Mountain garden
29 March 2013
The day looked fairly bright, so it was time to navigate to a nearby mountain. The one I selected had a world famous botanical garden, I know its ....
No panda photos
28 March 2013
Tonight there are absolutely no panda photos. Theres not many photos at all. I went to Sha Ping Ba, one of the other city centres, which is a laby....
Panda overload
28 March 2013
The metro system in Chongqing features elevated monorails. Not the silly little tourist ones like they are getting rid of in Sydney, but train siz....
I made my own dinner
27 March 2013
My hotel room has a full kitchen. I celebrated by making my own dinner, more on that later. If they were to remake bladerunner, it could be filme....
The waiting train
27 March 2013
In my previous visits to China, you just turned up to a train station in Shanghai, and bought a ticket for a train that was departing in the next ....
Eastern culture
26 March 2013
Tonight, I headed east, on foot. The east side of the city, and the next 5km further east, are the nicest parts of Chengdu I have seen so far. Nic....
Researching Pandas
26 March 2013
The main tourist feature of Chengdu is pandas. The entire worlds population of wild pandas live within an hour of here. Whenever you see baby pand....
Never so lost
25 March 2013
As the title suggests, I ended up lost, in a construction site, and then eventually unable to get to my destination at all. Similarly to previous ....
The plane
25 March 2013
Today I will address the lack of photo overload from yesterday. My route took me first West, through peoples park, which was great, then South to ....