Woke fairly early to head off to visit the panda base just outside Chengdu. The pandas feed in the morning then are pretty lazy for the rest of the day. All we had to do is get on bus 69. Do you think we could find it?
After searching for a while and asking several people. We decided to give up and went to eat ice cream in KFC, very frustrated. Try again tomorrow....
Instead of visiting the pandas we looked around several pretty parks in Chengdu. There were many people dancing and practising Taichi.
We also came across a little stall where you spun the wheel, and whichever animal it landed on, the lady made it with melted sugar. The Chinese dragon she made was amazing!
We also wandered through another park packed with food stalls and visited an ancient tomb with many statues of musicians. After leaving the park we walked through the Tibetan area, which was really interesting. On our way home we tried to order some food by pointing at Chinese writing on a board, which we didn't understand. Luckily a young man who spoke English came to our rescue and told us we were ordering lung and we may not like it. He then advised us to try a local dish which tasted ok but made our lips feel really weird. It wasn't hot like chilli but left us with a strange sensation in our mouths!
After searching for a while and asking several people. We decided to give up and went to eat ice cream in KFC, very frustrated. Try again tomorrow....
Instead of visiting the pandas we looked around several pretty parks in Chengdu. There were many people dancing and practising Taichi.
We also came across a little stall where you spun the wheel, and whichever animal it landed on, the lady made it with melted sugar. The Chinese dragon she made was amazing!
We also wandered through another park packed with food stalls and visited an ancient tomb with many statues of musicians. After leaving the park we walked through the Tibetan area, which was really interesting. On our way home we tried to order some food by pointing at Chinese writing on a board, which we didn't understand. Luckily a young man who spoke English came to our rescue and told us we were ordering lung and we may not like it. He then advised us to try a local dish which tasted ok but made our lips feel really weird. It wasn't hot like chilli but left us with a strange sensation in our mouths!
