Chengdu

Chengdu-Fab guesthouses and Panda Country

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August 8th 2007
So here we are in Panda country. This is our last night in Chengdu, situated in the Sichuan province of western China. In total we spent 8 nights here, mainly because our guesthouse (more on that later) was just so warm and welcoming. We arrived here on Wednesday 1st after our first experience with the joy that is the "Hard Sleeper" train. Tomorrow we leave on yet another jet train. I'm starting t ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more