Furong Hotel Chengdu
No.99 Guo Jie Lou Steet, Qingyang District Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Looking forward to warmer quarters.
We slept well in spite of the freezing house. People in China seem not to mind the cold. All of the workplaces that we visited have been unheated. Restaurants are colder than we are used to and the farmer’s homes were colder than the out of doors. Our guide said that they prefer the cold. Everyone seems to wear coats all of the time, …
A million panda pictures.
Furong Hotel, Chengdu
This hotel is definitely not up to the OATS standard. However, it will do.
Today we set out for the Panda Sanctuary to the breeding houses to see some of the 1000 remaining endangered Pandas. Apparently, most of them live in the Chengdu area and the city has become famous because of the sanctuary.
The …
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Sichuan story
... dans les environs. La ville en elle-même est relativement facile à vivre et « relax », beaucoup plus que Shanghai et Beijing en tout cas. Le métro de la ville, flambant neuf, est quasiment vide.
Au centre de Chengdu, sur la place Tianfu, trône une statue hideuse de Mao. La place entière n’est qu’une réplique taille small de Tiananmen, avec ses flics, ses étendues vides, son drapeau chinois et ses écrans géants patriotiques. ...
Gimmicks and Glitz: Shopping Centres in Chengdu
... games. I’ve seen signs for a baby racing competition – promoting a brand of nappies. I’ve had people come towards me, slap a set of head phones on my head and take my picture with a polaroid and hand the photo to me with a slip of paper covered in Chinese. Yet the weirdest campaign would have to be the half a dozen women dressed as apples who went on stage and performed a dance routine – complete with free juice. What ...
OK- so the airport is a piece of cake compared to
This morning was a treat- programs didn't start until 11:30!!!! I think our group would have revolted if they didn't allow us this rest time. People were starting to get mean :)
The girls and I slept until a much needed 8AM- Jack and Chris are sleeping in another room. The girls and I went down to breakfast and then off to STARBUCKS! We ventured out- it's not like Beijing where they see a lot of different travelers- we were a show. And to top it off the Starbucks is right on ...


