Andrea Hearts Traveling

The boys from Luxembourg recommend to stop in Shaxi Instead of going directly to Dali and I am so glad I took their advice!

(To get to Shaxi I had to take a bus from Lijian to Jianchuan and then a local bus to Shaxi)

The whole point to come to Lijiang was to hike the tiger leaping gorge which is supposed to be one of the most amazing hikes in china. After the big bummer of foggy emeishan I wasn't sure anymore if I wanted to hike and see nothing but when I got here the weather was very different and it looked like it was going to be beautiful.

5:30am taxi ride to the airport is no fun!

I think it’s ok to say that the biggest attraction in Chengdu are the pandas!!! So on my last day I woke up super duper early and by 6:30am I was at the bus stop across from my hostel to catch the early bus to the Panda breading and research center.

I did a lot of research about the center and learned that pandas are only active really early in the morning during their feeding time so one must get there right when they open. Just like the koalas in Australia, the pandas in China love to sleep and because they don’t get many nutrients from the bamboo they are really low in energy.

I was one of the first people in and headed towards the back of the park where most of the pandas are. While I was walking I hear somebody shout “Andrea”, I turned around and it was a couple from NYC that I met a couple of days ago.

I loved Chengdu!

The city is not all that exciting but the hostel I stayed in made it such a cool experience and the people I met made the trip even more fun!

I spent one morning at the people's park with thousands of Chinese people. The people watching was simply amazing and I had lots of great fun just watching people.
The park is pretty big and there are many activities to do such as rowing a boat, or feeding the koi fish by the pond.

Here is the bonsai garden with tons of cute bonsai trees.

Shaxi

Tiger leaping gorge!

Lijiang

Pandas Pandas Pandas!!!!!!

Chengdu!

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