Visit to the Shanghai Art Museum with its five floors of display rooms featuring themes such as jade, bronze and paintings. Tonight, enjoy dinner at a local restaurant, followed by an acrobatic show. Travel to the canal and garden city of Suzhou, where you’ll visit a silk factory to learn …
Arrived in Xi’an this afternoon and headed straight to the hotel from the airport. Great system this small group travel – boarding passes all ready for us on arrival at airports, all grab our bags and there’s always a tour guide waiting for us at baggage claim whom we follow …
Group visit to Fengdu, known as the Ghost City for its gardens temples and statues of ghosts and devils. (Kemm and I didn’t go – ‘just another temple’ and the weather is yuk!)
A much better sleep last night and I ‘think’ I am feeling a little better. After breakfast it’s off on a shore excursion again – this time via another ferry and up the “Minor 3 Gorges” (have to admit getting a little tired of gorges now!), but in reality, irrespective …
I had a terrible nights sleep last night, turns out the lounge bar is right above our room and although Kemm was snoring like a trooper, I was kept awake by footsteps sounding like elephants above us! Ho hum, such is life. On with the day – breakfast first then …
Check out this morning – bags out at 8.30am never to be seen again! Well I guess we will but not sure when! Han luggage for our flight later today is loaded on the bus and off we wander to Tiananmen Square – Tony out in front with his cardboard …
On the bus at 8.00am and heading out of town to the Great Wall of China – a miserable day today – rain, mist, cold and all hoping that things might improve when we get to ‘The Wall’. No such luck! Not much to tell here as we eventually arrived …
The Forbidden City in the centre of Beijing is our destination this morning – it’s a dull day but no wind and a pleasant 22 or thereabouts. Our hotel is close to the venue so we set off on foot and walked into the main south gate – a massive …
Just getting there was an exercise and a half! Missed the first flight from Brisbane to Sydney (not our fault – Qantas queues are diabolical!!!! – just scraped in the next one to make a mad dash to the Sydney Shanghai flight and finally sat down and relaxed! Whew! Made …
Off the beaten track near the Eastern tip of Singapore, Changi Village is a sleepy district in contrast to the bustling city. The local beach attracts fishermen and bathers alike, especially on weekends. In the village itself, there are plenty of bargains to be found – t-shirts, electronic equipment, carpets, …
