Chengdu
Travel Blogs from Chengdu, China
Xi'an to Chengdu
... 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
... 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 ...
Getting to Know Chengdu
We decided to spend our first day in Chengdu wandering around the city and seeing some sights in town. Our plan was to start right from our hostel at one side of the ring road and make our way through central Chengdu and on through to the other side of ...
A Chinese Massage
We woke up late so our thoughts of making it to Emei Shan faded but we still planned to head to the Leshan Giant Buddha this day. We also had to go get train tickets for our trip to Xian though and so after grabbing something to eat we hopped on a bus ...
One BIG Buddha
... again we did make it to Leshan to see the Giant Buddha. We hopped on a bus to one of the long distance bus stations in Chengdu, with our note in chinese describing where we want to go on it that we got from our hostel, and bought our tickets. They ended ...
Pandas!! and a Chinese Opera to Top it Off
We got up early this day as we were to meet our tour group from the hostel we were at in the lobby for our trip to the Chengdu Panda Centre. The pandas are fed at 9:30 and are most active around that time so that's why we had to rise early, to get there ...
Cruising for Pandas
... 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 ...
Pandas, Buddhas and other giant things
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 - ...
Chengdu on the Cheap
... 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 ...
Heading Towards Tibet
... 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
... 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 ...
One night stand...turns out ...
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 ...
Dawn meets her Giant Pandas!!
... 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 ...
Bike Ride - Day 6. Ya'an to Chengdu
... I now had a forearm like Popeye. It was slowly spreading up my arm and itched like crazy. Today we would be returning to Chengdu but not before a short ride. We drove the van from Ya'an to Shangli and had a quick look round this lovely, but ...
Day 45
... '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
... 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 ...
Abre sus ojos
... 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 ...
Bruce Cambell..... A Tribute
"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 ...
Day 43
... 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 ...
Day 40
... seem to be any concept of personal space in China, you really can't expect to be left alone anywhere. Steve and I continued our Chengdu pattern of not really achieving anything and took the long way round to our hostel where we spent the rest of the ...
China
... . By this point the police were beginning to take a bigger interest so i decided to leave, my passion for football reignited. Chengdu was a cosmopolitan place that was more Western in style than other places we had been. That night we met a Chinese ...
HODR Sichuan Earthquake Assessment
Is on the list of things to do, just need to find some time to write about ...
Pandas !!!!!
We got up at 6.30 this morn to get the bus to the Chengdu Panda Sanctuary. Panda Facts - Pandas werent discovered by the western world till 1869 until Pere David brought a pelt back from China - There are now less than 1000 wild pandas left in the wild ...
Cooking Class Schian Style - SPICEY !!!
So we arrived in Chengdu after 30 odd hours of travel and a severe lack of sleep. Our hard sleeper train was fine - a step up from the indian trains we had sheets and pillows this time and hot water tanks so we could have tea and noodles. We were ...
Yunnan pandas prefer milk
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 ...
Warmer winter on its way for China + drought
... 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 ...
Things to do in Chengdu!
... to support the zoo's which are apparently particularly depressing to visit. Much to my delight there's a Panda research center here in Chengdu, so I took the liberty and went to visit it. As far as enclosures for animals go this was pretty good, 36ha ...
Shopping in Chengdu
... out with a tank top on sale all at the first place. Later we caught a bus to a mall in the center of Chengdu which was a mistake because everything was all too expensive (little boutique clothing shops). They follow you around like puppies in the stores ...
Why oranges are so cheap right now
... 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 ...
Want Some Bacon?
... 't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep, and root, in shit. That's a filthy animal" -- Pulp Fiction When we got back to Chengdu we couldn't get a bed in Sim's place, or even the other hostel around the corner. We ended up having to check into a ...

