Alex Goes To China

Jo and I are back in Beijing for the next few days. The flight from Guilin airport was a a quick 3 hours and now we are enjoying our favourite Chinese city before heading to Hong Kong for a 9 hour stop over on Monday and then back to Melbourne on Tuesday.

We are quite tired from our adventurous cycling, rafting and swimming around and in the lakes of Yangshuo. So we are resting, eating and doing a bit of last minute shopping before we return. Today I bought a pair of high powered binoculars that are about 50cm long. They will make an excellent tool for my amateur astronomy.

Jo seems to have some hayfever, but its nothing rest wont fix. Its been such an amazing trip. Everything has gone according to plan, well almost. And the things that didn’t have been amazing too.

China has so much to offer a ‘foreigner’. It is new and old. Politically rich with a vibrant community of ethnic groups and diverse agendas. It is also politically difficult, with its communist regime still all powerful.

If you ever get a chance to visit China, make sure you visit Beijing and Yangshuo, they for me are the best places I know of. I have alot of pictures from Yangshuo, I will upload some of them when I have time.