Our Travel Blog

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…

So, we left you in Beijing….right before one of the very helpful hostel staff recommended that we catch the bus to the train station, rather than take the subway as we had planned. I’ve been on a few very overcrowded buses and they always seemed kind of fun…I’m not sure why this particular bus ride…

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…

Yes, there is a reason why I’ve posted a giant photo of my eye…I was trying to demonstrate just how cold it was today as we hiked the Great Wall. Not only did my eyelashes form icicles, so did the water in my bottle (and possibly the linings of my lungs). But with my multiple…

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…