Hi Vicki, thanks so much for your positive feedback! We’re really glad that you think that our writing and the tips we are providing are useful. We’ve seen quite a bit of traffic from the USA, so thank you also for helping us to up our numbers there :).

We definitely don’t feel that young at times, like after 3 days hiking in the Zhangjiajie National Forest which we have just done (our bodies are broken!)- but it was so worth it. We actually find that the work on the website is our downtime from travelling. That may sound a bit strange but it’s sometimes good to have time on the computer and escape the travels!

The Pandas in Chengdu are wonderful. We’ll have to write a blog post on that in the near future, as they were amazing and a real bucklist moment for us. In fact, China has been one of those completely unexpected places that has provided us so many highlights. There is so much to explore here, but so little time. Our favourte has to be hiking the Great Wall though, which without doubt is the most impressive manmade building we have ever seen.

You can let Marianne know that although we are continually being cautious, and have to keep your wits about you, that we have not experienced anything in our travels to be concerned about on the security front. Overall people have been amazingly hospitable and helpful – tourism is so important to many parts of Asia that I think you’re generally safer as a traveller/tourist than many other places.