If you think that the roads in China are mainly broken dirt roads then you have certainly been watching too many Hollywood movies. China, for me, has one of the best road infrastructures in the world with most roads being less than a couple years old. Why? Well cheap labour costs and cheap material costs …
For those who don’t know Zhangjiajie are the mountains that Avatar was inspired by. They are the most spectacular mountains I have ever seen. As my friend Cass and I who I have met travelling in China in 2013 set off from Kunming on the gruelling 20 hour hard sleeper trip we sat at the …
After catching a flight from Xian to Lijiang and getting a bus from the airport into the city centre I got a taxi to the Timeless Hostel. I was able to get my first real impression when the taxi took me through the city centre of Lijiang. It felt different to other areas of China …
As with everything in life, if you go to seek adventure, you will get adventure and being 20 years old just makes the whole thing so much better. What happened during this hike was totally numbing and I’ve only realised after the whole experience how close I was to being seriously hurt. I booked a …
I know I know! I haven’t posted for a while. A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks and I’ve been really really really busy and tired. Firstly, I have been rather unwell for the past 3 weeks and is only now starting to show small signs of improvement. I woke up …
Learning is going fairly well. What I have noticed is that my level of proficiency is coming in stages. I seem to have got the first stage where I feel I’m able to talk and make some conversation which the teachers. The second stage would be better understanding, however, I don’t feel I’m there yet …
I went to a different section of the Great Wall than to where I went last time. This one was closer and therefor more touristy. The views however did not disappoint as you can see from the video and the pictures. As its rather difficult to get here on your own I thought I’d save …
Can’t believe the first week is already done and over with! It’s gone far too fast and it’s been such a good week. I have learnt so much more than I could have ever imagined and seen a different side of China. I will at some point get pictures of the school, however, this week …
So you’re probably wondering what on earth I’m eating here. Well, I’ve actually been really happy and basically been forced to immerse myself in Chinese culture and food. For breakfast I don’t eat anything since theres literally nothing to eat apart from rice and dumplings, which I really don’t feel like first thing in the …
Moved into my flat a couple of days ago, and it’s taken a while to settle in and adjust. It’s decent and slightly better than I was expecting, however, the whole place could actually be extremely nice if they bothered to take care of it and furnish it properly. It seems in China things are built and …
It was early morning and I was starving. My pronunciation of tea eggs in Chinese is terrible (Chayedan) and to avoid the embarrassment I just hurled the word tea egg at every street seller in the hopes they understood. Luckily, I found it myself. The annoying thing about breakfast in China is that it finishes …
Today was going great until I decided to go and get some fruit from the shop and got stopped by 2 middle-aged “business men” from Shanghai. I was speaking to them for a good hour whiles they were explaining the history of Beijing and how they were on a conference trip. After an hour or …