Jichang Star City Hotel
Travel Blogs from Chengdu
Giant Pandas, Red Pandas and Black Swans
... small, I feel now that I’ve seen a part of China I’d been craving and it's another 'tick' off my ‘list', pandas in China.
When back at the hostel I enjoy just chilling out, heading to the bar for a beer, reading or just listening to music, and I meet many lovely people. One older guy Ken has quite some stories to tell; he’s traveled all over the world and has had such an interesting life, ah one of ...
Panda-monium!
... we moved onto the second enclosure where we were surprised to see seven pandas just yards away from us munching away on breakfast bamboo! It was amazing, Fran was going nuts and even I thought they were cute! We must have been at that enclosure just watching them for 30-40 minutes...to be honest they don't do a whole lot but you just find yourself mesmerised by them! After taking a heap of pictures we headed to the main wedding present ...
Cheng du panda
... as it was impossible to get train tickets other than standing room. As soon as we arrived at the airport at 6am it was clear that the great Chinese migration had started. The airport was rammed with people everywhere. We found our queue and waited, we managed to get checked in after a huge wait in a massive queue.
We arrived in Chengdu after the short flight ...
La route est longue, mais quels paysages!!
Apres plus de 30h de voyage (2 trains, 1 bus) nous voici a Dali, dans le Yunnan ! Region tres prisee des touristes, pour ses paysages, ses treks, ses minorites. Apres 2 semaines sans voir un occidental, on espere croiser des backpackers, echanger les bons plans, profiter de l'atmosphere nocture de ces villes !
Dali, vieille ville fortifiee, est entouree a l’ouest d’un des plus grands lac d’eau douce de Chine et a l’est ...
Z dola na hor v Cine / From the bottom up in China
... 11/11) berieme podvecer nocny vlak do Xianu (12 hodin) kde stravime 3 dni a vydame sa dalsim nocnym vlakom do Beijingu kde stravime posledny tyzden v Cine.
Este sa vratim k ceste busom do Guyang Yuanu, cesta trvala 9 hodin, pokazil sa autobus ale super vodic ho opravil asi za 20 minut, v autobuse sedelo zopar podivynov (ako napriklad jeden co na nas v kuse cumel s otvorenymi ustami a vzdy ked autobusar zastavil tak chcel vybehnut von alebo jeden, ktory cely ...