First stop - The Great Wall! Some thing we had always dreamed of seeing! And then straight into Beijing where we spent a few days in this wonderful city!
Everyone enjoyed it and there was a million things to do (we could have spent a week here easily)! and then it was onto Chengdu to see the Terracotta Warriors and Lijiang to see the Panda's! I think it's safe to say that China was thoroughly enjoyed by all!
Then we hit the HEAT of South East Asia! All back in our summer gears we enter Laos and our our first port of call was Luang Prabang, a lovely little village in the mountains which prepared us well for something we haven't really seem since Turkey - other tourists! Obtaining our Vietnamese visas here we continued on to Vang Vieng where some choose to take part in the tubing, rock climbing and others lazed or cycled around the town.
And then it was onto Vietnam! Wow! What a place, the food! the people! the hats! and THE SHOPPING! It was shopping heaven and all of us had dresses, suits and even shoes tailor made to fit like a glove in a matter of hours! Nothing was too much for them and they could create or copy any style you chose and it was all cheap, cheap, cheap!
Back to the beaches for the first time since Turkey, it is heaven to have time to work on the tan and relax a bit - now that we are on the 'home straight' the trip is just flying by and it really feels more like a 'holiday' than an expedition for sure and we are loving it!
Off to Cambodia next...!
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| The Great Wall of China! |
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| Beijing! |
Everyone enjoyed it and there was a million things to do (we could have spent a week here easily)! and then it was onto Chengdu to see the Terracotta Warriors and Lijiang to see the Panda's! I think it's safe to say that China was thoroughly enjoyed by all!
Then we hit the HEAT of South East Asia! All back in our summer gears we enter Laos and our our first port of call was Luang Prabang, a lovely little village in the mountains which prepared us well for something we haven't really seem since Turkey - other tourists! Obtaining our Vietnamese visas here we continued on to Vang Vieng where some choose to take part in the tubing, rock climbing and others lazed or cycled around the town.
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| Monks in Laos |
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| Laos |
And then it was onto Vietnam! Wow! What a place, the food! the people! the hats! and THE SHOPPING! It was shopping heaven and all of us had dresses, suits and even shoes tailor made to fit like a glove in a matter of hours! Nothing was too much for them and they could create or copy any style you chose and it was all cheap, cheap, cheap!
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| Vietnam |
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| Feng having her dress made and fitted |
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| Fishing boats |
Back to the beaches for the first time since Turkey, it is heaven to have time to work on the tan and relax a bit - now that we are on the 'home straight' the trip is just flying by and it really feels more like a 'holiday' than an expedition for sure and we are loving it!
Off to Cambodia next...!
