Mon 1st - We arrived in Beijing safely after spending 16 hours on a train. We were expecting the train to be quite uncomfortable as we were in a hard sleeper cabin and these were not good on the Vietnam trains. But the cabins were surprisingly good. The beds weren't too hard and there was a fair bit of headroom on each of the bunks. The carriage...

Beijing. We have finnished our traveling in 'rural' china. a small city here has 4million people! that is a lot! Popped into the Forbidden city. Nice, but it was wet, at least it kept the hoards down to a movable minimum (of thousands). fairly impressive palace, bit odd as you can't really get into anywhere, but what you could see is amazing, br...

Will write more soon... Beijing: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 0851&l=c6086&id=512638516 The Olympic Sites: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 0849&l=7a863&id=512638516

Beijing Like - going to the tea multi-talent act and hiking the Great Wall Dislike -a stupid drunk that puked all over our bus, and trying to figure out where you are when you first get there, don't expect signs in English. Transportation - I took an over night train, I got the hard beds, which were ok. Its nice to get on earlier so you have som...

Hey We arrived in Beijing on the morning of the 19th on the overnight train from Shanghai. We checked in to the hotel which was two blocks from the Forbidden city and Tienanmen Square and after some breakfast we headed straight on a walking tour. The square was pretty much as expected. It was quite grey and very crowded with thousands of Chinese...

Tomorrow I find out if I can leave the country on Tuesday. I'm sure it will be an easy process of the Chinese PSB issuing me an exit visa so I can board my Beijing to Hong Kong flight on Tuesday morning at 7.50am. But who knows... everything has gone smoothly so far but I will reserve my comments until after I have that little stamp in my newly ...

Well, just had a bit of an epic. We traveled 4,300km, slept 4 out of the 7 nights on a train, wandered about in -20°C weather and dressed up like eskimos. All to see some ice. Headed to Harbin to catch their snow and ice festival, which is pretty famous. We knew it was going to be a hell of a journey, but figured our chances of ever again volunt...