Chengdu Inns - Comments and Reviews

I have not set up the email list yet, as a starting note. It shouldn't be that hard, but I've been distracted with finals (which went well), the Beijing/Xi'An Trip (of which I leave in about 12 hours), and halloween at the english school! I felt that this was the perfect time to take pictures of my class. I got all dressed up as one of their new...

We came upon the oasis of a hostel that is Sim's as a result of Jesse's obstinacy, and my compliance to it when I realize I'm too worn to be dipping into my own mental reserve of budgetting on our over yearlong journey. Still developing a spine, and think it's actually getting progressively stronger! (Though my moments of weakness still pop its ...

7:00am Wow... the last 30 minutes were pretty interesting. The Yangtze River / 3 gorges package I got included pickup from the hostel to the bus station, so about 25 minutes ago the pickup car finally picked me up. What followed was one of the fastest craziest taxi rides of my life. Constantly between 80 and 100km (in the city), running through ...

Hi everyone, We're on the flight from Shanghai to Chengdu now. I want to update the travel blog while I have the time and give more details about our plans for Tibet. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province with a population of over 4 million so I should be able to find an Internet connection tonight. It may be more difficult when we travel t...

Yesterday (Wednesday) it was time for us to leave the Old Town of Lijiang (again) and fly to Chengdu. Everything went well until we got to the airport at Chengdu and Debs realised she had either lost or had her purse stolen. Now, if you've ever been to Chengdu airport you'll kmow that no-one speaks english (and we only know 2 words of Chinese) s...

We gave ourselves just over 24 hours for this destination. It's a big city, but has one big attraction that we really wanted to see, the world's biggest (and has to be the coolest) Panda Sanctuary. 10km away, they have about 40 giant pandas and panda cubs, and we took about a bazillion pictures. About 5 hours north 2 new cubs were born about 5 d...