We took the high-speed
TRAIN to Chengdu:
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| We actually brought 4 students with us. Eetu is from Finland, and attends another Chongqing High School. |
Fast Trains
are being built all over China:
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| This is "our street", a sweet, little tourist section, in the heart of Chengdu. |
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| We stayed at the Dragon Town International Youth Hostel. We shared a room, with 8 bunk-beds. Each (and every) morning, we awoke to find 2 new room-mates, travelers from all over the world. |
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| Caroline, with these two LIVING "statues". They performed daily, on our street, displaying the abacus, a traditional pipe, and the long-spouted teapot, for which Chengdu is so famous. |
Typical.......
The restaurant, across the street from our hostel. We ate there a couple of times.
This was the sign for our VERY TOURISTY street. It had been part of an old, historic district, that had since been fully restored.......very popular pedestrian streets, often packed with tourists!
The manager of our Dragon Town Hostel took us to a co-owned "Tea House" (for which Chengdu is most famous), for noodles-and-fried-egg dinner, tea, and Mah Jong lessons, until nearly midnight!
***We plan to buy an automatic Mah Jong Table (national game) upon arriving back home in America.
The central courtyard of our hostel was a wonderful place for Chris to sit and use his laptop computer:
We met David, a 32-year-old from Ohio, just "hanging out," in China. David spent a lot of time borrowing our laptop, updating his blog sites and e-mail.
On our first night in Chengdu, we treated David to the Sichuan Opera.....How can one visit this city without taking in the opera?
Chris enjoyed long talks with David.
Supporting David's hot dog sales:
Wonderful, 3-dimensional art:
Three streets away, there was a most historic street, with information panels describing specific points to ponder.
Then, and now.........
a pineapple vendor, selling from a 3-wheeled bicycle.
(I bought one of her special, little pineapple-carving tools......)
Most of the house-plants that we enjoy in our homes in America, originally came from CHINA !
Last, but not least, Chengdu had cool toilets!
This was the sign for our VERY TOURISTY street. It had been part of an old, historic district, that had since been fully restored.......very popular pedestrian streets, often packed with tourists!
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| Traditional musical instruments, made from gourds. (This photo was taken for Aunt Jane.) |
The manager of our Dragon Town Hostel took us to a co-owned "Tea House" (for which Chengdu is most famous), for noodles-and-fried-egg dinner, tea, and Mah Jong lessons, until nearly midnight!
***We plan to buy an automatic Mah Jong Table (national game) upon arriving back home in America.
The central courtyard of our hostel was a wonderful place for Chris to sit and use his laptop computer:
We met David, a 32-year-old from Ohio, just "hanging out," in China. David spent a lot of time borrowing our laptop, updating his blog sites and e-mail.
On our first night in Chengdu, we treated David to the Sichuan Opera.....How can one visit this city without taking in the opera?
Chris enjoyed long talks with David.
Supporting David's hot dog sales:
Our street was also popular as a place for people to come to have their ears "worked on"!!!!
The street-side procedures that we observed involved surgical-lights, tuning forks, probes of all shapes and sizes, and sharp needles.
No, thanks!
Wonderful, 3-dimensional art:
Three streets away, there was a most historic street, with information panels describing specific points to ponder.
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| Bigger-than-life photos were combined with 3-D sculpture. |
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Then, and now.........
a pineapple vendor, selling from a 3-wheeled bicycle.
(I bought one of her special, little pineapple-carving tools......)
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| Traditional Tea-Pouring ceremony........the video posted below is well worth watching! So cool! |
Most of the house-plants that we enjoy in our homes in America, originally came from CHINA !
Last, but not least, Chengdu had cool toilets!
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