Day 10 - Chengdu

A Tang Dynasty tomb.


武侯祠 aka Warlord temple entrance. This place worshiping the San Guo eras heroes such as Liu Bei, Guan Yi, Zhang Fei, Zhu Ge Liang etc.


A pond inside the temple


One of the many temple




A replica of the Tao garden where the trios sworn their brotherhood


A replica of Zu Ge Liang hut


These are silos that stored grain


Zu Ge Liang chariot replica


Walking towards Liu Bei Tomb, behind this wall is his actual burried place


The frontal of the Lie Bei temple


Some cartoon replicas of the San Guo heroes, these are lantern actually and they will look good if lighted up at night


Our final program, foot massage and hard selling of chinese medicine, their modulus operandi are similar, the price of the items are heavily inflated, so caveat empto...buyer beware!!


And finally at Chengdu airport, we were late so the scene was a bit chaos. Some members got bump off due to plane overbook. So this is the only sour note to our otherwise enjoyable trip.

Day 9 - Chengdu

We visted the Panda breeding farm, here we can see real panda within meter far.


Unfortunately the weather was unkind, so it was a splash and dash kind of visit


Next stop, local flower market where you can buy all sorts of plant here






Our next stop, silk factory, this is silk extraction machine. Again you can buy nice silk products towards the end of the tour unfortunately I don't have much pictures to show this time


A shot from Chun Xi road, the main shopping street of Chengdu. You can see some of our female tour mates are so motivated

Day 8 - Chengdu

Back to Chengdu, at night we went for the Sichuan Opera show. This is something you should not miss.






变脸 Bian Lian or "change face" in direct english translation. The master can change his mask in split second. A special skill that not make known to public

Day 8 - Taoping

This morning, we were brought to a honey farm. You can learn and sample a few types of the unique highland honey. Of course you can buy some from the shop from at the end of the tour.


Again, canola plantation are everywhere in this season


Another up close shot


桃坪羌寨 - About 163km from Chengdu. Build around 111BC. Last read there are still about 98 Qiang families staying here.












Dried corns.




Washing around the stream.






The living room in one of the Qiang house.






This is a restaurant and this is where our lunch break too.






Some Qiang children.

Day 7 - Songpan

The journey continue. There were some fallen rocks at the front on our way back, as a results traffic jammed for a few miles but was cleared in half an hour time. Dangerous? Probably but this is pretty normal for this narrow and winding road. So no risk no gain for urban people like us.


Our location is still pretty high up on the mountain, look at the road that we are going to descent to.


Hydro power station are everywhere throughout the journey


Next, the zhang sourvenior shop, you can buy all the handicrafts and precious stones especially the Tian Zu if you are interested.


The entrance.


The were some lodging around the town.


Lunch at this roadside restaurant, you can bargain for from local leather upholstery


Keep a close eye on your hunt, while there are some are genuine handmade, most of them are actually mass production synthetic fabrics from city factories.


After lunch, pass by this town call Songpan