Day 1.
5AM starts are actually the worst. As are delayed Melbourne to Sydney flights. And 10 and a half hour flights from Sydney to shanghai. After a ridiculously long flight from shanghai to Beijing we got to our hotel at 12:30 am chinese time (4:30 am Australian time.)
Day 2.
God, my memories so stretched. Its been a while. We went to Tian’anmen Square and lots of chinese people took photos of us. Then the forbidden city. And this one restaurant where the sinks were like chicks leaning over. It was a very ‘wat’ moment. And lots of chinese guys tried to sell us stuff, this was my first experience with hagglers so a guy pouncing on me going “YOU SO BEAUTIFUL PLS BUY MY BOOK” didn’t go down too well. Oh yeah and we went to this market that sold lots of fuct food.
Day 3.
Great wall, and our first experience with a proper market. We also went to the Olympic precinct.
Day 4.
Temple of heaven and the parkways were awesome. Chinese people are so cool.
Pearl Markets & a peking duck restaurant where everyone was celebrating Halloween.
Day 5.
We visited the summer palance and the hutongs (back streets of china), and took an overnight train ride to Xian.
Day 6.
We arrived in Xian, and as soon as we got to the hotel to dump our baggage we had to pack an overnight bag to go to Zhouzhi County to visit the Shaanxi Panda Centre.
Day 7.
Had the worst breakfast. Fermented tofu wtf. So glad I slept in and missed it.
Went to the Panda Center again, then went back to Xian to go to Muslim street which is a really traditional chinese market.
Day 8.
Terracotta warriors. These are such brief summaries.
Day 9.
We started our day in the park surrounding the Xian wall. We then took a 4 hour bus trip to Baoji to stay at the xinxing street kid centre.
Day 10.
Woke up at the street kid centre, went to a Taoist mountain retreat called the Longmendong Monastery.
Day 11.
This day was nuts. We went to a school in baoji and the kids pretty much mobbed us, majority of them had never even seen white people before, its was crazy and they kept asking us random questions. We then got sent home with chinese kids who could barely speak English for dinner. Crazy stuff.
Day 12.
Had a teary goodbye with the xinxing kids and took a train back to Xian. People rode around the xian wall but I couldn’t cause I cant ride a bike :D
Day 13.
Visited the big goose pagoda and took a plane to shanghai.
Day 14.
Took an underwater train, went up to the top of the tallest building in shanghai and went of a cruise ship at night.
Day 15.
We went to a town that was like the chinese version of venice and caught chinese trains
Day 16.
We went to our final market and some place with lots of chinese mannequins.
Day 17.
Home time!
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