Back again. Its been a while since I wrote.. Its been in Xian I guess.
Dunno where to start....... Well the last day in Xi'an we went to a big (buddhist) pagoda which was really beautiful but I guess I am sort of spoiled thru Thailand.. That pagoda was just so touristy and I didnt really get the feeling of what I used to feel at those places. It was beautiful to look at though. Oh and there was this big waterspectacle (hu). In front of that pagoda was a big square where they had lots of fountains and every hour they turned on loud music (thats what they love here) and the fountains were on. But dont think that they were only spilling some water.. It actually was sort of impressive. The water sort od danced to the music.. It was crazy seeing a 20 minute show (every hour) with SO much water being wasted while other places are about to dry out.. But I guess thats China.
About the loud music.. Chinese people love everything that makes noise and that is just loud. Everywhere you go you hear music or people screaming or spitting (really, I could here it from a room that was on 2nd floor) or anything. When we climbed the Great Wall there was music where we were actually happy to hear the sound of nature.. forget it. Therefore, on a market in Xian, they had these little cages with criquets (is that how you spell it?) inside to make that sound.. Isnt that striking??
Anyway at night we took the train (a hardsleeper, YAY!) to Chengdu. It took us like 17 hours or so but it was a nice ride. When we got there it was like 4 pm and we just walked around the area where our hostel was. It was beautiful, there was a tempel and lots of those traditional old chinese houses. They probably were restored for the tourists but it was beautiful anyway.
The next day we went inside that tempel. I loved it! We had some really good food inside the tempel, Gingko nuts with some green salad stuff and bamboo and rice. Though Sichuan province is famous for its spices our food was pretty mild but that was good.


We went to the people's park to a teahouse and this one chinese man came up to us and started talking.. He was just funny, and his friend wanted to show us pictures of Tibet as he goes there a lot. It would have been interesting but.. no thanks. Actually we met really many people here who go to Tibet.. Or people who have been there.. I thought that itd be so hard to get that permit but I guess its not. I'll do that the next time.
Haha its so funny, Chinese people love this Internet dancing game! The guy next to me is just playing it.. You have to press some numbers to do the right moves.. It looks so boring and girlie but they seem to love it!!