Saturday : sunny We meet up with J&N around 8:30, and went to go get some breakfast. We had a good feed, still at the same place. Then went for a wonder around the streets stopping in at a few different shops. We bought bits and pieces for our trek, including renting jackets and sleeping bags. Then went back to an ATM to get money out. It was around 12:30 and we stopped into a shop to pickup some beers to have back at the hotel garden. We left the hote...

Friday : sunny Yes that photo is of Mt Everest, it's the peak on the left. Hopefully we don't have that many clouds when we go to view Everest. Well once the noise died down we had a pretty good sleep, still coughing badly though. It didn't seem like it would be a loud place due to it's position down a laneway. We stayed in the room for a bit and listen to some podcasts and what was going on outside. When we eventually left, and went back to the restaurant w...

Thursday : sunny We got up at 4:30 for no reason this morning. After the 7/11 breaky, and the speedy taxi driver. We did the right thing and got to the airport almost 3hrs before our flight. But the stupid checking counters didn't open till 6:15am. So we waited first in line for 1.5hours, because at 6:15 they had to checkin 4 plane loads of people using three counters, and we didn't what to rush and wait in line when the counters finally opened. We had some sort...

Wednesday : sunny Well it's our last full day in china, and we are up early again. We are up way too early tomorrow too count it as a day so that's why today is our last day. China has been great, apart from the pollution since Shanghai making us cough. A strange thing that we noticed was that no one wears face masksin China. In Vietnam loads of people were, and the air was clean. They were just wearing them for sun protection. The smog was my only real beef wi...

Tuesday : overcast After another bad sleep, I got up and put a load of washing on and, then we went down for some breakfast. The hotels version of a western breakfast is two pieces of toast and a very uncooked runny egg. Leave it to Vegemite to save the day. We wanted to go see pandas today, but we were both feeling groggy and tired. Instead of catching the early bus to the pandas, we went back to our room and listened to some podcasts and I had like six cups...