Silk Road 2017

We are met at our hotel at 7:15 by 6 staff members from saic, Aiden,  Chris, Gary, Hui, Annie & Susan.  They also have a […]

Today we have a 450 kilometre drive to Shanghai on the highway and the toll gates are working again so we have to pay as […]

This morning we have a quick snack for breakfast & leave the guest house at 6 am for our 40 km drive to Huangshan. The […]

This morning we are being shown around the Sculpture Factory which is one of the china production areas of the city.  Tony has a couple […]

Today we have a big driving day of approximately 680 km so we have an early start at 7 am.  It’s important that we don’t […]

Today we drive approximately 230 km to Yichang to visit the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.  Quite a few of the cities we […]

We wake today to fine weather, the first for many days, which is most  fortunate as we are going on a boat to the Three […]

Shiraz is the lead car today and we have a transport day of approximately 340 kilometres in drizzling rain on the highway. The outlook from […]

We woke again to another wet & misty day, which makes the mountains look quite magical, it’s cold outside but we are quite cosy in […]

We wake to a showery day and drive 185 km on a highway to the Zhijin Caves.  Driving through the villages to get to the […]