So – it turns out that China has it’s own little Persian/turkish region! It’s called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and it’s massive. It takes up 1/6th of China with a total area of 1.6 million square km! Western Australia is 2.5 million square km, so while it isn’t as big as WA, it is…
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Another Train, another city. From Xi’an we caught a 18 hour night train to a small Chinese city called Jiayuguan. The train left late which was great because we could enjoy some cool desert scenery the next day! We really had left China as we knew it. There were tiny mud brick like flats? They…
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From the beautiful south of China we boarded a sleeper train and headed north to the mega, yet surprisingly “chilled out” 12 million people city of Chengdu. We were lucky to share our train compartment with a man from Urumqi who spoke zero English, but was determined to communicate with us anyway (Matt loved this…
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Hello Family and Friends nice to have you here again, This post is about a fairly big trek we did in the Yunnan Province. Nothing overly crazy happened so the following is a bit of an account of the hike but the pictures are amazing as it was an astonishingly rugged and beautiful part of China. If…
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So, we have finally arrived in China! We had heard all sorts of things about China from a lot of different people. You know what I’m talking about.. But as you will see in this post, there is a quieter, chilled and incredibly beautiful part of China that will blow away all of your preconceptions…
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Hello! It’s been a few weeks since we left Bangkok and headed into China, but because I had such a great time overall (this really is a place you either love or you hate), I thought I would share a bit about what we got up to, including when Mum came over on her first…
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Sometimes it’s best to let the pictures do the talking. So here are our favourite photos from Bagan. A 1,000 year old collection of 2,200 temples and pagodas found in Central/Northern Myanmar.
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