Blogs from Xiangcheng, Sichuan, China, Asia

Asia » China » Sichuan » Xiangcheng September 26th 2012

Since our last blog we have been in two small towns - Kangding for three nights and Xiangcheng for two. KANGDING Kangding is a stop over for most people to get from Chengdu (where we saw the panda's) into western Sichuan. Once you head west of Chengdu the mountains start and traffic slows. We took our very first Chinese bus from Chengdu to Kangding. We had planned on finding a hostel in Kangding, but since we got off the bus late and it was raining, we decided to follow a little old lady to her hotel and she hooked us up with a clean double room for 80 yuan. Our first double bed and our cheapest accommodations in China! The room ended up being pretty nice. It was cold and the walls were thin (we could ... read more

Xiangcheng/乡城

Asia » China » Sichuan » Xiangcheng February 8th 2011

Driving to Xiangcheng

campsoup

(Long time no blog. Still continuing the Spring Festival tale from where it left off.) I took a cab to the sub station well before the sun came up and to my surprise found three other foreigners also waiting. It appears that the Yunnan and Sichuan highlands are quite popular travel destinations for foreigners. Especially since the 2008 change in requirements for foreigners entering Tibet, maybe more and more people are traveling to Deqin County in Yunnan and the Garze Tibetan Autonomous region in Sichuan. There was a crunchy granola French couple and a long-term traveler Canadian guy. I tried to chat with the French couple, but they weren't that friendly, their English wasn't that good, and they seemed to be pretty into criticizing the Chinese government and tourism industry. For example, they referred to Xinjiang ... read more

Kangding-Litang-Xiangcheng (Alto tibet chino)

Asia » China » Sichuan » Xiangcheng August 5th 2007

Camino de Litang a Xiangcheng

PYL

www.diariodeunviaje.com (todo en nuestra pagina web) KANGDING (5/8) Hoy queremos ir a Kangding. Para ir a la estacion de larga distancia de Leshan, se puede coger el bus 9 o 12. Llegamos a las 7:30h a las taquillas pero ya no hay billetes a Kangding. Habiamos leido que habia otra forma de ir en caso de que esto pasara. Coger un bus de Leshan a Ya'an y enlazar con otro bus de Ya'an a Kangding. Asi lo hicimos. A las 8:00h salimos en bus hacia Ya'an (46¥/p) y llegamos en 2h 30m. En el bus fuimos delante de una abuela con su nieto que era un bebe, y durante el trayecto se meo varias veces en el suelo del bus. Los bebes no utilizan pañales. Les llevan con los pantalones rejados de lado a lado, dejando ... read more

Uzupelnienie...

Asia » China » Sichuan » Xiangcheng July 22nd 2007

wyprawa2007

Ostatnie kilka dni, ktore spedzilem w Chinach, to pasmo niesamowitych przygod, wrazen oraz dziwnych, ale za to ciekawych losowych zdarzen. Rozszerze teraz troche wydarzenia z ostatnich dni. Kilka dni temu, po 4 noclegach w Chengdu, ktore pozwolily nam naladowac nasze akumulatory wyruszylismy w nieznane. Dlaczego nieznane? Poniewaz decyzje o wyprawie w te rejony podjelismy dopiero na miejscu w Chinach. Nie wiedzielismy czego do konca mozemy sie spodziewac, poniewaz nasze przewodniki posiadaja jedynie szczatkowe informacje o tych terenach... Z Chengdu do Kangdingu wyruszylismy o 6: 30 rano. Podroz trwala okolo 9 godzin. Powolna wspinaczka autobusu w co raz wyzsze partie gor dostarczyla mnostwa emocji i wrazen tego dnia. Pomijajac ciasne zakrety na ktorych czesto dochodzi do wyprzedzania, kiedy z jednej strony pionowa sciana pnie sie w gore, a z drugiej strony towarzyszy 1km przepasc na ... read more

Capital of the White Wolf state

Asia » China » Sichuan » Xiangcheng June 1st 2007

Mandala

Jabe

The 9 hour bus trip to Xiangcheng was a trial, with the first 7 and a bit hours being on an unsurfaced road that was bumpy as hell. One bonus was that there was a driver-enforced smoking ban. Our chosen guesthouse had no laundry facilities (and it subsequently turned out that was the case for the entire town) so I had to resurrect long-unused handwashing skills. The guesthouse was also something of a fly trap, so I had some fun with a flip-flop before realising it was a losing battle. Since the RG language section is only 15 pages in a 1,200+ page book, we decided to get the section photocopied so we could carry it around more easily in the phrasebook. We found a photocopying shop and indicated what we wanted doing, which the guy ... read more

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