Today I got to Xian in the morning, first I had a wonder around and found an area called the muslim quater it has many market type stalls selling a wide range of goods from food to fake clothes and Rolex's. There is also a wall around the city which you can go up onto it gives you quite a good view of some parts of the city and it is a good walk...I also rented a bike and rode the 14km around the walls twice.... read more

Today I went to see the Great Wall at a place about 60km from Beijing which was called Baddaling. The wall is very impressive and at some parts it is extremly steep, I mannaged to walk about 2km along the wall and found an area with afew less tourists but I went with a Tour and our time there was coming to an end...I think if you had the time along the wall would be great for hiking at parts it is very steep and there are lots of ups and downs.... read more

Today was the first full day in Beijing, it is a really great city defiantly near the top of the list although I’ve still not seen enough to say which cities it is better than. First off I had agreed to meet someone from the train and we would look around the Forbidden City together. I first went to Tiananmen Square, it is very large and is flanked on each side by 2 impressive buildings ‘The Great Hall of the People’ and ‘the National Museum’ in the north is the Forbidden City and in the south is Mao Mausoleum. While waiting for my friend outside the Forbidden City, I was approached by 2 groups of Chinese who wanted to take their picture with me. Which was kind of strange but I guess it’s a Novelty to ... read more

Today we are travelling across Mongolia. The border crossing between Russia and Mongolia was quite hard it was at night and took many hours so it was quite tiring, you get lots of forms to fill in some of which have no English on…I had to get help from the Chinese girls who knew alittle Mongolian and then let the other English people know. The scenery of Mongolia seems very different from that of Russia, it is much more barren with very few trees there are some nice hills and you get to see quite afew farmers herding cows or sheep along the route. My French Roommate got off at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s Capital where she is planning to stay for 3 months. Also a lot more people got onto the train at Ulaanbaatar and most of ... read more

Today the sceanary was similar to what I had seen the day before although it had a light covering of snow. This entry is mainly just to show afew pictures from the day.... read more