Month: September 2018

In the morning we drove to the small town of Xindhe to change my brakes. The rear brakes were well-worn but the front ones werent too bad. The road to … Read more

Driving south through Yunnan Province, the landscape became almost sub-tropical with densely forested mountains with terraces of maize and rice and plantations of bananas and other fruits. A long drive … Read more

]We took the motorway through a weird landscape of conical hills which are similar to the stone forest but where the surrounding soft rock has not yet been worn away … Read more

In the morning, Jim and I went to see the Golden Temple, but weren’t too sure where to go because it was early in the morning and there were no … Read more

We got held up in the morning by an accident on the road between Duoshaguan and the motorway, and the planned visit to a Taoist temple was a bit of … Read more

Travelling south-west out of Chengdu we passed mile after mile of high-rise flats including the biggest building in the world, and proceeded through some rather boring landscape of Sichuan Province. … Read more

We went to see the Panda Research Centre in the morning. We went six years ago and, as expected, the number of people visiting the pandas has increased geometrically as … Read more

Slept in in the morning and went to see the Wenshu Monatery in the afternoon. The main prayer hall was beautiful, but somewhat disturbing as a young girl was in … Read more

The drive to Chengdu was uneventful. A big city of 8 million, or 18 million including its satellite towns. People live in massive tower blocks and the motorways cross each … Read more