Better late than never...

THE JUMP!!!

"Do you have what it takes?"

Macau, Monday August 13th 2007 (not a Friday).
Macau tower's 61st floor is the location, 233 meters into the air.
The temperature is 29.8 C with a wind speed of 14.8 kmph south west.

The Missiom: Jump from the worlds highest Bungy platform at 233 meters above ground

Why Live On The Edge... WHEN YOU CAN JUMP OFF!

Gungzhao, Peter & Eddy, to Hong Kong and Macau!

Pictures before the story Eh...
(But the story will follow)

I can see her vag... Dirty pole (Just kidding) :P

Well, the last psot being from the norm with solely pictures i guess i better put in some writing!

Since leaving Datong we set course for the wonders of the Teracotter army in Xi'an, arriving and spending two nights at the bell tower hostel, we shopped, explored super huge shopping centres, explored the area, heck, we even managed to convince some shop workert to start dismantling entire shelving racks all in the name of a lost magnet...

But anyway, our real reason for being there was the plant pot army, however after taking some local busses we arrived, paid our way in, then bluntly, confronted with a giant roofed pit containing a few hundred of the teracotter warriors. Slightly dissapointed we returned to Xi'an a few hours later and decided to ease our unrest wth some retail therapy and a trip to a strange chinese club... Mirko then made friends with some locals who, finding out our origin, continued for the following hour or so about nothing other than manchester united. YAWN!!!

The next and last day in Xi'an saw us all splitting and doing our own things, Miika, Mirko and Cherry heading off together, me exploring more shops, small markets, haggling over small pot bellied buddahs and finally completing the latest harry potter instalment over an iced vanilla latte in a strangely shaped starbucks!

Departing overnight we arrived in our destination of Chengdu, where we have been based the last three nights four days, exploring (kind of) on the first, visiting the pandas (Sooo amazing and amazingly lazy Ol) on the second not to mention purchasing the latest movie releases on dvd... the next entailed our depart from miika and cherry, who have now continued forth upon their own path of adventure seperate from myself and mirko.

The 'Grand Buddah' himself!

The third day also encompassed a trip to the famous 'Grand Buddah' via a series of local busses and transport, and funnily enough, bumping into two Polish girls (Anna and kasia) whom i had met some time ago randomly in the middle of the Mongolian Gobi desert... Small world. So visiting the buddah with the girls we returned to Chengdu via a jet propelled rickshaw (yes it really was), the no 13 bus and then a 2hour long distance bus bound for Chengdu west bus station!

Moments before the Rickshaw gained its rocket booster!

And finally today, lazing in on our first lie in for about a week, we later set out for the Wenshu monk temples to meet Anna and Kasia, meeting up we explored the Monistery and its gardens, rescued an inverted turtle before eating in a vegiterian resteraunt (allegidly), despite being very tempted to order either the 'spring rain bamboo' or the appealing 'pheonix of the moon' dishes, we settled on garlic prawns... (We got a mass of lobster and noodles soaked in ginger...).

Kasia in the Free Life Garden!

And now after checking out the girls hostel, simm's hostel, we chatted on politics and the eu before we said our goodbyes and they left for their flight.

Simms Hostel!

But now were back at the loft (our very modern and always lively hostel) whiling away the time before our 22:30 two day tarin ride to Gungzhao!

So, a few days before my next post... enjoy the quiet! ;)

Danny!
xxx

You've just got to love that Chinglish!!!

Xi an, its army of potted warriors and the Panda's of Cheng Du!!!

OMG... I can post a blog in china!!!

Welcome to the first Chinese blogspot post!...

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!

Living life the Mongolian way!

Well, i believe i left you back in Russia's town of Irkutsk, weve since traveled to the land of Mongolia, and its capital Ulan Batar. Which was fun as we travelled on a two day train with our Finnish friends, an Italian named Nico, a Brazilian lass, a man named Jesus and his pet Flamingo Mario... And yes trhats the truth.

After a vodka fueled night we arrived into UB got ourselves overnight stay, although as we arriver at 6am we chilled on the sofa drinking tea and watching cnn and a man dressed as an alligator before the cable blew, so in went my 8movies in one dvd, which we were fine with until i switched on the kettle and it blew the power too the whole building! (how many languages can you say whoops in???). Oh and managed to watch the transformers movie... was soooooo COOL!!!

Then began our 6night 7day desert treck through the gobi desert, the gang plus Heban (a korean traveler) it was full of fun, horse rides, suicidal goats, star gazing, korean wrestling, camels (oh the pain) Mongolains, nasty buiscuits and of course lots and lots of sand!!! (we even climbed to the top of some perfect Dunes)

Desert toilets are also fun! (this being an advanced model)

The gobi was surprisingly fun ill admit, chasing sand twisters, sleeping inside woolen Ger tents, sleeping on the floor, getting eaten by desert mice, and even playing doctors with a sick mongolian baby (ok that one was a little more serious). But all in all its been pretty worthwhile! Heh, youd be surprised the things you can amuse yourself with in the middle of knowhere!

One noght we gopt lucky with our Ger... we got an electric light!!!

Off to Beijing next, lovely multiple day journey on the trains yet again!

Such is life!

Danny!!!
xxx
Sorry about the random photos... cant load up the images so have no idea what im uploading till its on here!!!!