China

Flying from Hong Kong to Beijing was fantastic. We hadn't seen the sky in a while but travelling up through China we had the most amazing blue sky with enormous cloud formations. Beijing is a monster, covering a huge area and housing around 17 million people, but somehow it manages to give off a peaceful air. It's nowhere near as polluted as we expected and most of the people keep to themselves and their spit.

What we are quite confused about is why in a supersized city our hostel gives us the world's smallest toilet paper rolls.