Jinli Hostel Chengdu

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1) Une ceinture ca sert pas juste a tenir un pantalon
2) Un livre ca sert pas juste a ecrire des choses ou les lires ...

Today is Moon Festival and the Hotel left us some Moon Cakes in our room, not bad, very different, Michelle had one with an boiled egg in the middle. Couldn't work out just what was in some of them but maybe we don't want to know.

Although a rainy day we head off to Le Shan to view the Great Buddha and on the way we stop at a tea shop to taste and buy the different teas. After 2 hours we ...

... pot eaterie with an English degree, and she helped us order the 'bai wei, la wei' option (half spicy oil, half stock soup) and joined us at our table during her break. As she delivered Ben's 'pijiu' (beer), she also brought along a bottle of Peanut Milk for Caragh. When Caragh explained she didn't want the drink, Miss. Fu looked shocked and told us this was what 'all the ladies' drink. With that accolade, we ...

... on a freeway. We got off a freeway. We went through areas of commercial buildings and residential areas. And still we were going. We knew he was definitely not going to the right place, but what were we supposed to do? What if it turned out to be right? We had no way of knowing. We did get a really interesting look at part of Chengdu we hadn’t seen before, though.

After a little more than twenty minutes we do indeed arrive at a Century Mart, so at least we’d gotten the ...

... and Ellie had five on her face. Our arms were COVERED in mosquito bites and swollen and itchy beyond belief. It was rather uncomfortable, but we were dealing with it. One of the artists was acting as if he was the mosquito biting us, saying ... "Zzzz, I love you - bite" It was really quite funny. They loved how white my skin was. At 10pm the lights went out and we all went to bed. The next morning, I woke up to the sound of all five of them ...

Over the last few years I've noticed that the normal rainy season in south-west China has become less severe, and now scientists are saying that the country is due for more periods of prolonged drought. The result will be the 23rd warm winter in a row. But the forecast is patchy, with predictions that in the middle of China - the middle reaches of the Yangtze - they could have extreme falls in temperatures - a little like this ...

... home to find his son dead from starvation, prompting these famous lines: "Wine and meat go bad in lordly mansions. Bones of those dying in chilly wind are scattered on the road." Simultaneously in Chinese history, calligraphy has functioned as a prominent art form. It is fascinating to think that writing words on paper---something we do every day---is viewed as art. Famous historical calligraphic works are displayed ...

... come to donate clothes. After a few minutes, he handed the camera back to me and told me not to take anymore pictures. The incident left me a little shaken up, so I quickly got on my bike and drove away. On the road back, I saw a sign for Qingcheng Shan, a famous Daoist Mountain, and I decided that a visit might calm me down. When I reached the mountain, I didn't stop. I kept following the road up and around the mountain. The road was steep and curvy ...

overnight train from Xian was fun, meet a native chengdu called wang yang (Kim) and had a good chat about stuff. He is a student in Xian and goes home to chengdu to see his girlfriend and teach hip hop dancing. had a wander around the city and found Mao's statue along with Tianfu Square, not the best weather, rather misty staying at the Loft hostel which has some ...

... Sorry, no photos - they had a few guards making sure no one snuck a quick pic. We saw one guy almost get his camera confiscated. However the fluffy little furballs were extremely cute. Neither of us realized how fragile they are early in life requiring a very precise diet and temperatures to help promote survival. The pandas alone were worth the re-route into ChengDu. In an ironic twist of fate our airplane that brought us to Kathmandu made an hour layover ...