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No.2 South 1st Section, 1st Ring Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610000, China
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Fire breathing - Sichuan Opera
Stairs
Dujiangyan Irrigation Project
Hiking trail
The dishes in the vegetarian restaurant of the Wenshu temple have names like: pork intestines in brown sauce, beef with rice, chicken with noodles and more. But the trick is they are all vegetarian, made of soy products, but it has the color and texture of the above mentioned. The bacon really tasted like crunchy baked bacon, and the beef got stuck between our teeth like beef sometimes does. We were amazed, and maybe a little suspicious.......was it really vegetarian ??
Along the main roads we saw a lot of huge advertisement billboards, often many storeys high, hiding the buildings behind.
Except the bikes and the huge billboards in the streets, it was very striking to see the many girls, wearing chic and lascivious dresses with thin nylon stockings without suspenders, so rolling a bit down. Mostly we saw, that the girls kept their money and toiletpaper in their stockings.
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Map for going to Chengdu and north.
I went there in Autumn 2001, sections of the mountain and village road conditions maybe dangerous to drive through during July-Aug-September rainy months, there were heavy flood damages in the Sept 2001. (Weather: http://www.t7online.com) There are risks of roads been damaged by the swelling Min River in the basin area during those months. The journey to JiuZhaiGou was really dangerous and is still quite arduous now which is why most of the local travel guides leading tourist groups to JiuZhaiGou are males and not females.
Places that I went:
JiuZhaiGou, HuangLong, HaiLuoGou, Mt-Siguniang(Oriental Alps)
- JiuZhaiGou (~3000m)- the secret to quality of its beauty lies in its water
- HuangLong (up to about 3800m) - famous for its calcite deposits and its very peculiar structural formations throughout that reserve area. The water collection in those ? is quite full in autumn. But dries up in winter and spring. There is a similar nature tourist place in Turkey.
- HaiLuoGou (~3000m)- is the first glacial park in China. It is special for its very very low attitude of the occurence of the glacier tongue, this is part of the Mt-Gongga. There are a few sulplurous-smelling open-air spa pools in the area newly opened for about a year only.
- Mt-Siguniang (~3100m) - the flowers bloom in the summer, so there's very little colours of nature in autumn
These are some nice navigable panoramic shots of the places at
http://chinavr.net/sichuan/
http://chinavr.net/sichuan/huanglong.htm
Chengdu Airport: www.cd-airport.com
Medical supplies, doctors and facilities are scarce even in the hottest tourist destinations in the mountains.
Take good care not to catch a flu or fall sick when the weather is cold and damp in autumn (most parts of Sichuan have high humidity ratings),
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Wolong is the hometown of Chinese pandas, which number less than 1000 in total in the world currently, seems to be quite a popular visiting point with English-speaking foreigners, and most of the donations for panda conservation research are mainly from either the Americans or Japanese. Apart from the protection enclosure at Wolong, there is another newer research centre (maybe going to be the headquaters) for panda conservation work currently being set up at Bi Feng Xia in Ya-An, where the Giant Panda was first discovered. Ya-An lies along the westwards route from Chengdu, I am not sure whether this will be opened to tourists. There is an exciting travelogue report in Chinese at this
http://www.xh028.com/view.asp?recno=9542 which is a short document of the giant panda research team's encounters in the 3rd large-scale panda habitat investigation project. You may try this http://babel.altavista.com/tr translator, but the output is a bit difficult to read and comprehend.
Sichuan Province currently has the most number of famous natural scenic spots in China compared to other provinces. (source: Xinhua, Nov 2001)
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