Massive restaurant night
8 April 2013
Last night in Chengdu, and I headed far out west, almost to the end of the metro, to an area called Golden Cow. I had read it was a big food stree....
Tibetan beggars
8 April 2013
My last full day in Chengdu, tomorrow I start the long journey home, which from hotel to my front door will take something like 26 hours! More on ....
Quiet night out
7 April 2013
I didnt get up to much as I thought I would be too tired from todays long hike. None the less I managed to wander around for 3.5 hours anyway. Sta....
Mountain full of temples
7 April 2013
Today I went to the Qingcheng mountain, a place which claims to be the source of the taoist religion, whatever that is. I read the wikipedia artic....
Mapo Doufu
6 April 2013
I didnt do very much tonight as I was saving my legs for the mountain hike tomorrow. What I did do was go to the home of Mapo Tofu, or as its call....
New old ancient streets
6 April 2013
I had not really been west of the city yet. Today was the day. And a glorious day it was, sun blazing. The weather forecast said it would be cold ....
An old street
5 April 2013
Ask and you shall receive. I intended to walk north and pick a restaurant for dinner, but on the way I saw a brown street sign (global color for p....
Lets try that again
5 April 2013
Yesterday I tried to go to the polar ocean world aquarium thing, and failed. Armed with further research, I decided to try again. The weather had ....
Drunken Chengdu
4 April 2013
It was very quiet out. I should really have paid more attention to that because it ended in me not really getting any dinner! First I went to the ....