In Guillin there is a small town called Yangshou out in the countryside. It is the most amazing place, even though it was cold and wet, but I loved it! There's just mountains and rivers surrounding the town and it's so beautiful and peaceful. My favourite place so far. Went on a bike ride through the mountains and had lunch at Farmer Tang's house. We climbed Moon Mountain as well but it was cloudy so couldn't see a lot. Did a cooking class, which was really fun...

Got to Xi'an City, still very cold. Went to a restaurant the first night and tried loads and loads of different dumplings. Went to see the Terracotta warriors which was really cool. They have 3 massive pits which they've uncovered and the one has 6000 soldiers in. They were made 2000 years ago for an emperor which is buried and the idea was to put all these underground to protect the emperor. They were only uncovered about 40 years ago and every single one was c...

Travelled up to Beijing from Shanghai on an overnight train, which took 13.5 hours. Let's just say that was interesting! Went to the Summer Palace the next day, which was really good. Apparantly a place where emperors went for holidays or something and it over looks a lake which was really nice. On the second day in Beijing I met my tour group who are all lovely. We went to the great wall which was amazing! Was freezing but hot after climbing a million steps to...

It's my last day in Shanghai today and it's been a good week. Jason who I used to work with, showed me the Good Baby factory in Kunshan and helped me find my feet. The factory I think is the biggest in China and they had so many workers. It took a bit of getting used to but I'm quite settled now and made some friends:) The Bund is really cool, which is the side of the river which looks over at all the new part of Shanghai and the buildings are amazing. Went up t...