Author: Josh

So we finished up in Tiger Leaping Gorge and took a minibus back to our starting point, Lijiang, which is a small city about 2 hours away from the Gorge. Lijiang’s old town has been world heritage listed by UNESCO and we went back to the same hostel we stored our luggage at, which is…

Hi everyone… we’ve been out of internet range for a few days but we’ve just added 3 entries, in reverse chronological order (newest first…). So please scroll down to the last one you read and start from there.. We’re on our way to Kunming, then Guilin, then Yangshou, via train and bus, so our next…

So we flew out of Chengdu at 7AM and into Lijiang. From the airport we took a bus into the centre of Lijiang, then a cab out to the Old town where we’d booked a hostel. We stored our luggage at the hostel and heading by cab straight to the bus station. It was 10:42 and we split…

ok so when we first came through Chengdu a few days ago, we arrived by train and took a 15-20 minute cab ride through the city to the bus station. On the way, we commented that the place looked like a real craphole… it didn’t have any character, and there were 3 KFCs  visible from…

… unpunched. For those of you that didn’t read the last entry (and I’m deeply hurt by that by the way), Penny mentioned that after our less than convenient 28 hour train/bus combo to get here, I vowed that if this place sucked, I would punch myself in the groin.

Hello everyone…. I’m writing this from the Sheraton hotel in Jiuzhaigou. We spent the last day and a half traveling from Xi’an, via overnight sleeper train, which is pretty comfortable (except for all the people smoking), then an all day bus (which was surprisingly comfortable). But before I go into that…

Penny is sitting next to me while I type this… so technically it’s an update from us both. Our second day in Beijing was cool, but we’re ready to move on and we’re leaving for Xi’an via overnight train in a few hours. Anyway first we have a couple of quick admin items, which we…

So we arrived in Beijing to find the airport completely empty, which surprised us both.. I mean really empty. There were the 100 odd people from our flight and that’s it.. you could hear a pin drop, which was the last thing I expected to find anywhere in China. We took Beijing’s awesome (and user…

Just a quick one to say we got to Beijing safe & sound. We’ll go into more detail tomorrow when we’re not exhuasted, but basically, we got lost and saw a lot more of Beijing by foot than we should have, given we’re hiking 10KM of the great wall tomorrow. We’ll find a proper internet…