Hey everyone, just a quickie! Nanning is just a place we have come to in order to get a vietnamese visa and enter the country from here. There is absolutely nothing to do here except sit in the hostel and watch dvds with other travellers and play guitar hero. We went out to eat once here but yet again was unsure about the identity of the meat. As the local speciality here is dog hotpot we decided to leave it at that one time. We need some comfort food after be...

Hi all! We took the night train to Guangzhou which is South China not far from Hong Kong. There was no one to pick us up like the hostels usually do because there wasn't any so we had to book a hotel instead. Its a lot hotter down here as well, around 25C which we weren't really prepared for, so we were lugging our massive backpacks around the city in boots and hoodies! Theres not much to do here and isn't really any culture so we took a day trip to a nearby c...

Hi all! I think we have just made the biggest mistake in the world! The hard sleeper down to Chongqing on the cheapy cheapy was an absolute nightmare! We were rammed into these tiny beds like cattle and there wasn't enough room to sit up, turn over or anything! Alistair had it worse trying to crawl his 6.4 body onto a tiny top bunk! For some reason they also didn't put us in the same cabin so we were on our own. I cheered up after a while though because these re...

Hi all! Well we're currently in Xi'an which is situated about the middle of China and you may have heard of it because the Terracotta Warriors were discovered here. We made the journey down by night train which took about 11 hours. It was actually a really enjoyable experience as we chose the sleeper cabin which had comfy beds to sleep on. After tea we went to sleep, woke up and we were there so it was pretty good. However, as soon as we got on the train we upse...

Ni Hao! Hi everyone and welcome to our blog. There has been a bit of a delay in writing this because we have been so busy! We arrived in Beijing on Thursday 26th February after a 10 hour flight and first thing we did was try and check into our hostel. We got pressured into taking a tuk tuk ride to the train station and agreed the price at 30 huan (£3) after about 10 mins of this guy pedaling two of us and our massive rucksacks in a tuk tuk which was originally ...