China

Ask me what the highlight of our Trans Mongolian railway trip was and I’ll tell you it was Beijing. Sure, I had a great time at Naadam in Mongolia and …

When we were planning our trip on the Trans Mongolian train journey, Beijing was one of the stops I was most excited for. We did some incredible things in Beijing, …

We spent 4 days in Beijing at the start of our Trans Mongolia railway trip. We saw some of the top sights, ate a lot of good food, and sweated …

China may be renowned for its bustling, smog-filled cities but look a little further and you’ll see that there are plenty of beautiful natural landscapes just waiting to be explored. …

China 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 …

The town of Yangshuo China was described in our Lonely Planet guide as a “once-peaceful settlement” now a home to “pole-dancing bars” and it was at that point I was …

Travelling in China independently 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. I just wish we’d …

“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 …

Planning a trip to China but don’t want to visit the super touristy cities of Beijing and Shanghai? You’re in the right place! Our first trip to China was following …