, 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,,,,

Pete 

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

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

visited the christina nobel village today, happy kids with very tragic pasts. The money raised is doing great work here and it was emotional to see the dedication of all the staff. The childeren where so please to see us all and so enjoyed the small gifts we gave them ballons and stickers win the day. Tomorrow we leave Pete to China Bruce to Moscow then onto London then home to West Wales, thanks again for all your support , over and out...

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

before we drink way too much thanks to every one for the txts they have gave us lift and drive made us smile and cry even the crazy ones from the mongolian pole cat club, ps we have seen some wooden cable drums west of UB cable still on them empty in 3 weeks... Good luck stay frosty it's been a blast @

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

just entering city limits heavy rain for last 20 hours and 13c we head on to the finish line beer and hot showers. Makes Ben Hur look like an epic...@

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