Arrived in China!

NI HAO from us all!!!!
We've been in China for a week now, weather's really hot. Visited Beijing and climbed the Great Wall (tiring!), been to the Forbidden City, Summer Palace which was really beautiful and the Ming Tombs, Lama Temple and Tianenman Square. Tried lots of veggie chinese cuisine as well as pizza n chips! Experienced a lovely traditional tea ceremony and saw a fantastic Kung Fu show. Hope to try and put a couple of pics up soon, especially one of Dipak and Vedanta practising their Kung Fu on the street (well what else would you expect of them!)
Just had a 13 hour overnight train ride to Xi'an, where we'll be spending the next few days.
Above are PRITTIs thoughts !!! hey now read DIPAKs!! P uses perfect gramer with corect spelin and she just had a go at me for my lack of CHINGLISH education!! China has me surprised and gob smacked,its an AWSOME country with fantastic people and the food n beer is so cheap ! 20p a beer ! 4 quid for full breakfast for 3 n 10 quid for buffet dinner for 3!!!!!!! its clean n charming nation!! I think CHINI CHINI BHAI BHAI(those historians amongst you) is true cause they love THIS 3 INDIANS and they keep looking at us with warm smile n make us feel like CELEBRITIES!!!! The hostels are amazingly beautiful with loads of characters with courtyards full of travellers passing on their tales to each other! met 65 year old woman called ANGEL from HAWAII travelling alone!!! one gutsy woman with no fear and she even gave us her home number in case we decide to go VOLCANO chasing in HAWAII !!! another BLACK woman(40ish) from CANADA travelling alone for 6 months ,had her backpack mislaid by bus company and was left with what she was wearing ! they found her bag after 6 days!! fellow travellers helped her out for 6 days!!! there seems to be great frindships between all travellers staying in hostels!!! to be honest I feel I have been wasting my dosh on previous 5 star travels cause in 5 star place u c nothin! hear nothin! and feel nothin!
KUNG FU show was superb it was like watching 10 BRUCE LEES on stage ! I am sure BRUCE was on stage and by the way we also spotted ELVIS!!!!
TIANEMEN SQUARE(TS)!!!!! biggest square in the world full of history and spilled blood on each slab(by the way 4 the WINDIES TOUR friends now I am a full blown VEGETARIAN!!! some of you are thinking NOT AGAIN!!!!!) .For all you historian , one can not ride a bicycle on TS but fully loaded TANKS with side winder MISSILES are ok(TS massacre in late 80s).RED GURDS are mean looking and have had couple of runnin with them alreday but nothin serious.
FORBIDDEN CITY is out of this world but nothing beats SUMMER PALACE outside BEIJING!!! this palace contains a corridor thats over 700 meters long and has a big boat(40ft) made from MARBLE and it floats in the water, palace is full of temples and pagodas and we all loved it!!!
Climbed THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA!!! I got to the top with over 3000 steps(took 75 mins to get to top and 40 mins to come down) P n V turned back from half way as V was tires SO SAYS P!!!! but they both did really well(all those hours spent in GYM came in handy for me) and it is has amazing views from top!!! from top one can see the wall snaking away in to misty mountains as far as your eye can see!! it is 4000 miles long but WHY DID THEY BUILD THE DAMN THING!! cause every TOM DICK m ARRY with a toy gun just jumped over the wall and invaded China anyway for centuries includin that fellow GENGIS KHAN!!!! from OF all places MONGOLIA!!!
By the way PM in China they have re-written the history books as THE WALL is not visible from space or MOON and this was confirmed by Chinese astronots(????) in 1998!!! to be honest with you there are lots of things they will need to re-write if communism ever collapses( ITS NOT THAT I CANT SPELL, ITS THIS CHEAP CHINESE COMPUTER) One fact is being here it does not feel as though you are in a COMMI country , people seems to be going about their business just like back home ,the only difference being they cant get to vote every 4 years!!! does voting make you feel free???? It sure does to me as I told one Chinese man!!!!(to those food lovers-POT NOODLE is big in China-every one seems to carry one!!)
Going backto TS----Chairman MAOs big picturs hangs at one end of TS(as u see on telly ) -they say during his time each family at least lost one person ( I mean killed) and they still hang his pix there!!! casuse you dont see his picture any where else at all. and his PICKLED body still on view for public to SEE in middle of TS!!!! They are going to remove his body during OLYMPIC 08 from TS so that it makes CHINA look modern rather than 3rd world!!!! WHY???
Talking about OLYMPICS 08 , we went to see OLYMPIC PARK and THE STADIUM and its TRULLY AWSOME !! its in a shape of a BIRD NEST!!!( Wembley it ur heart out!!) wait till you see it next year on telly and SWIMMING POOL is like made up of lots of BUBBLES!!! Its amazing!!! for those architectes(???) amongsts you its a Norman Foster design!!
Loads of stories to tell you but I have got to go and see TERRACOTTA WARRIORS now so its buy buy(????) from us all till next time!
Almost forgot we left Beijing on 15th pm via train-13 hour sleeper train to XIAN!!! and it was a great ride with lots stories to tell but hey I am on holiday n I need another beer so I got to go

As they say here ZAIJAN