6am I put on the whole contents of my backpack minus x pairs of knickers and two tops. So I wore, 2vest tops, 2jumpers, a shawl, period pants, 4trousers, socks with carrier bags and soggy trainers, plus panda hat. Laura wore 1top, 1shirt, 1shawl, leggings, trackies, socks, carrier bags and trainers, oh and fleece and panda hat.On the journey we passed s...

Desperate measures for desperate times . . .6am rise to enter the jiuzhaigou national park. A tip for anyone looking go, save yourself 9quid by not buying a bus ticket as you never get asked, we didnt have one and we bus hopped fine.If you look at our pics, it is beautiful. However, I would like to point out laura and I trapsed round in the peeing rain all day taking these photos. The camera makes the whole day look like glorious sunshine. But your best loo...

I should be used to this . . .13hour bus trip from chengdu to jiuzhaigou. Not much to report except me feeling ill but that's a constant dullness I have now that I try to ignore except when I suddenly feel slighty more worse, then I get over it!So as the road conditions are so terrible due to the earthquake it was a rather bumpy ride that has to be done during the day as its too dangerous at night.Thoughts on china.I do still prefer the indian and tibetan pe...

Pink, green, yellow maybe even blue pandas . . .Arrived in chengdu. Lots of pointing to my panda charm, drawing pics and copying chinese symbols into my little book with a few bus rides later, resulted in us checking into a youth hostel, finding out wolong is still closed with no pandas so we were on a bus to the panda breeding base, so seeing the pandas in enclosures.It was about 4 when we got there. Their tea time, so they were all up stuffing their big f...