Wow - what a mad and stunning place! Made the bus journey and numb bum worth every minute. Hidden in the mountains and around 400km (yep only 400km and it took 14 hours!) north of Chengdu are 2 of …
Bus to Jiuzhaigou
Whilst in Chengdu we found out that it was still possible to take a bus out to the national park Jiuzhaigou, an area that is just north of the main epicentre of last May's huge earthquake - the route …
Chengdu
Another day another train journey! Seems like we are ploughing straight through China at the moment but time (well bureaucracy and politics) dictates and we need to get to Chengdu in order to start …
Terracotta Warriors
I can't do anything other than make this sound like a brief history lesson but I promise to try and keep it brief! Around 50km outside of Xi'an city the year before I was born, 1984, a farmer who was …
Xi’an
A night spent with a Chinese couple at very close quarters on a train who tried all night to out snore one another finally came to an end around 6:30 when the train's radio system burst into life! …
Pingyao
After a few hours broken sleep on the night train out of Beijing we had to change trains in the town of Tiayuan, where it seemed that this portion of the 10 million train travellers had never seen 2 …