Brookline High School in China

China 35: Back in Xi'an

Weird food:Camel Tendon

So we just got back from Chengdu which is in the Sichuan province of China. As usual I don't have time to post pitcutes or even write much. I have to say the trip was very fun, but we had to go w/ our tour guide everywhere so we really didn't get much opportunity to go off on our own. Actually we didn't get any. We spent a lot of time going to Buddhist temples which apparently are the main point of interests for Chinese tourists. They visit millions of Buddhist temples w/ their tours and outnumber the monks at the temples by far. We visited so many temples we've got to the point that we use "buddhist" to describe anything boring. (in our boredom the group also developed a lot more slang words) Anyway, the food too was disappointing b/c I think our guide didn't believe we could handle Sichuan spiciness so we had the same thing for every meal pretty much.

So cool things we did was: see pandas who are the cutest most amazing things in the world. they just sat in front of us on their back chewing bamboo and chilling. We went to e'mei mountain which was amazingly beautiful. and we saw Sichuan opera for tourists which featured a man who could make really good shadow puppets.

the 15 hr overnight train rides got tiresome but we enjoyed the humid, hot experience. it's good to be back. I don't have any time and tomorrow i'm going away again w/ my host family (which i just found out) for the may 1st holiday.

posted by dAVID @ 3:44 AM