Blogs from Chongqing, Chongqing, China, Asia - page 4

Jacob and Lynn met us at the Chongqing airport late Sunday evening after our 21 hour odyssey from the time we left our house, an amazingly short time for traveling nearly halfway around the world. Lynn, whose full name is Xiao Chenlin, drove us in the family car back to the Yubei district, where she and her parents live in a 2-bedroom apartment on the 3rd floor of a modern 32-story building. She and Jacob found a nice hotel room for us in another 30 story building in their neighborhood, and, her parents refused to let us pay for it. So we are their guests while we are here. Early this morning we walked with Jacob and Lynn through a nearby park to a tennis court in a residental complex. We explored while they played a ... read more

Chongqing is famous as a historical city, hot pots and as one of the 4 "furnace cities" in China because of the high summer temperature. Besides all these, it also has plenty of natural landscape to offer. We booked a hotel car to take us to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Dazu Grottoes to see the Buddhism theme stone carvings. We also visited Ciqikuo - a 1000 years old town. It used to be an important commercial centre. Today, it is one of tour attractions in Chongqing with shops catering to tourist. On the second day, we joined a 2 days tour to visit UNESCO World Heritage sites Furong Cave and the natural bridges rock forms in Wulong. Furong Cave is the only cave in China listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is one ... read more

I would feel so lucky that i have such a long winter vacation and also so early. Most of the universities in China won't start their vacation until late February.To kill time,i think ,think the best way is to go traveling with my friends. This year ,my friend John.Z.Y ,from Shanghai ,has a traveling plan around southeast China,including Chongqing ,Sichuan,Yunnan,Guizhou.Chongqing is his first destination.As a local resident ,i would be so glad to show him around the city.I am scheduled to pick him up at Jiangbei International Airport. Well-known as Foggy Capital,Chongqing has a foggy ,damp,moist weather in winter. it kept raining for a few days before his arrival. it was quite sunny and the sunlight was strong ,which made me feel warm. Fortunately,there was no traffic jam on the airport highway from downtown to ... read more

G'day. I'm sitting here drinking hot chocolate. I haven't drank this stuff since I lived in Iowa, it's awesome. Thanks to the last foreign teacher for leaving here for me. It's probably so old and expired that it's just making hallucinate which makes it seem much better than it actually is. Anyway, so i've been a little busy....oh dude.....Hues Corporation - Rock the Boat just came on. So a few weeks ago I had some kind of long holiday or something. I can't really remember the occasion, anyway, I took the opportunity to go to Chongqing with Shana and another friend Elaine so we could see the city. Frankly, I wasn't too wild on the idea of going there because I know there is absolutely nothing there tourist wise. But whatever. So we left at like ... read more

Today is our first full day cruising the Yangtze River... We spent last night anchored so didn't feel the effect that cruising would have on our sleeping and both slept well on quite comfortable beds. We got up super early this morning to have 'Early Bird Tea' in the Yangtze club. We then had 'Tai Chi' with the resident doctor, Dr. Wu. We have never done it before and although it is slow and only went for 15 minutes we were quite tired afterwards - what a great workout to start the day! We then went to the restaurant on the 1st deck for a buffet breakfast and met the people we would be eating all of our meals with at our assigned table. We had a great position next to the window and as Tam ... read more