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We hiked 8km (about 5 miles) on the Great Wall of China today….
Wow….

Since the last post we’ve climbed a mountain (albeit a small one) with the assistance of two old Chinese ladies who climbed alongside, pointing the way and the shortcuts, in the hope that we buy some postcards and drinks from them. (We did. We felt terrible that they
had to climb a mountain in order to [...]

It’s been an eventful couple of days. Since crossing into mainland China we’ve decided that Hong Kong is like China with training wheels. Sure, it’s different and exotic, but many people speak English and being in Hong Kong is a lot like being in any other, large, Western metropolitan city. After crossing to the mainland [...]

Hong Kong (7 million people) has been great. It all started with the free upgrade to the “executive suite” room with a fabulous view of the HK skyline across the harbor (we have photos) and just got better from there.
HK is a vertical city. The buildings climbs up from the harbor along steep [...]

It’s 8:15am on Saturday morning, Hong Kong time, and we’ve just arrived at our hotel after a 13 hour flight. We slept quite a bit on the plane, so our bodies are still confused but fairly(?) well rested.
Everything on this end is going well. No snags so far. We took a double-decker bus from the [...]