http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Chongqing , Chongqing en-us Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:17:56 +0000 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:17:56 +0000 Chongqing http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-455059.html 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 stan http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-450914.html Slow Boat Through ChinaClimbing 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-447833.html The Long Way RoundChina 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 mass http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-447447.html 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 eyemasked up so he could have been performing cabaret for al http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-447268.html 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 Centerin Chongqing in Oct1991 and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-436169.html I have been in Chongqing for about 5 years. When I was a 18yearold girl I went to Chongqing for study. Now I choose to stay here to work. In retrospect it was a minute. I am not sure if I am mature or not. I don't know what I have gotten. Maybe exactly because that I always worry about personal gains and losses I am not happy. Yangtze Cruises Yangtze River Cruise Yangtze Tours China Yang http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-433765.html I don't like always complains about work too. I know the right thing is hardworking and hardworking and everlasting hardworking. Everyone has his difficulties. Everyone has his must. Maybe I just want to talk with somebody who can know what I think. I think I really need more friends. We can go out and have fun. So I can forget those matters temporarily.By the way I am a travel consultant. If a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-433761.html I have been working in Chongqing for about half a year. I went to work just after I graduated. At the first time I think everything is so fresh and even if it is hard to me I still want to smile to it. But right now I feel so tired. It bewilders me and depressed me. My daliy work is deviate from my duty. I always feel a strong antipathy towards it. Now I am so sorry that in order to full fill t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-433755.html 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 yoursquore 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-432627.html 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 donrsquot speak http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-427253.html Quite a trek to get to the Red Cliff Village. It's on the city bus line but it's over an hour and seemingly out in the middle of nowhereof course I know I'm still in the middle of the city. And just when you think your journey has been long enough you encounter stairs. More stairs than you ever imagine. There were so many I couldn't see the top when I was standing at the bottom. I know i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-423963.html Slept in today and then had a leisurely breakfast before heading out for a day of sightseeing. I had 3 planned stops The 3 Gorges Museum The People's Square and Great Hall and the Stilwell Museum. I found the 3 Gorges Museum with no trouble. Which is a miracle considering how messed up the bus system is in this town. The museum was huge and beautiful. And really warm. I mean I know it wa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-423959.html 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 seem http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-421101.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-419976.html Having booked ourselves onto a three night Yangtze River trip not the luxurious cruise that you may have in mind in our last hostel we made our way to Chongqing a huge city that marks the beginning of our river adventure. We left Xi'an on an overnight hard sleeper from a busy warm and dirty train station. Having waited for the stampede of Chinese passengers to enter the train we leisurely str http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-419363.html I'll be travelling to China around November...Anyone heading that direction. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-415567.html The Yangtze Three GorgesmdashA legend through past and presentYangtze is the largest river of China the third largest one in the world. Shersquos s also considered the mother river of our Chinese that created our culture and civilization. While the river flows through the mountain area covers Chongqing city and Hubei Province those twists and turns formed the Three Gorges one of the most kno http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-399592.html Day 911 March 2224 We set out the following day for Chongqing by train 4 hours. It was very comfortable and good to look out at the scenery. Lunch was of course noodles on the train which is the staple fare for train travel. Our leader arranged for the local hostel where we were going to have dinner to pick us up better than the crowded local bus. Arriving on the Yangtze waterfront winding http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-394041.html Bueno y asi llega el fin de mi estadia en ChongQing sii... no fue tan mal del todo la ciudad no tiene muuuuuuucho que ofrecer pero no esta mal del todo. Lo mejor es la comida callejera solo y solo solo si te gusta spicy food La vist desde el Dock en la noche amerita la caminada... street food so far la mejorEl Hostal un hit Tina's House cerca a la estacion del metro del super la http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-390737.html