I slept about twelve hours (as I had gone to bed at about 19:00) and I skipped the free hotel breakfast, since I figured that sleep was more important. I ate the second apple and the sports drink in hot water for breakfast. My flight to Guilin from Chengdu was at about 16:00 so my plan was to leave no later than noon as it would take no more than ( Read more... )

So what I could suss from the breakfast voucher, breakfast was on the 5th floor, which on the signs is labelled as a club or lounge. I went up and the room looked dark and devoid of people. But I heard loud music and found a girl tucked away I asked her about breakfast and she said ‘mei you’ which means ‘don’t have’. It was 15 minutes after ( Read more... )

I took the 15:00 bus from Zigong to Leshan I found out in line to get on the bus that there were two different routes to Leshan and when we got my ticket I paid extra for the nicer route. Dean was guessing that the bus would take about 3 hours. But it was 3 hours from Chengdu to Zigong and if you look on a map Leshan is between Zigong and Chengdu ( ( Read more... )