The next morning we headed to the Bell and Drum Tower’s, a huge complex which marked the north axis of imperial Beijing. We managed to time it perfectly to watch […]

We are back in independant travel mode – Yay ! We headed off to our new hostel, encountering one of the many problems of relying on the Lonely Planet. Our […]

Stepping off the train into the crowded and chaotic Beijing train station was a world away from sparsely populated Mongolia. The sheer number of people combined with the heat was […]