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...

28/09/2010Weary warriors . . .My eyes were playing up from the train air, so as it was 5amish we sat in mcdonalds til 7ish. We checked our bags in at the station and jumped on a bus to the terracotta warriors. We did the tombs backwards, which actually worked out for the best, as the first couple were just rubbled bits of the warriors in the digging sites. It wasn't what I expected but you basically walk into a building covering the digging sites and look over a ...

27/09/2010Take two . . .I go up at 9ish, Laura got up at 6 and went to the summer palace. I went for a wander and left a note saying I would meet her at 3 to go for our train.On my wander I managed to explode half a litre of tomato juice all over my left boob, in my white boob tube top. It looked like my boob had exploded with blood, so people were staring anyway as I wasn't in the touristy bit, coz of what I was wearing, coz I was singing in the street to my ipo...