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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...

Zhangjiajie, the place of the heavens Tianmen Mountains and the Gate to Heaven This place was truly unbelievable, and made a lovely break from the cities. We were just in wonder and awe on the car journey from the airport on these lovely fields upon fields of rice, corn and other crops all sloping up the mountain side. This was a really rural experience even with all the pot holes, the chickens running across the roads the people chilling in their basements. Just great to see. The potholes filled us with a sense of dread that our accommodation was going to be a run down hut with no running water, but then again the potholes were no worse than those in some parts of England ;) The view from our room The particular place we stayed was in Yangjiajie which was near the entrance to the national park in the Mini Inn.  This was a great Inn, the food was picked from the garden and prepared for us by the mother of the family, they even had a really friendly dog call...