Chengdu

Chengdu is a smaller city, only about 7 mio. citizens ;). It doesn’t have many attractions but it has a great and chill atmosphere. Monasteries and teahouses are everywhere, bars with live music and lots, lots of beer.  The hostel we booked is fabulous, great staff and great people. We made a lot of friends there. Out of an advice we decided to visit the national park, north Sichuan. Happy to have a nice hike in nature soon, we got in the bus for a 10h journey, without complaints. Driving through majestic scenery and a lot of Tibetan villages, we arrived at the park…… and we were shocked again. Thousands of Chinese tourists were there, it was like an ant village. Chinese people with money are lazy, so to our surprise there was a bus in the park, that ships a load of Chinese to the most important places. We decided to not buy a bus ticket and walk up, hahah you should have seen the surprised and wondering faces of the staff there, weird white people. But it was a good decision not to take the ticket.  We had a great hike, ALONE in beautiful scenery.

Around lunchtime we reached the middle, and figured out that they don’t check the tickets for the bus anymore, so we did the last 20 km by bus. (Not advised if you have claustrophobia) Chinese everywhere, walking slow, punching and pushing, spiting, farting and taking lots of pics.  After one day in the really beautiful but overcrowded park we just wanted to go back to Chengdu and spend some relax days there.

We experienced a Waterpark in the biggest building in the world (Global center), and really it is fucking big. The Waterpark was awesome; we had a great time there, although we had to wear a life vest in 1.2m deep water. (90% of Chinese can’t swim). We did some K TV, for the unknowing people it is Karaoke and it was great.