Woke up nice and early and caught our tour bus to the great wall and ming tombs and not to mention its COLD! The good part is that the pollution fog has lifted and now clear blue skies! Seen our first gas station: gas is around $1.50 a litre. We arrived at the Ming tombs to a cold welcoming. Some very nice views and we visited the last emperors tomb: he was a bad emperor so the government chose to use his tomb as a viewing tomb. The drive through the country...

So another warm day in Beijing...not. The pollution cloud finally lifted today but we will start from the beginning. So we got re routed to shanghai and then the next day got our flight to the capital. Once we left Beijing airport we started our journey to our hotel. When we got dropped off from the shuttle bus we were both overwhelmed with both the size and the crazy traffic; let's just say pedestrians don't have the right off way. After waking up we start...

Oh Boy so we finally made it to china after a very long 15 hour flight. We couldn't land in Beijing due to the bad fog conditions so we had to fly to shanghai so by the time we waited in so many countless lines listening to old Chinese men yelling non stop. We finally made it to our hotel which was a 40 min bus ride from the airport leading to more long lines and us asking what the hell people were saying. So a few hours of sleep on a rock hard bed in a very col...