Michael and Kay’s Travels

This morning we have a local guide, Kevin, to take us to the Confucius temple and the Confucius mansion.  Confucius’ family name was Kong and […]

This morning we have approximately 500 km to drive to Qufu the birthplace of Confucius.  We drive for about 2 hours on a highway (toll […]

We have a city tour on this showery morning, so a mini bus picks us up from our hotel with our guide Helen and the […]

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 […]