An-e 158 Hotel (Chengdu Wuhou)
Travel Blogs from Chengdu
The shopping experience what in the Tibet
... The price is cheaper, from 5 yuan to dozens of yuan. Jade, silver, and the thangka which you don't know what's what quality, you would better care to buy. The boss of the store which along the street is most like to recommend the turquoise and beads, and red coral, densely preserved necklace, bracelet. The turquoise general is sold in grams, the cheap for three to five yuan a gram, the good is offered for fifteen to ...
Chengdu - Panda Reserve
... earthquake, which seriously affected the panda population and habitat. Pandas feed primarily on bamboo. They have developed large molars for grinding up the stalks, but are not well adapted to digesting them and so spend almost all of their waking hours eating. Bamboo flowers and dies off simultaneously over huge areas, periodically depriving giant pandas of their food source. In the past, they ...
Couple days in Chengdu
... they used Jocelyn as the weakest link (leverage) to make me go back. By sending her first (them twisting their stories too) and getting me to agree to go with her – I can/could refuse to go, but they have more power over her. They are going to pay me a sizeable bonus for going back though, which I guess isn’t so bad :D.
All a bit frustrating as I only just got settled in my new ...
Cloud & Telecom
... family deeply and thank goodness for Skype - I joined my family for a virtual after-dinner chat by having the laptop on their end placed at my usual seat at the dining table! Other things I miss - "dry heat" (much cooler today but still quite humid), texas sky, ice in drinks, regular exercise routine (schedule too busy and have favored sleep over morning workouts so far). Things I don't miss - driving, back-to-back conference calls.
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The Great Wall of China (pun intended)
... off. It was not easy for my socialite self to be the antisocial one, but its what I needed. Look at me, I'm growing up!
I considered not publishing this blog since its not as cheery as some, but I want you guys to read about the full China experience; good and bad! :) Hope you enjoyed it; sorry if its a bit rambly! I'll try to write again this week since I actually wrote this one on Sunday!
20 more days in China!
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