Chongqing Hotel

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... has flowed for thousands of years. It flows through the majority of China, such as Qinghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai. And during many years in last century, it was the main vital communication line. Goods from Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou collected in Shanghai ...

<br>On Nov 3rd we took an 8:00<br>am train from Chengdu to Chongqing for a city tour before leaving on<br>our Yangtze River Cruise. This appeared to be a very metropolitan<br>city. The guide said there were 30 million people considering the<br>suburbs of Chongqing. However, it does not appear to be as big as<br>Beijing. But the city is more urban with TONS of what appear to be<br>new apartment buildings 30 or 40 stories high. It looks like a more<br>wealthy modern city. <br><br><br>It ...

China's cities are gobsmackingly big... Chongqing, from where I type, for example, has thirty two million residents... that's compared to the Irish national population of about six million and the Aussie equivalent of twenty one million. Small wonder, then, that I find them a little overwhelming... it can take an age to travel across a city on a bus, the streets are teeming with bodies, and you can imagine the ...

... spicy diets in the world, police have begun serving drivers dried chilli peppers at highway service stations because they are worried that driving in the Spring will mean drivers are even more sleepy than usual. Drivers have already stopped and helped themselves to 1.5kg (3lb) of featherlight dried peppers since the service began nine days ago, local newspapers reported. "It's an unbelievable quantity," a police officer said. And that assessment comes in ...

... around me. In the afternoon, I decide to go around the city walls (you can walk or bike on top of the walls). I hire a bike for 2$ for 1h30. Was happy to cycle and more so that everyone was still at the pagoda I saw in the morning so walls were very quiet. Yesterday, WE (yeah, Hamish is back on track) went to see the Terracotta warriors. Very interesting and full day. TOok the train at night and we are now in the Chongqing (one of ...

... parked outside a shop and so I got off the bus and bought a small cake for breakfast. A Chinese woman walked in and asked in good English where I was from. Turned out that she was from Middlesex so at least I had someone to translate for me if I had any problems or questions along the way. The bus set off a picked someone else up at another hotel in the city before reaching the outskirts and picking up the motorway, east to Chongqing. We stopped after a couple of hours in ...

... dodgy! At 7pm we boarded the 'cruise ship', got settled into our rooms and were away by 11pm. We thought for the first night we'd be brave and sample the kitchen and to our surprise had a reasonably nice meal washed down with several TsingTao beers. (Even if my 'Vegetarian' bean curd had beef in it!!) - (The sweet and sour ribs were excellent - JR!) The boat mainly catered to Chinese tourists and there ...

... on a tributary of the Yangtze - you have to get off the big ship and get onto smaller boats to see it and it was the highlight for me. We also had a interesting side trip at 6am on the first morning to visit Ghost City at Fengdu which is a collection of temples in some way connected to death and the passage to hell. It was hard to tell exactly what the story was as the guiding was entirely in chinese but Jo and I got in the spirit by imitating the grotesque ...

... down neither Fiona nor I fancied trudging around Fengdu's shrines (all dedicated to Tianzi Shan - the Kind of the Dead - which gives Fengdu its other name, the Ghost City). We therefore read in our cabin and wandered around the boat before it headed off in the late afternoon towards the first gorge, Qutang. After a dinner of very uninspiring westernized Chinese food we decided to give the variety show put on by the crew a miss and had an early night given that we ...