Beijing - Tiananmen Sq

Tiananmen Square is in the heart of the Beijing.


This building is the Chinese Parliament building. It's run by the the communist party.

This Chairman Mao's mausoleum. Locals travel from all over China and wait for over 2-3 hrs to get a 90 second view of Mao's body laying instate.






 This is the sight of the famous 1989 Tiananmen Square protest of a young student who stood in front of a army tank.

Xian - Terracotta Worriers

Xian was the orignal capital of China until 1398. It's a medium size city of 9 million people.




Our tour guide Sam comes from Xian and was happy to be home for the next 2 days.


Xian is famous for a few things - one is Dim Sum.

We had a night out of some cultural dancing.








What Xian is really famous for is the Terracotta Worriers

The worriers were built by the first emperor of China - Qin in 220 BC.
Emperor Qin was famous for uniting all the Chinese provinces and people into one nation.

Seeing the worriers makes us feel the whole trip was worth it.

The are over 8000 worriers and horses.

I must have seen this view on the discovery chanel over 100 times.



Xian is one of the last cities to still have it's original city wall still standing after thousands of years.





Juice bought one of these dresses...which colour dress do you think? 



Cheng Du - Panda

Hello Cheng Du, city has 15 million people living in it.


In order to cope with the city growth they're building massive apartments just like all other cities.
Another building sight.


We went out for a little shopping in the city centre.


Hmmmm people, lots of them, luckily I can see were to go.

Traffic is a daily change.

Out for some local Chinese song and dance.

The art of 'face changing'



In the morning we're headed out to what Cheng Du is famous for...Panda's

Our first Panda. He was simply chilling and eating his daily share of 15 kgs of bamboo

Pandas are not bears. They're their own species Pandas

Juice doing her Panda impression



Pandas can climb trees.


Kimble feeling a little hungry and thought a little bamboo would do.

A little red panda