We have ended up staying in Chengdu for the week and this morning were in the queue waiting for the PSB office to open after the holiday break to lodge our visas for another 30 day extension and we were the second ones to be attended to.

They will be ready to pick up on Thursday, 14th October However it says on the receipt that we are not to leave Chengdu but we have already booked a train ticket to Xi'an for tomorrow night We have however found out that the hostel we have booked in to are quite happy to accept a copy of our passports as well as the receipt from the PSB about our Visa extension.

When we check into our accommodation our passports and Visa are scanned and then sent off to the PSB.