| Chengdu, Part 2 |
[Mar. 19th, 2007|01:06 am] |
Sorry for the long delay, but I was trying to figure out a good way to bypass the filter on the school's internet. Apparently, most blog sites are currently not allowed. Grrr... They did this before, but only for about a week, and this time it's at about 18 days.
Anyway, I obviously figured out a way around that, it's just annoying, because I can't stay signed in, and I can't access friends-only posts at all, even my own.
So, I left off with Chengdu. By the way, there was a little bit that was cut out of the last post because of bit of wrong code, so if you wondered why I was laughing about the green goat, you might want to go back and reread it. :-)
One of the other things I did in Sichuan was to visit a town near to Chengdu to see the tallest statue of Buddha in the world. I was sure that I had seen another statue billed as the "largest", but then I remembered that that one was laying on its side, so the one I saw probably is taller.
Anyway, it's located in a town called Leshan (Happy Mountain, which, you have to admit, is a great name for a town), and through a friend, we got a local guide (Alice), which is always a wonderful thing to have!
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Don't worry, there's still more to my vacation experiences that will be posted later! |
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| Chengdu, part 1 |
[Feb. 13th, 2007|10:38 pm] |
Six lovely weeks of vacation! (I hear my friend Mirna groan)
Well, this update will be about the first part of my vacation, which was in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Most of you have heard of Sichuan food (almost all Chinese restaurants in America claim Sichuan (Szechuan) style food). It's very delicious, but I warn the foreigner (even those who may think that their tongues are tough) to be wary of native Sichuanese claims that "it's not hot".
I stayed with some friends from home, who have some lovely children, both of whom love to feed fish.
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