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Chengdu Slideshow
Chengdu
Travel Blogs from Chengdu, China
New Friends
... and then went to Australia to work, but didn’t like his life there so when he got an opportunity to come back to Chengdu and work as a loan officer he returned. It’s fun to listen to him talk because he has an excellent mastery of very ...
smoggy Chengdu (cute pandas)
... nbsp; So, after much delay, a hairy flight and two cab rides, we finally got to bed at 2AM. Chengdu is the 5th largest city in China with almost as many people as NYC. Our hotel room was on the 16th floor, so we thought we'd ...
Pandas!
Today we saw some cute pandas...Chengdu is "home of the pandas" after all. We planned to do a marathon day: pandas in the morning and giant Buddha in the afternoon, but we got stuck at the panda center for longer than we thought. By the time ...
Sichuan - 'Land of Abundance'
... to note that due to over-consumption, the Centre has to rely on purchasing the bamboo from villagers outside Chengdu. It was interesting to see one worker organize them into bundles and hose them down before doing so.Right aligned photo ...
Hazy, Busy, Bustling Chengdu
... to the hostel but they kept going past us, even when we moved to the proper area after realizing we were at the wrong bus area. Chengdu is big & busy & full of smog - no blue sky here!!! It is the 5th biggest city in China with a population of ...
I know squat - or - I squat therefore I am
Funny title eh - I'll come back to that. Chengdu This is a nice big town with the basics of every big Asian City (Same Same, but different). Very few non-Chinese here so people stare at you (okay - they stare at me because I'm 6'4"). You wonder up ...
"Home"
The past week in Guiyang was great. We met with our dean, a very pleasant and kind man. We spent a good deal of time with the assistant waiban (foreign affairs officer) of our school. Since we are the only foreign teachers at our school, I'm sure ...
Nouvelles de la square statue d'alcool banane
... dans une si belle place, les gens etaient heureux et le soleil brillait, un metro place au bas d'une descente, il y a un metro a Chengdu je l'ignorais, click j'ai reussis a prendre en douce une photo du policier et son gun dans son petit cart, un artiste ...
The Afterparty
150208 Chengdu, China. Jengitappeluita pikaruokaravintoloissa, sahkopamppua juna-asemalla, leffatyylisia poliisitaka-ajoja keskustassa.. Siis minkalaiseen kaupunkiin nyt on jouduttu? KOVAA PELIA CHENGDUSSA! Tarkoituksenamme oli siis vain pysahtya ...
Would you like butter in your tea?
Woke up to a bit of rain but nothing too bad. We wanted to visit little Tibet so that I could try a dish Jason and Sara had been raving about called Momos. Momos are a dumpling stuffed with meat, yak in his case, and steamed with some type ...
Cleaning
The day started off with a search for something to drink with breakfast. I really wanted my favorite peach juice, so I walked down to the large campus store, about two blocks from the dorm. Unfortunately, because it was Sunday, it was still closed at ...
Giant Pandas
... got stuck in the same thing in Xian but his sounded a bit more heated with the burning a of Japanese shop and all sorts! Chengdu is a very interesting city it has a population of 4m in the city but the greater surburban area has 13m so its actually ...
Panda-monium
... I went on were well worth it. Ha Long Bay, the Mekong Delta, and now the Panda Breeding and Research Center in Chengdu, Sichuan. Many tourists come to Sichuan just to see this Chinese national treasure only found here and in Shaanxi and ...
Playing with Pandas!
... but weren't allowed to take photos because the flash would hurt their eyes. The sanctuary is only about half an hour from Chengdu, really worth the trip :) The Che Guevara bar is a little experience in itself. You walk in through a curtain facing the ...
Cuddly Pandas
A quick change in direction and our first experience of Chinese aviation to the city of Chengdu. Destination....Giant Panda Research Centre. The sanctuary is is very informative and good value for money. Most importantly, you get to ...
Another day, another city
... , so be preapred for a chinese feast when i come home! And we went to see the pandas! they were so cool, just sitting around chomping on bamboo being lazy and looking cute. Chengdu's a pretty nice city, but still suffers from the interminable ...
Tea, Chillies and Pandas
... café culture we miss so much. The laoban (owner) was a jolly soul and we managed a little conversation with him. The Chengdu accent is quite different to Jinanhua and sounds strange to us when we hear people gabbling on the streets. We enjoyed the tea ...
Sichuan and National Holiday!!
... was such a big deal, we all got 10 days off from classes! So me and my TBC friends Rebecca, Allison, and Lulu went to Chengdu in Sichuan Province for a few days. Lulu is Chinese and she had a friend from high school who goes to Chengdu University so he ...
Arrive in Chengdu
... Joseph's teacher. Luyi decided to stay at his grandma's condo so as to spend more time with his new playmate, so he slept with Joseph in the living room in our condo. Our first day in Chengdu was a fabulous and relaxed ...
Two Black Eyes
... Monastry which was jampacked with huge buddhas and temples and thankfully much easier to navigate than the nearby Chengdu streets. Unlike many other sights around China, the monastry wasn't overrun with the usual tour groups and so meant a very peaceful ...
Pandamonium and supersized relics
... was the bus ride home. We were accosted by a fairly official-looking tour company offering same price return tickets to the Chengdu terminal. Our eventual drop-off point is gawd knows where with no local transport service. Taxi drivers (I use that term ...
Chengdu's giant pandas & Buddhas
... ; On Sunday I woke up at 6.30 to visit the giant Panda Breeding and Reservation Centre, 20 minutes from Chengdu. The scientists here are trying to breed the giant pandas, with artificial insemination if necessary. The panda has become a ...
Konference v Chengdu
... za poznanim mesta a nakupy. Prvni den jsme si vypujcili kola v hostelu a objizdeli mestske parky a pametihodnosti. Parku je v Chengdu o poznani vice nez v jinych velkomestech a nachazi se zde cela rada cajoven, ktere jsou vyhlasene a lide v nich zde ...
Chengdu Earthquake Aftermath
Dear Friends and Family, It is about 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Chengdu and we are still here. The airports and train station are still closed. We did have aftershocks throughout the evening and slept in our clothes. We thought we might ...
Some panda-lov'n...
After a lovely, NOT, night on the train, we arrived in Chengdu. VERY early one morning we woke up (wanted to throw the alarm out the window) and went on our 2nd tour, to see the baby-pandas!!! I just want to be a panda, so chilled out, and the only ...
Chilling in Chengdu and Pandamonium
... (Ori and Gal) and decided to hit the Great Buddha at Leshan - which is the first of the 3 'China Highlights' in my Rough Guide which are in the Chengdu area. The Israelis were very much a happy addition to the crew as they are real cool cats. The ...
The Mid-Autumn Festival
With Kiana and almost everybody else gone to Emei Mountain, I thought Tuesday night was going to be rather boring, but Alex called around dinner time and asked if I wanted to go shopping. I wanted to buy a bag for school, since I worry about getting ...