Hotels in Chengdu - Prices and Reviews

Continued from ; Super Buddha I catch the local bone shaker to Emei town then examine the offshoots of a large roundabout trying to determine which exit is the correct one to board a private minivan to a place called Buo Guo. These are the only instructions I have. Buo Gao is situated at the foot of the mountain . In my mind I see a smoky cleari...

When we decided we were coming away for a whole year I had some vague idea that we would be spending both birthdays and important holidays somewhere exotic, possible lounging on a beach somewhere - some location we'd want to remember and we'd be able to recall with pleasure on our return to the UK. With such ideas, you can image how disappointed...

Flew to Chengdu to visit the Panda Sanctuary. Met a guy from Hunan, Li Jun, in the Che Guevara Bar up the road from the hostel who was on holidays and came to the panda sanctuary with us. We went with a group of people from the hostel and one guy was a complete lunatic. It got to a stage where Li Jun was gonna practise his kung fu on him much to...

We left Songpan to return to Chengdu to kill a few days before our flight to Lhasa (Tibet) early tomorrow morning. I'm not really a city fan when travelling, especially China's sprawls, and so our arrival into Chengdu's grotty outskirts in the pouring rain was totally uninviting! We immediately headed to an amazing Tex-Mex restaurant with two sa...

After seeing off Sarah's parents, we started looking towards our next destination: Tibet. Timing was important because we wanted to get there early enough to acclimate to the altitude. We still had a few things to take care of before we got there, like getting a visa extension and getting a flight into Tibet (our earlier notion of taking a bus i...

Continued from ; Fake warriors I have several hours to kill before my train leaves for Chengdu. Snow has brought her friend along. You just couldn't imagine a more ugly Chinese girl. We have our pictures taken in one of those cheerful Asian photo booths that will add graphics and convert your mug shot into the front cover of a pop magazine. They...