Back from China.

We covered a lot of ground in our 2 weeks in china..

• Beijng - forbidden city, temples, shopping, eating.
  
• Datong - hanging temple and buddhist caves
  
• Xian - teracotta army, pagodas, drum tower.
• Kaifeng - Night Market (mystery meat on a stick), Iron Pagoda
  
• Suzhou - Gardens, pagodas and shopping
• Zhouzhang - a very pretty water town - canals and bridges
  
• Shanghai - amazing
  
• Tai Shan - a mountain of steps
• Qingdao - not very nice really.
• Great wall - on a misty day.

To get around we travelled by train - hard sleeper, hard seat, soft sleeper and the new Japanese-style Bullet trains; coach - overnight and sleeper coach (with bunks); and climbed a few too many steps (tai shan, great wall, bell towers, pagodas).

We never really got off the well-beaten tourist route, but all the people we met were very friendly, helpful, and curious about us. Sometimes the staring was a little wearing, and I did get my arm hair tugged to check it was real more than once.

Here's some of the better photos we took:

China 2007