As a fan of 三国演义， Chengdu holds a special appeal for this was the capital of the Kingdom of Shu where my heroes, 张飞，关羽，诸葛亮 lived. I expected to see a lot more relics from the court of Liu Bei at the museum dedicated to the history of that era, but most of the exhibits were […]
Chengdu is a much bigger city than Kunming. We explored parts of the huge city centre on foot, checking out the ATMs to find one where my card works. We had an excellent bargain at dinner time. The new restaurants here give great discounts like a Y60 discount for evey Y100 spent. There’s also great […]
We landed safely at 2215 this evening. Chengdu’s airport is so big. The plane had to taxi for 10mins at a relatively high speed before we arrived at the correct part of the terminal building. Immigration clearance and baggage collection was fast, but we had a brief introduction to Sichuan “hospitality” when two young ladies […]
Yes, seeing is believing. There are direct flights from Chengdu to Daocheng. According to Wikipedia: Daocheng Yading Airport (IATA: DCY, ICAO: ZUDC) is an airport serving Daocheng County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province, China. It is located in Sangdui Township, 50 kilometers north of the county seat and 130 kilometers from […]
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