Chengdu Guest Houses - Comments and Reviews

Today we started the day at 8am. We all had breakfast then we boarded the bus. All of us then had to go back into the hotel to get our passport. We went to a Dam which is 2000 years old. It is called the Dujiang Dam. We do not know why we needed our passport. The drive was about 40 minutes from our hotel. The dam was partially damaged from the e...

It is closer to what you think of when you think of China. There are skyscrapers next to shacks. We ended up eating dinner at pizza hut tonight which was an experience. We almost got pizza with no cheese on it. But in the end we got our pizza. It still is strange to see a bill that is 339 because of the exchange rate. On the way back we ended up...

I went to the Panda zoo today! Although they are called giant pandas, they were not that big. They are very cute though! We mostly watched them eat, sleep, scratch themselves, and play a little bit. I also saw red pandas, which are small and fox-like but also very cute. The whole area was very nice; there was bamboo everywhere and the walkways w...

Class was even more difficult today. We were given our first homework assignment, which is due Monday. After lunch we went to the gym and played badminton. At night we went to a karaoke bar, where your group rents their own room and sings songs and eats. It was really fun and funny! We sang some Britney Spears, Aerosmith, Averil Lavigne, and oth...

After a 16hr overnight train journey I arrived at Chengdu in the Sichuan province at 09:00. I spent 1.5 hours trying to find the no 80 bus to the hostel. The heat was intense with the area being one of those known as the "furnace" of China. I eventually called the hostel who do a free bus station collection service, to come and collect me. Easy!...

Soft seat, hard seat, soft sleeper, or hard sleeper? These are the questions when traveling on China's trains. After buying a black market ticket (the equivalent of scalpers, but in this case if you don't buy, then you don't go...so you buy) and getting a hard sleeper which is actually soft, I made my way through the madness of the train station...