Chengdu, China Travel Blogs

Xi'an to Chengdu
Aug 2, 2007 (37 photos)

... we are planning a bike tour for a few days into the hills.  There is a company called Bike China (www.bikechina.com) that are based in Chengdu and we have already made contact with them and will hopefully sort something with them. We then hope to ...

Pandas
Aug 21, 2006 (9 photos)

... guesthouse owned by a very pleasant and enthusiastic Singaporean called Sim. Later on we met up with the Belgians (who had arrived in Chengdu the night before us, and as Elke had left her iPod and Camera we were able to bring them along thus proving that ...

Cruising for Pandas
Apr 11, 2005 (12 photos)

... a comfy bed! ('Mix & Backpackers'...a great hostel, newly opened, 70RMB per night for a clean double room with shared facilities). Chengdu is where we hope to see Pandas at the local breeding and research centre based in a designated reserve set up to ...

Abre sus ojos
Jul 19, 2008 (11 photos)

... Nepal, the thought of doing this work in China made it almost unbearable to be anywhere else other than Sichuan. I have left China fascinated and touched by many of the people I had daily contact with. There really are amazing people in every where you ...

Chengdu on the Cheap
Apr 28, 2009 (43 photos)

... watched two pandas, oblivious to the crowd, munching their way through a big pile of green leafy bamboo switches. We were in Chengdu for an altogether unexciting purpose--to get my new passport at the US Consulate so that Dan and I could start booking ...

Pandas, Buddhas and other giant things
Oct 10, 2003 (4 photos)

Chengdu is in Sichuan province, home to China's spiciest food, the world's largest Buddha statue, and best of all - giant pandas! We stayed in the heart of the city at Sam's Guesthouse and were surprised at the amount of construction going on around us - ...

transportravaganza!
Oct 18, 2007 (11 photos)

... they were honestly surprised (even by 20 yuan) and i heard from others afterwords that the taxi drivers in chengdu were some of the nicest they'd dealt with in china. i must have just been unlucky. the hostel gave me 10 yuan which i agreed was fair. while ...

Heading Towards Tibet
Apr 28, 2004 (5 photos)

... at a bus station not on our guidebook's map of Chengdu, but by this point we were used to these little difficulties in China. Chengdu is another large Chinese city that has overhauled itself in the last few years. Old neighborhoods have been leveled to ...

How Do Chengdu
Aug 10, 2007 (16 photos)

... since we last blogged. After Mariska and Rene left we had a little time on our hands to explore Chengdu a little further while we waited for them to return. Donning the walking shoes and armed with blister plasters, we ...

Foreign aid after quake
May 26, 2008 (2 photos)

... Sichuan, and more is on the way. A special channel has been established at the airport of the provincial capital Chengdu, which allows foreign aid workers and their airlifted cargo and to pass through customs in several minutes. Samaritan's Purse is ...

Finally, some caution about the environment
Jun 9, 2008

... -in-law is a senior researcher who has been studying the ecology and the wildlife - including the giant panda - in Southwest China for more than a decade. He told me that more than 20 nature reserves, Wolong being the largest, are affected. These reserves ...

More rumbling on its way
May 28, 2008

... China Daily: Official dismisses rumors of new massive quake (Xinhua) Updated: 2008-05-28 19:10 CHENGDU - A Chinese seismological official dismissed Wednesday rumors that another strong earthquake would strike southwest China on Wednesday. "Such ...

HODR Sichuan Earthquake Assessment
Jun 13, 2008

Is on the list of things to do, just need to find some time to write about it!

One night stand...turns out ...
Nov 26, 2007 (11 photos)

It's not what you think... I had fallen in love with.... Chengdu - for its mild climate (after weeks of cold misery), comphy western feel and convenience and most of all ... the lovely, helpful, smiley people. However, the Chinese authorities broke my hard ...

Helping or Saving? How are these quake workers?
Jun 3, 2008

... watching quake relief efforts on TV was not good enough, and so hopped into Turner's car and pointed it towards Chengdu. Our friend Shannon arrived by plane from Suzhou Wednesday night after hearing about the work we were doing and deciding that ...

Dawn meets her Giant Pandas!!
Nov 2, 2006 (51 photos)

... whether they were propositioned at this upscale hotel. Finally, after all the excitement, the next day we visited the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for our Panda Adventure. This center has had the most success breeding the panda in ...

Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan
May 18, 2008 (2 photos)

... , at 2.28pm I didn't notice anything when the 7.9 magnitude quake struck, some 80km west-north-west of Chengdu. The quake was felt around China and even in other countries. The first I heard was later that evening while I was in Sichuan province ...

Bike Ride - Day 6. Ya'an to Chengdu
Aug 28, 2007 (15 photos)

... back, very accommodating and very unassuming.  This was money well spent. That night we returned to the Loft Hostel in Chengdu and decided to treat ourselves to their finest room - double room with private en-suite.  The best the hostel has ...

Day 45
Oct 28, 2006 (16 photos)

... 'd taken the cable cars, some folk had even taken sedan chair lifts to the top! Mount Emei is one of four sacred Buddhist mountains in China, so at the top there is a temple and a giant golden monument. We took the cable cars back down in pairs and me and ...

Day 41
Oct 24, 2006 (10 photos)

... in the courtyard could hear. "England - we met over there, before" Steve replied "Oh yes ha ha ha, well, Welcome again to Chengdu" We all shook hands for the second time and I just had to get their picture. He knew to keep his mouth closed so you won't ...

Heavy rains across China
Jul 6, 2008

... section of the Yangtze River, blocked traffic in cities, delayed flights, destroyed homes, and flooded farmland. Central China's Hubei Province and southwestern Yunnan Province on Saturday each reported that six were killed by the torrential rain. ...

hina passes test with flying colours
May 28, 2008

... But it deserves considerable credit for coming so far in so short a time. The transformation is particularly apparent if China's response to the Sichuan earthquake is compared to the Myanmar junta's disregard for its citizens following Cyclone Nargis' ...

Yunnan pandas prefer milk
Sep 3, 2009

Should they really be feeding the baby pandas milk? Three pandas from Sichuan came to their new home in Yunnan Province last June. Zoo keepers have been attempting to wean the cubs, hoping for a healthy growth. But their efforts often make the baby pandas ...

Warmer winter on its way for China + drought
Nov 25, 2008

... Xiong Wei, an expert on the correlation between climate change and agriculture with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told China Daily Tuesday that prolonged periods of warm weather and drought are clear signs of climate change, and will have a ...

Bruce Cambell..... A Tribute
Aug 20, 2006 (3 photos)

"Yo, She-Bitch....... Let's go" - Bruce Cambell "Sure, I could have stayed in the past. Hell, I could have probably been King. But in a lot of ways, I am a king. Hail to the King, baby" - Bruce Cambell Everywhere I go, people are always asking ...

Volunteers at the Sichuan earthquake in China
May 24, 2008 (3 photos)

... silence. They also, spontaneously, chanted slogans and punched their fists in the air, shouting ˇ°Come on China!ˇ± as police looked on warily. In Chengdu, the provincial capital, on May 21st a police car shadowed about 100 unofficial relief workers who marched ...

Why oranges are so cheap right now
Nov 12, 2008

... price of oranges has drop from 4 yuan to 1 yuan a kg. The situation elsewhere is no better. Chen Shouyun, an orange dealer in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, said: "Last week, I didn't sell even one kg of oranges when normally I used to sell at least 5,000 kg ...

Day 43
Oct 26, 2006 (1 photos)

... hostel I went with Arjen and Audrey to get train tickets for Lijiang. We intend to travel on Sunday after a two day excursion around Chengdu. We found out soon enough, though, that trains don't actually go to Lijiang. Our only option was to buy a ticket to ...

What about the pandas?
May 26, 2008 (1 photos)

... watery rice porridge, in the absence of bamboo. Eight of the pandas from Wolong have been taken to the provincial capital of Chengdu and will be flown to Beijing later this week as part of a planned Olympics-related stay at the Beijing Zoo. Some pandas ...

Clouds and toads - earthquake prediction or not
May 18, 2008

... said unusual cloud formations were also a warning of an earthquake. But Xiu Jigang, deputy director of the China Earthquake Administration, said cloud formations frequently change and therefore are not reliable in predicting tremors. As for rumors ...