Ok so me and Jon are pretty rubbish at keeping blogs so have decided to just go city by city rather than full day by day accounts as we just cant keep up, so this is what we did for the rest of our time in Pingyao,- Hired bikes and cycled to Shuanglin temple, its 7km from Pingyao. Its a really lovely buddhist temple thats 500 years old. The detail of everything was amazing, i would have loved to have seen it when it was first built and all the colours were still visable. Had our packed lunch then cycled back. it was really hot and it made me feel quite ill so spent the afternoon reading in the courtyard. Later that evening we bought our tickets to our next destination Xi'an and we had a
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