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Adventures in Asia Welcome to our week long series of our Adventures through Asia. Each day we will add another link here to a post for our time in China where we were unable to blog due to the firewall they have in place. We will finally finish off this series by posting about Singapore which is our location for the duration of the time that we are writing this series. I hope that you will enjoy it. please click a link below to see a new post. 1. Hong Kong Chinese Junk ship at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong 2. Zhangjiajie A misty morning in Zhangjiajie 3. Chengdu Red Panda in Chengdu Panda Research Base 4. Xi'an Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army 5. Dongcheng, Beijing The Temple of Heaven 6. Chaoyang, Beijing Ritan Park 7. Singapore Great Trees at night from Garden By The Bay In case your interested:  We did have further adventures in Asia than we write about in this short series. We also went to Japan, which is in Asia b

Medusa's Favourite Place The South Gate to Xi'an's City Wall We got on the train from Chengdu Station to leave for Xi’an. Chengdu station is a ginormous complex on the east side of the city (there are four stations in total, one on each cardinal point). It is best described as an airport terminal as there are so many platforms in which to take off from that it is very easy to be overwhelmed. Dad and I queued for the tickets in a hall crammed full of people. One man tried to push into the line (as queueing is very different in China from England, dad kept comparing it more to rugby) and then there was a woman in the queue who literally went for him screaming no in his face while he was explaining his hurry until he moved away. We finally got on the train and were on our way to the wonders of Xi’an.                  Bell Tower in Xi'an Upon arrival we made our way to our accommodation which was an Airbnb in the south of the walled city. Our accommodation