http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Sichuan/Chongqing/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Sichuan , Chongqing en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:02:01 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:02:01 UTC I have arrived in Chongqing. I have no internet yet hopefully I will get it set up tomorrow. I figured I would write my second blog on word and upload it later so I donrsquot forget my thoughts. I will hopefully also be uploading some photos for you to see the city.So first off I am incredibly impressed by the city the people and my apartment The city is gorgeous. It is also unimaginably http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Chongqing/blog-311093.html This is my first blog from my year long excursion to China. As a forewarning my grammar is likely to suckhellipI am a math major after all. I rarely write anything anymore. Hopefully this new habit of blog writing and teaching EnglishLanguage Arts at school will lead to my own grammar improvement.I am currently sitting in the Hong Kong airport which has free internet. It is 6am and my connect http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Chongqing/blog-309952.html Hi Everyone. We are still alive and well. Luckly we were on a boat on the Yangzi River when the earthquake hit so we didnt feel a thing although we were slightly worried that the Three Gorges Dam may collapse. We were very close to the epicentre.Unfortunatly right now we are in the centre of it all in Chongqing SICHUAN PROVINCE and trying to arrange transport out of here to Xian since the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Chongqing/blog-275970.html The journey from Chengdu to Chongqing took about four hours and went through some of the most fertile and hilly land in all of China. We passed through extensive areas of terraced rice paddies where we saw many of the farmers ploughing their ground in the traditional way that is using a simple wooden plough pulled by one or two oxen no wonder that this area is called the breadbasket of China http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Sichuan/Chongqing/blog-222015.html