We decided that we would have a lie in and catch up on sleep ahead of our overnight hard train seat to Beijing tonight that neither if us were looking forward to! I ended up getting up at 9 anyway as I couldn't sleep and wet down to eat breakfast, joined by Jenny about 90 minutes later. After she had eaten, we put our bags in storage and headed out for our last day in Beijing. On the menu today, the forbidden city and tiannamen square. First we did the city a...

Day two in Beijing! Today was the day of the wall! We got up early and after speaking to a spanish guy called George in the hostel yesterday (who told us about the Icy place he'd tried to go to, made difficult as it had snowed the previous week, and then showed us various photos of his unsuccessful trek) we knew which area we were headed for. One of the farthest points you can go, but in its original form, if not a bit if a scramble in places. Sold! We caugh...

We arrived in Beijing at about 9am and after mooching about and ignoring the non official scouts trying to charge ¥150 to get to our hostel, we joined the taxi queue got a taxi who took us through beijings packed wide streets to our hostel, a good 45 minute drive away. The hostel had two warrior statues like the terra cotta ones at the door, and above a big blinking sign 'Happy Dragon Inn'. Walking in the girls spoke excellent English and uograded Jen and I fo...