, Hong Kong
I've now arrived in hong kong after 9250 miles by road, 1000 miles by rail and 1500 miles by air. Its raining
Beijing, China
On the airport express to catch my flight to hong kong, my 1st flight in 12000 miles of travelling.
Beijing, China
My plan tonight was to have some peking duck for supper. However they were v busy and the price was a rip off. So i found a Tibet cafe were i had a fantastic mushroom curry. Not sure now if they'll let of out of the country!
Beijing, China
couple of days in beijing seeing the sights. Off to hong kong tomorrow, train to busy, so decided to fly.
Beijing in the Rain
Hi
After my 36hrs train journey across the Gobi and into China, I'm currently in my Hutong Courtyard Hotel in DongCheng, Beijing. Bit of a nightmare finding this place as the Beijing Hutong's are tiny allyways and my Chinese itsn't up to reading the streetnames. It was also raining cats and dogs so not a taxi to be had..... but I'm now dry and sent some of my very dirty clothes off to the laundry!!! I also forgot to sat that, Bec was good enough to book the hotel for me... but forgot the time difference, so I was supposed to arrive on Fri night .... which meant they'd released my room!!! after some discussion everything was fixed.
Plan today is  to check out how I'll get down to Hong Kong, visit the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Sq and try to avoid the rain....
 China is actually very refreshing after all the countries we have driven through..... there is more Western stuff here... shops, food, McDonalds, etc then any of the countries since we left Europe. The biggest shock is that I'm now a normal Tourist, in the same catagory as all the fat Americans I've just had breakfast with,,,,
PeteÂ
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Just boarded the trans siberian to beijing. Bruce about to fly home via Moscow. 34hrs to Beijing, time to relax and not drive
Ovorhangay, Mongolia
we are on the road to ub. 200 miles on tarmac, so hope to arrive this afternoon. Cold and raining, but v excited to be so close to our finish. Hotel, hot shower and beer
Altay, China
hotel and wash. Fuelled and stocked for the desert run to Bayanhongor .
Govi-Altai, Mongolia
set up camp in the desert. Interesting day yesterday, we were joined by a spanish team.. We them managed to knock their sump off. Stayed with them until local towed them away. Few miles down the road found a danish team with a broken front strut. Managed to get a local welder to weld the bracket back on, paper clip to replace the broken circlip and good as new. Dark by the time we finished, so setup camp. In convoy to Altay. Roads are ridged sand so we are constantly shaken and dusty.
Hovd, Mongolia
one new tyre, inner tube fitted to the other. Car full of fuel. Lets see how close to Altay we get. Will blog when we have signal.
