Flower Hotel Chengdu

Tues 9th Nov After a short flight we arrived at our hotel in Chengdu, The Jinhe Hotel and then went for a short orientation walk around some little streets. Weds 10th Nov Alot of travelling today, we go to visit The Giant Buddah which is the Worlds ...

... penalty. It was a fascinating place to go and I feel extremely privileged to have been and seen these amazing creatures up close. Chengdu is a very westernised city and we went to one of the local parks/market areas for an afternoon.  It was a very ...

... these for us.  Thank goodness we brought a gift with us! The restaurant they chose was the Gallery Bridge Hotpot Restaurant.  Chengdu is known for its hotpot and we expect that we will have a typical hotpot dinner.  Wrong.  We are in ...

... and he pointed towards one in the corner that was on a second floor, but it really looked like somebody's house. Tea houses in Chengdu are famous because people come here to drink tea, play cards or any other game and socialise. It is really nice to ...

... which is in Sichuan province. Today, there are over 40 types of tea in Sichuan including different strains of red, green and flower tea. Overtime, tea has become one of the main cash crops of Sichuan province. Above is a pie chart that illustrates the ...

... , it comes and goes and we are never quite sure what he is eating that does it. Another trip to Pharmacy In Chengdu, we went to a pharmacy to look for some Ibuprofen. This really enthusiastic pharmacist helped us and again we were turned away from ...

We awoke to yet another beautiful day in Beijing.  We had a busy day today as we were leaving Beijing to travel to Chengdu the capital of the Sichuan province. We met the group at 8:30 to start the day.  Our first stop was to take a pedicab ride ...

... them. If we'd been there ourselves we wouldn’t have understood anything of that. After lunch we had a four hour drive to Chengdu. The sun came out and we had a good run, through farming and paddy field landscape. There were many, many people ...

... loose green tea back into Australia or that it would taste the same without the preparation! Dinner was an experience at another Chengdu specialty - hotpot! Their hot pot is HOT -  lots of chillies and schezuan peppers floating in the water. We then ...

... , play Mahjong and relax in public tea houses. We had a lovely lunch and headed off by ourselves to explore the surrounding area. Chengdu has about 6,000,000 people. We found some beautiful parks and gardens and then headed of to find Dufu's thatched ...

... western toilets and time to spare! Was a quick breakfast then on a private bus to the airport for our next stop, Chengdu. Flew China Southern- brilliant, and was only an hour flight. Another private bus and we arrived at our hotel. Hotel highlight- ...

To get to Chengdu we had to take a short flight. Chengdu is a much nicer place than Xi'an. The moto they live by in Chengdu is "LIVE LIFE" and they seem true to it. We stayed in a much more traditional style of building with basic amenities and ...

Day 11 - Caught an early flight to Chengdu.Had a mooch about but there wasn't really a lot to do. Saw lots of people having their ears cleaned out on the street!. There were also lots of galleries and tea houses so we just pottered about. For ...

Our morning flight on China Eastern Air MU2341 to Chengdu unfortunately departs at 7:50 am. So we have to get up early.  Jing was so worry about us not getting breakfast at the hotel because it was too early she wanted the hotel to pack us ...

... and no horns honking and there we no horns honking and did I mention there were no horns honking? We got to chengdu at about 5pm and went to find our hotel. We found one only it didn't have a foreigner's license (whatever that is) so we walked and walked ...

... got to meet my sister and mom too - who everyone loved! :D  At the meeting we just chit-chatted about classes, credits, life in Chengdu, research projects, and ask any questions we had. Busy, busy day!  But good busy! ...

... ze na tych par dni co tu stravime nema zmysel ucit sa viac, trva par dni kym sa nove slovo naucite spravne vyslovovat! V Chengdu (populacia 4 mil , podla wikipedie 11 mil ludi...) sme stravili 3 pekne dni, mali sme stastie na dobre pocasie , super hostel, ...

I'm happy to report that our final days in Chengdu were lovely!  We went to the largest indoor herbal market (in the world I think!) and saw how raw Chinese Medicinal herbs are sold in vast quantities.  It was fun strolling through the HUGE ...

... If you look the map on this blog, you will see that we are close to Hong Kong and the earthquake was close to Chengdu, Sichuan provinence. It's approximately a 22 hour drive between the two of them, so we aren't even remotely close to where the problems ...