We've spent the last 2 days exploring Cheng du and the area around the city, with Sarah as our guide/translator/all-around-good-sport.
Chengdu is in the southwest part of China. We went to a tea house and played Mahjong, which drew a large crowd to help us learn how to play the game. We went to a temple where there were many many statutes of Buddha
and we ate lunch at the teahouse there -- which was really good -- we even managed to eat mashed potatoes with chopsticks. Outside the temple, there were many shops
(there are many shops everywhere in Chengdu) but also women working on what they hope to be the world's largest piece of embroidery.
One of the days we took the bus (another experience) to see Dujiangyan, an irrigation project over 2,000 years old and Qingcheng Shan, a Daoist monastery and beautiful park. At the monastery, there is a lake where people take a boat across.
There was fog that hid the tops of the mountain but it was a very tranquil-feeling place.
Chengdu is in the southwest part of China. We went to a tea house and played Mahjong, which drew a large crowd to help us learn how to play the game. We went to a temple where there were many many statutes of Buddha
and we ate lunch at the teahouse there -- which was really good -- we even managed to eat mashed potatoes with chopsticks. Outside the temple, there were many shops
(there are many shops everywhere in Chengdu) but also women working on what they hope to be the world's largest piece of embroidery. 
One of the days we took the bus (another experience) to see Dujiangyan, an irrigation project over 2,000 years old and Qingcheng Shan, a Daoist monastery and beautiful park. At the monastery, there is a lake where people take a boat across. 
There was fog that hid the tops of the mountain but it was a very tranquil-feeling place.
1 comment:
hey! just thinking of you. glad to see you're having fun with your family :) keep taking pictures and sharing your stories, hope everything is great. still jealous of all your adventures, love,
evan
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