Xian - Chongqing
After a loong semester, I felt more like going to Hainan and lie on the beach for five weeks, rather than go through with my plans to travel around China one more with two friends of mine. But, having a happy reunion with Mads (aka. Madelene aka. Mad Dog) and Johan in Xian a couple of days ago made me change my mind.
We soon got tired of Xian. It's a city with persumably a lot of interesting historical sites, such as the teracotta warriors. If one is willing to spend some days doing long treks to these historical sites around Xian, it would probably be quite interesting. We however, decided not to, and the city Xian in itself is dead boring.
So we spend two nights at a nice hostel there, and then went to Chongqing. This is a city with a worse reputation than it deserves. There is not one songle straight street, and trying to find the way to anywhere is quite impossible. (This couldn't possibly have anything to do with that I'm bad at reading maps!)
The city is scattered over some hills and valleys, and it gives the architecture an interesting apearance. Even though it is quite polluted, like all Chinese cities, it has a certain character that I haven't found anywhere else in China.
However, restless as we are, we'll leave already tomorrow. We'll take a ferry down rivers on the Jiangzi, it will take us two days and three nights. On the way we will pass the three gorges, an area along the Jiangzi persumably very beautiful, and that will be flooded as they finish building their great dam project in 2009. Better do it while there is still time.
Trying to find some inspiration to write something interesting, but right now there is no inspiration to be found, so I'll settle with this general info and hope that maybe somewhere I'll manage to sqeeze in something good. And now, time to split.
/Alex
We soon got tired of Xian. It's a city with persumably a lot of interesting historical sites, such as the teracotta warriors. If one is willing to spend some days doing long treks to these historical sites around Xian, it would probably be quite interesting. We however, decided not to, and the city Xian in itself is dead boring.
So we spend two nights at a nice hostel there, and then went to Chongqing. This is a city with a worse reputation than it deserves. There is not one songle straight street, and trying to find the way to anywhere is quite impossible. (This couldn't possibly have anything to do with that I'm bad at reading maps!)
The city is scattered over some hills and valleys, and it gives the architecture an interesting apearance. Even though it is quite polluted, like all Chinese cities, it has a certain character that I haven't found anywhere else in China.
However, restless as we are, we'll leave already tomorrow. We'll take a ferry down rivers on the Jiangzi, it will take us two days and three nights. On the way we will pass the three gorges, an area along the Jiangzi persumably very beautiful, and that will be flooded as they finish building their great dam project in 2009. Better do it while there is still time.
Trying to find some inspiration to write something interesting, but right now there is no inspiration to be found, so I'll settle with this general info and hope that maybe somewhere I'll manage to sqeeze in something good. And now, time to split.
/Alex
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