Chengdu, famous for its spicy girls and pretty food!

12-15.11.11

It’s been too long since I updated and so much has happened. Where to begin?

Ok, Chengdu. I didn’t really have any plans so once Jasper suggested the place and I had also heard about the spicy food and pretty girls, I decided why not. Also, at that time I felt it was time for me to move on from Beijing after two weeks. As the first two days I was feeling pretty bad both physically and emotionally, didn’t feel like writing much. Or taking so many pictures. However, here they are 🙂

The first tunnel!

As I didn’t know anyone (naturally) from here, I decided to take Jasper’s and Elise’s advice and log on to couch surfers to see if some local would host me and show me around. In the end I couldn’t find anyone but something funny happened. This local girl by the name Summer contacted ME through couch surfers (or at least I thought she did). As it turned out after a short chat, her english illiterate friend had thought it was a chat software and decided to open a chat with me :D. Result, I asked her to show me around the place and she gladly agreed. She picked me up from my hostel and helped me relocate to a better one. Afterwards she took me to eat some local food and later some donuts with good conversation. Her english is pretty good compared to the local standard and for 21 years, her views and attitudes for life were very interesting and refreshing. And she has an iPhone so I know she can’t be all bad 😉 Unlike most Chinese she has a passport but never travelled outside China. She want’s though. So, Summer, if you get to read this, in the very unlikely case you ever want to visit Finland, I will be happy to show you around 🙂

During my usual exploration walks I stumbled upon this! First I thought the ship is just docking but closer inspection revealed it actually has foundations! :O. Inside there are apartments, a club, banks, post office, other offices and lifts and shit. It is an actual building made out of a shipwreck! I’d say that is a very intuitive way to recycle 😉 Not the usual recycling bullshit you run into every day. This is what I am talking about! This is what I love.

I’m sure there is a lot more to Chengdu but I’ll save it for another time.

And no, I did NOT go see the pandas so dont even ask.