Well, to be honest as i cant actually view my blog while im in china im going to have to guestimate that the last time i left you we were departing from Mongolias capital Ulan Batar, following on from our tour of the Gobi desert. Well since then... 
Atop a mighty sand dune!
-Travelled for two days From Mongolia into China by tarin, and for some un-beknown reason, treated somewhat like celebrities/side show whilst we were waiting in a small village for our train to beijing. (we drew more of an audience than the local festival)
The Jinning Festival... (No wonder we drew a crowd)
-Arrived in Beijing, found our accomidation at the Leo guesthouse, then set off to purchase the latest HP Book!!! We sampled copious omunts of tea, Jasmin, Dradon, Green you name it (no gunpowder to be found though), generally bumming around.
It's Grid Face!
-Spent the next day trecking around the Great wall, or as our area was known as, 'The Secret Wall", twas actually really cool, the whole part of the wall was actually old, delapidated and crumbling, a hell of a hike to reach the top but it was worth it. Crazy wildlife aswell, stupidly noisey crickets, bat shaped butterflies and oddly large snakes...
Alas, The Great Wall!!!
-The last day in beijing saw each of us splitting up to explore beijing at our own pace, unsure about what the others had planned i paid visits to the forbidden city, some massively huge funky gardens, the winterpalace, some small meiandering hutongs, a small tea shop then back to the hostel bumping into mirko and eating food.
My Tea-lady friend!
-Leaving that night we were unluckily caught up in a massive thiuunderstorm, so managing to miss our bus to the train station for our train towards Pingyao mirko and i hailed a taxi (who's wiondow wipers were well, not working whatsoever) and somehow managed to dart our way onto the train moments before it left the station. (oh what a fun night that was, sleeping on a stupidly crowded train).
Thunderstorm + Broken wiper = DOOM!!!
-And know were here in pingyao, after a local girl helped us purchase tickets to pingyao, weve spent the day in this somewhat very typical looking 'movie set' chinese village incased within a giant wall. The night called for traditional chinese massages and a well deserved sleep.
Ping Yao and some of its many lanterns!
finally on to today, weve hired bikes and will spend the day cycling until the time calls for us to depart towards our next destination, Xi'an, and the teracoter (excuse the spelling) army!
Time is drawing to a close...
Danny!
2 comments:
heyyyy dannyboy! sounds like an amazing time your having there! come home soon face! i heard u were planning 2 return earlier? yayy :D see ya soon, hannahxxx be safe yo
Nice pics, was the last one of the dog a picture of Dinner lol - Hope not
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