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Travel Blogs from Luding County
Leshan and Emeishan
From Chengdu I hopped a bus and stopped in Leshan for the day to see the Giant Buddha, then hopped back on the bus to continue on the Emeishan for some hiking in the next day or two.
Was very fortunate and got clear blue skies on the summit with a sea of clouds below. apparently fairly rare. it rains there 200 days of the year.
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To Kangding, then back the way I came
... many bends there were, but they really did seem to go on forever. I felt so sorry for the poor people who like I would have probably been, were already walking before they’d even got to the first bend.
My trip to the immigration office was a good one. I kept quiet about my past travels and the fact that I wished ...
Tagong
... to where I would be staying and introduced me to the lady who lived there before leaving us to it.
As the evening drew in Dayko and I washed some of Paradoji’s clothes in the freezing river. In my opinion this was surely a job better to do whilst the sun was still shining, as it made my hands hurt with the cold. Later we took sacks from the ...
Crazy chinese beer seller
... a few hours of driving we passed through the small village of Shengli (near Ya'an) full of classical Chinese wooden buildings, and Adam pulled over, and we were given instructions to be back in 2 hours (4pm). We joined James and John for a wander through the village and sat down in a local restaurant where no one spoke English, and with the aid of our Mandarin phrase book asked for some local specialties. What came next was a feast! Seven courses plus ...
Nee hao
... en 10 miljoen inwoners. Maar toch heeft de stad wel wat. Leuk fietsen, en het ismaar goed dat ik goede remmen heb, want fietsers hebben nergens voorrang op behalve voetgangers. Komt er een auto van links door rood licht, dan word je verbaasd aangekeken als je voorrang wilt nemen.
Op naar het Panda Breeding Research Centre. De +/- 7000 nog in het wild levende panda`s leven rond Chengdu en in Chengdu is een gebied van 230 ha vrijgemaakt om ...