Zhuo Ma Home-Stay

This is the living room of the house where we did our home-stay. It was pretty cool to see such a beautifully decorated Tibetan home.

Jiuzhaigou

After having seen all the highlights of Chengdu, we took a plane to Jiuzhaigou, to visit the park there, and then travel north by bus.

This was a part of China we had not seen yet: Tibetan people, high mountains, yaks and lots of Buddhist things.

These pictures are from our afternoon stroll, close to where we stayed: a home-stay at a Tibetan house.
 

Also: Foodz

Red Pandas

One More Adult Giant Panda

Spot the Differences

(from the series, known by connoisseurs only, "Table Manners").

Young Giant Pandas

Adult Giant Panda

Chengdu Hotpot

Another thing that is famous from Chengdu is hotpot.



This is usually not our first choice of foodz, but we had to try it as it is famous here. Also, the air just outside this restaurant was very fragrant, which was obviously a very good sign.

We also suck at cooking our foodz in a hotpot, and somehow this is easily spotted by waiters. We were very happy that we received some help.



Meatz before...



... and after.



Some stomach.



Overall, I think this was probably the best wet hotpot experience we had. Still not completely convinced by the concept, however.

More Chengdu

Chengdu

One of the main attraction of Chengdu, is having tea in a teahouse in the People's Park.

The park was extremely lively, with people playing Chinese chess...



... a large meat market of a different flavor than the previous post (similar to what we saw in Dalian two and a half years ago).



There was dancing, and performances by minorities and seemingly random untalented people singing karoake.

Chengdu Food Market

Chengdu

After the wedding, it was time for some traveling! First destination: Chengdu, about 22 hours by train from Nanyang. We slept like babies in our soft berths.



These are pictures of our first lunch in Chengdu.



Chengdu lies in Sichuan province. This is easy to spot by all the chili oil in the different dishes.