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By LiuMing
November 22nd 2009
Chongqing Asia » China » Chongqing » Chongqing
Chongqing [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 24th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=455059]

Chongqing city center chaos
People's liberation monument in Chongqing
Old Chongqing

Our 15th day in the far east was also our last morning on the Sunshine China cruise ship before it docks in the early morning in Chongqing (the sister city of my hometown Brisbane). We only had a half day in Chongqing before heading off to Guilin after lunch. We docked in this huge city with a population over 30million (well the municipality of Chongqing) around 8 am. Of course we get the standard merchants when you get off any form of transport trying to sell some sort of kite, map, scarf, jade etc. We headed off to the Chongqing Zoo [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 5th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=450914]

q-IMG 2663 - Chongqing Zoo - Judith with Lan Xiang
q-IMG 2666 - Chongqing Zoo - Me with Lan Xiang
q-IMG 2674 - Chongqing Zoo -Xin Xing and Chuan Xing

By Wilder
October 24th 2009
Slow Boat Through China Asia » China » Chongqing » Chongqing
Slow Boat Through China Climbing onto the bus which would take me to the pier in nearby Yichang, I began wondering just what I had gotten myself into. I had been spent the past 36 hours in buses, trains, cars, and tourist offices. It had been over 2 days since I had enjoyed the luxury of a hot shower, or the comfort of a real bed. And I was now consigning myself to yet another bus ride, followed up by an additional 3 days in a cramped, communal cabin while suffering from the flu. Or food poisoning. I wasn’t sure which [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 24th 2009 | 75 Views | [diary=447833]

The Gorges
More temples...
Setting off...

By Wilder
October 23rd 2009
The Long Way Round Asia » China » Chongqing » Chongqing
The Long Way Round China is big. This is something that I had known, in an abstract kind of way, before I had ever decided to descend onto its proverbial doorstep. The fact crystallized even more when I began researching the provinces and cities that I wanted to visit during my 3 week stint here. But it wasnt until I had my first 18 hour train ride that I began to really understand just how massive this country is. The word colossal comes to mind. Trying to "do" China in 3 weeks would be like trying to coax a tiger into [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 23rd 2009 | 68 Views | [diary=447447]

Eating in style..
Chongqing Hot Pot
Newfound friends...

By terrio
October 8th 2009
Chongqing Express! Asia » China » Chongqing » Chongqing
Me and Jacie arrived in Chongqing at about midday, four hours later than scheduled. We had been in the amazing soft sleeper carriage so we didn't mind at all (in fact, I was quite pleased, this was one of the cleanest places in China I'd been) The man in our cabin was hardly there and didn't snore at all (although I was earplugged and eye-masked up so he could have been performing cabaret for all I know, but I think he may have just been asleep) The Chinese girl had a cold and made snuffling noises all the time so as [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 22nd 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=447268]


Stilwell Museum must be a excellent place for foreign visitors in Chongqing , especially for Americans. In order to commemorate the outstanding contritution by Gen.Stilwell in the joint resistance against the Japanese invasion, promote the mutual understanding and friendship between US and China, the Chongqing Municipal Government set up the "Stilwell Research Center"in Chongqing in Oct,1991 and the former stilwell residence has been arranged as the "Chongqing Stilwell Museum". The museum isnt very large bur delicate, there are exhibition of beding room ,dining room and council chamber for [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 13th 2009 | 23 Views | [diary=436169]

Cars donated by American Veteran
Inscription wrote by Roosevelt for Chongqing
The apperance of the museum

My 5 hour bus ride to Chongqing was very uneventful. I had the usual Chinese stares from everyone else on the bus who look at you at first presumably thinking you got on by mistake, but when it becomes evident you’re staying, they forget about you and you become accepted into the circle. So the journey went, and the familiar ache in my neck let me know that at some point I had fallen asleep against the window. I had a mild feeling of panic about halfway when it occurred to me that no one had told me what to do [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 31st 2009 | 129 Views | [diary=432627]

Going down in the cable car to the boat.
Chongqing. Neontastic at night. Not the greatest picture but you get the gist...
One of the BETTER shots taken by my self appointed photographer.

If there has ever been a city on this trip that I can feel pretty certain I never will live in, or want to live in, Chongqing is it. We have been to seven Asian countries on this trip, plus Hong Kong and Macau. That is a list of many different languages, cultures, religions, and foods. One of the questions we get asked most frequently by people is how do you communicate if you don’t speak the language? We answer that we try to learn a few words like hello, please, and thank you. Then, we just wing it. In most [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 12th 2009 | 147 Views | [diary=427253]

Enjoying our Dinner
Hot and Spicy
Our Waitress

By Laz
July 22nd 2009
China and Beyond VIII Asia » China » Chongqing » Chongqing
My last full day in Chongqing was filled by a tour to Baoding Shan at Dazu, about 100km west of Chongqing. When I first signed up for the tour through a friend, I had envisioned a comfortable bus with reclining seats and full windows with bottled water...afterall, the cost was not minimal. Well, the cost may not have been minimal but the tour bus was. Taken by a minibus to a lesser minibus seemed somewhat redundant and I was a bit embarrassed when I started to board the bus I have described above. Much to my chagrin, I was packed into [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 22nd 2009 | 46 Views | [diary=421101]

Chongqing - Dazu Grotto - Buddha and Friend
Chongqing - Dazu Grotto - Buddha Contemplates the Laz
Chongqing - Dazu Grotto - Heaven is what You Make It

By Laz
July 19th 2009
China and Beyond VII Asia » China » Chongqing » Chongqing
Chengdu was a fair city...it treated me right...it absorbed me and accepted me without reservations about my place of origin and the language I spoke. It is a place I could live in...a big city with that neighbourhood feel. Now it was off to Chongqing, the third biggest city in China with a name not as recognizable as numbers one and two (Beijing and Shanghai ). I left town in a taxi using that well rehearsed word for ' airport ' in my head ... ' jichang '. Having to repeat it to the driver several times, he taught me how [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 19th 2009 | 57 Views | [diary=419976]

Chongqing - Independence Tower
Chongqing - Three Gorges Museum
Chongqing - Between the Theatre from the Museum


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