Old China

Ayla's China experience

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September 5th 2016
China has been a lot of fun so far, I’m loving the food here, but a lot of it is very sweet and greasy. It has been raining quite a bit in Chengdu and the weather is just beginning to get a bit cool. So far we have been to 3 museums which were pretty good. In the first week we went to the Panda Zoo for the day which was fun but all the pandas pretty much slept the whole time. On the 4th ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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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