The traffic in Beijing is crazy. It takes absolutely ages to go anywhere. Thank goodness for our little boutique hotel – The Red Wall Garden Hotel – in the middle of an old hutong district. The courtyard garden and restaurant was the perfect place to escape from the city and to just sit and enjoy […]
Everyone has seen a photo of a terracotta warrior or seen clips of the army on TV but to see the 8th Wonder of the World with your own eyes is something very special. There is always a worry when you visit somewhere so famous that it might not live up to all the hype […]
We finally got to our beds at 4 am and much to our dismay had to meet our guide, Jim, in the lobby of our lovely boutique hotel – Buddha Zen Hotel – at 8.10 am. So with only a 3 hours sleep we headed off to see the pandas. As the pandas were our […]
This section of our trip was all about seeing China’s most scenic countryside. It is also where we will be our most energetic trying Tai Chi, biking, hiking and rafting. We started off in the area’s travel hub, Guilin where we stayed the night at The White House – which was half museum and half […]
After four chilled days in Hong Kong, albeit in exhausting heat and humidity, we arrived in Shanghai which was a very pleasant 10 degrees cooler accompanied by a lovely breeze. The city was nothing like I had expected it to be. I had envisaged yet another New York or Hong Kong style city. Don’t get […]
3 weeks touring around China - May 2015
