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11 Reviews Here I want to show readers how they sell electric bicycles, its just a simple shop like selling bicycles, the price is cheap, take a closer look. You can simply throw away your petroleum or gasoline...
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Pandas Chengdu
3 Reviews To anyone wishing to visit Chengdu, My wife and I visited Chengdu last June 9, 10 & 11, 2006. We had made internet arrangements for our transportation with an English speaking driver before we left...
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People's Park Chengdu
4 Reviews And people were having tea by the lake side. The bamboo chairs were really beautiful. However, it seemed like they will gradually be replaced by ugly blue plastic ones. I bypassed the Mahjong area as...
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Chinese Medicine Chengdu
3 Reviews From many goods at the market I could recognize what it was or where it was made of. But at some stalls and in some shops I saw very intriguing stuff with not the slightest idea what it could be. So...
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Modern Chengdu Chengdu
4 Reviews On this street as well as many city centers in China, one will come across a lot of foreign investments notably in terms of shopping centers & foreign branded goods. MacDonald is a household name in...
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Leshan Giant Buddha Chengdu
2 Reviews Leshan Giant Buddha The Leshan Giant Buddha is located at Leshan City, where in the southwest of Sichuan ,being renowned in the world for its graceful natural scenery and a mysterious cultural legacy...
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On the way to Tibet Chengdu
4 Reviews In Chengdu, I used the China Comfort Travel agency to organise my permit and flight to Lhassa, Tibet. I was very happy with their price/condition and efficiency. You can contact David Liu who speaks...
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JiuZhaiGou Chengdu
2 Reviews Chengdu is the place from where you start to the nature reserve of Jiuzhaigou. Please see more in my travelogue for ashort view of my Jiuzhaigou-pics! Or go to my Juizhaigou-Page, where I tell you...
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The local guide together with the Singaporean guide tries to sell us some Tibetan medication that will prevent motion sickness and high altitude sickness. We thought that this “Hong Jing Tian” is sleeping pill syrup which makes you tired and sleepy and stop you from feeling it. It’s all in the mind.
I find the female tour guides of Jiuzhaigou to be very friendly and knowledgable in the customs and the region. Since we are travelling in a group, we managed to get one guide of the Zhuang tribe to ourselves plus a comfortable bus to drive us around.
Like many other places in this part of the world, it is important to bargain when you are buying things, even to the extend of cutting the price by more than half. Once you have reach a point where the price cannot be lowered any more, I feel that it is no point trying but give the money to the old people. After all, they are leading a hard life and this money is used to support their family and build better facilities for them.
I was lucky to catch beautiful sunrise among the mountains in Sichuan, as shown in this photograph. Sichuan is really a beautiful place in my opinion, but some parts can be remote for the less adventurous.
Organized group tours are the easiest and probably best way to travel in China, it is just not suited for independent travelers, especially if you can t readChinese. The tour I booked for Sichuan Province was through Shanghai China International Travel Service Co. at 3380 RMB including airfare (at 1100), breakfast (nothing to write home about, so I wont), and accommodations. Keep in mind, the tour includes frequent stops to selected stores (of course, the tour operator gets paid for bringing you in) where you can buy crystal jewelry (pretty butnot a precious metal), souvenirs made from yaks and their horns (combs, jerky, knives, etc.), and herbal medicines--I was diagnosed with a heart condition,kidney problems, arthritis, etc. which can be remedied with the herbs/roots sold in the stores--ow convenient. The doctors' examinations consisted of seeing my tongueand feeling the pulse in my...
Gezhou Dam After the Three Gorges Project is completed, Gezhou Dam will become the second largest dam built on the Yangtze. The dam is 2,561 meters in length and 70 meters in height. The annual generating capacity is 14.1 billion (109) kwh.Fengdu With temples constructed on Mingshan Hill by the riverbank and many statues of ghosts and devils moulded in the temples, Fengdu County is called " a devil city". According to legends, it is considered as a hell.Zhang Fei's Temple Zhang Fei's Temple was built at the side of the mountain near the river in memory of Zhang Fei, a famous general in the Kingdom of Shu (the Three Kingdoms Period, 220-265).City of Emperor White(Baidicheng) Located at the entrance to the Qutang Gorge, it is a famous historical site on the upper reaches of the river, where Liu Bei (the king of the Kingdom of Shu), when dying, asked his prime minister Zhuge Liang to look...
The Qutang gorge, known for its magnificence, is only 8 kilometers long with many scenic spots, such as Meng Liang Staircase, the Ancient Zhandao (board walk and footpath). Kui Gate, Seven-Gate Cave, Bellows Gorge, and Rhinoceros Watching the Moon. beautiful
One of my fondest memory of Sichuan is the cheerful children and people, who are very friendly though they lead a simple life especially those in the mountain regions.
This is not an ad and I dont have a vested interest, but Ctrip.com is a great resource for hotels and travel in China.Just be aware that the English site hasmarginally higher hotel prices.
During the three Kingdoms era in China round 230AD, Sichuan was part of the famous Shu kingdom under the legendary Liu Bei.
Shangri-La Hotel Chengdu Chengdu
2 Reviews and 184 Opinions I stayed in Shangri-La Chengdu by accident as Kempinski had double booked me and there were no...
InterContinental Resort Jiuzhai Paradise Jiuzhaigou
5 Reviews and 96 Opinions We stayed for a couple of nights at the Intercontinental, apparently from a rebranded locally...
Hua Sheng Hotel E'Meishan Leshan
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