Some videos :)

Tokyo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwVm8bz1gk&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=13&feature=plcp

Vietnam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klduUvyrHCs&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=1&feature=plcp

Cambodia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUIzge7Huo&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=12&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK8lRYVzr9Q&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=7&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUC_YOhuuMg&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=8&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnNHqQugAk&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=9&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tonm74PeD9o&list=UUk6Kp8YsIneKmAMqzpnB0rg&index=10&feature=plcp

Tokyo pt1

OMG Japan WTF. Everything is so expensive! In my first two days Ive spent over 200 pounds, thats hopefully not gona be the start of a trend.TBH though some of those things were real one off events, For starters the train cost me about 25 pounds to get from the airport to the center of tokyo Then there was the ticket for a band I wanted to see. Both of those were unavoidable, the band is one of my faves and just by chance they were playing in Tokyo the same time as i was there. ive never seen them before either. The ticket was just over 60 pounds, and there was an obligatory drinks charge of 4 pounds ontop of that. They wouldnt let me in the venu without paying it. I dont think not having a drink was an option. Anyway, the Show was awesome and well worth the money IMO even if its the most ive ever spent for a single show. I also caught one of the drum sticks at the end.
Upon ariving all I did was get lost in the subway, then when i got to the correct stop on the subway I got lost down small backstreets trying to find the Hostel.I didnt see much of anything that day. The second day I woke up late due to staying awake in an airport all night the day before, but I managed to get to the famous padestrian crossing. No pictures because I was tired of carrying a bag about, I willgo back at a later date as I have enough time here.
On the third (second full) day I went to the electric city. Its named for being THE main location to get computer parts and electronics. i only bought a PC mouse because my other one broke. But its not a tourist atraction for its computer hardware stores.The main draw of electric city is the masses and masses of comic book shops, figurine shops, videogame arcades and other things of that nature. The scale of it was insane and its the sort of thing that could only happen in japan. seeing hundereds of men in buisness suitsshopping for plastic figurines ranging from mech robots to girls in bikini tops is truely sureal. The Videogame arcades were huge, but mostly full of retro stuff and japanise language games that made little sence looking at them. some of the stuff was realy cool though like huge capsules for Mech suit games with over 180 degree screensand a chair and levers. It was tough to get a photo as the security were on you in seconds and asked you to delete any photos you had taken inside the building (and looked over your shoulder to see that you were deleting them).
I'm not that keen on japanese food. I dont like sushi, and it seems to be part of almost every meal (you can get sushi at McDonalds). Even in the 711's they have rows and rows of Bento boxes. The one thing that I'm dissapointed about is the lack of conveyor belt sushi resteraunts. There are sushi resteraunts every 20 meters, but the sushi isnt moving in a clockwise direction. I will need to look harder as they must be here somewhere.

Beijing 2

saw the grand palice
saw the summer palice
saw another temple thing
saw a food stall street with lizards and star fish on sticks etc
trainers broke and got some new ones (propper swish)
blew four days budget in one evening clubbing at some posh beijing club.

Gubeikou (The great wall)

The graet wall, only without the tourists. I didnt want to spend all my time in beijing central and chose to spend a couple of nights in a small village near the wall.getting there was easy, but had the potential to be a real pain. When i got the bus from beijing there was a nice lady waiting at the bus station to ask where I was going and help me get there.She showed me to the bus i needed to take (It was easy to find yourself) and then informed me that the next bus I needed to get to Goubekou had been stopped and I needed to take a taxi. About two thirds through the bus jourmney A guy came onto the bus at a bus station and called at me to get off and take a taxi.I stayed on the bus as The hostel instructed me to stay on the bus till the end of the line. When i got to the end there were another bunch of taxi drivers telling me ther is no bus 25 and i needed a taxi. I got on the bus 25 about 7 minutes later.
Near Gubeikou Is a small village that has one hostel that is run buy a chinese woman. The village is like a very old village (small streets and old buildings) mixed with a very modern village (there were solar pannels and half built houses) in an old style. Its sometimes hard to tell which are the old buildings and which are new. There were apparently three small resteraunts in the village along the main street, but I couldnt find any of them as they looked like the houses. I was told by one canadian girl that was there that you just have to walk into what looks like someones house and hope for the best. I gave up looking for them and crossed over into Gubeikou main town (which was still just small old buildings) and found a more obvious resteraunt.It took about 10 minutes using a translator on the computer to get some food. The translator was confusing and all the translations made very little sence. eventualy it translated something into "Pork omlet" I didnt really want a pork omlet If I were given a choice but I would take any food they would give me. so i nodded my head and they gave me that.I climbed the Great wall on both sides of the village and only found one group of chinese kids (and what i think what was their fat friend trailing about 300 meters behind them) in many hours of walking. Everyone else was just local villagers spreading their seeds on the ground to dry them out.the views were good and the light at the end of the day also looked great on the bricks. It would have been great for some photos but my camera battery died after like 5 minutes in the morning so it wasnt possible to take any pics. I got a couple of souvaneer shots at the top of the Tiger wall.

The day afterwards A bunch of canadians and an english girl who happend to be staying at the same hostel as me in beijing turned up, I went with them to do the great wall again before going back to the city.

Beijing

Lots of gray. The sky was gray, the floor was gray, the buildings were gray. It was mysty and you couldnt see very far, only a few lamps could shine through the myst.There was a large number of goverment (I dont know if they were police or army) in big thick furry trench coats walking through the streets, mostly in pairs but a couple of timesthere were groups of about 16 walking in two parallel lines. Once again It felt like being in a WW2 film. It was really cool though. The myst, gray surfaces, soldiers, and a handfull of Red dim glowinglights gave a great effect. Around my hostel Many of the buildings were modern but in a traditional style as this was a big shopping area for general stuff.
The next day I wandered about and whent to the Theneman square (wrong spelling, and probably totaly the wrong name) where the Chairman Mao portrait hangs.

Hangzhou again (kinda)

Took the bus from Shouzhou to shanghai then took the bullet train back to Hangzhou... I kinda lost the laptop battery. I remember droping it offthe bed then the battery must have dislocated. So that cost me another 16 quid in bullet trains to get that back.
I got the bullet train from shanghai to Beijing and it took 5 hours, the seats were good and after so many 15+ hour trips in crappy seats it felt like a blink of an eye.

Souzhou

Souzhou is a "water town" Its not vennice but it does have a number of old streets and bridges over water. Most of them are lined with coffee and tea shops and only a couple of places to eat. The water area is only a small part though. If you walk over to the west side of the inner part of the city it turns into a shopping area roughly resembeling Las Veagas. Huge flashing signs everywhere and high end shops, fast food resteraunts and other stuff all allong it.
I stayed there for three nights, I arived in the afternoon without a reservation, the bus droped everyone off outside the center of town so i didnt know where I was (Later that day I learnt that many of the inner cityroads were being rebuilt so the trafic in the city was bad, the locals probably knew this but nobody could tell me what was happening in english so I just had to deal with it).
I found one of the hostels I had noted on my map but they were full, I walked to a second one that i found by chance and they were full other than one dorm bed. I only wanted a dorm bed so that was cool, But they only had it for one night.I tooke the room anyway and later found another place for the next two nights. The temples and the gardens around the area were good, but not as interesting as anything in Hangzhou. One of the gardens was Labled as the fourth most beutifull garden in China, but I wasnt that impressed. It was nice, but nothing special. It might have ben better if ther werent 100 other people looking at the gardxen at the same time. There was also a cool tower in the style of the two in the lake at Guilin.