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China may be renowned for its bustling, smog filled cities but look a little further and you’ll see that there’s plenty of beautiful natural landscapes just waiting to be explored. Many of these landscapes remained undiscovered by Western tourists as…
Continue readingChina has an extraordinarily long history so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that with that there are a lot of very, very ancient towns in China. As emperors came and went so did towns either being forgotten of transforming…
Continue readingOur Lonely Planet guidebook described the town of Yangshuo as a “once-peaceful settlement” which is now home to “pole-dancing bars” and it was at that point I was beginning to question why I’d thought it was a good idea to…
Continue readingTravelling independently in China was hard. Perhaps the hardest travelling I’ve done in a long, long time. But that’s not to say it wasn’t worth it. We’d done a bit of research before we went and had heard from others…
Continue readingDuring our two weeks in China we used the high speed trains in China to travel fairly regularly from place to place. It struck us pretty quickly that travelling by train in China is much different to travelling by train…
Continue reading“You’re going to the rice terraces in November? But there’s nothing to see”. That was the reply we’d got used to hearing when we were chatting with hosts and locals about our China travel plans. We were heading to the…
Continue readingOn our recent trip to China my boyfriend, Thom, treated himself and bought a drone which we’re now both in love with. He created this video with the drone footage we got on our adventures through the regions of Guangxi,…
Continue readingFinding budget Hong Kong hotels and hostels is tough. I know I found it tough when I was hunting for somewhere for the two of us to stay. It seemed as though everywhere was either super expensive or unbearably small….
Continue readingI recently spent two weeks travelling in China and you can see our itinerary here. China was completely different to anywhere I’ve experienced before. More so than South America even. In South America we could at least make educated guesses…
Continue readingI’m off to China and Hong Kong this afternoon and I’m SO excited! This is the longest trip away I’ve had since South America 2 years ago; even though it’s just two weeks. We’ve also had these flights booked for…
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