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INDIVIDUAL VOYAGE THROUGH CHINA DURING 7 WEEKS PEKING XIAN CHENGDU CHONGQING YANGTZE RIVER MOUNTS HUANGSHAN HANGZHOU SUZHOU SHANGHAI PEKING
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Towards Chengdu
23.9.1990
We leave Xian in the evening. Now we have more experience and buy easily tickets sleeping car. Our next stage is Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan, 885 km. in the southwest of Xian. As in the train some days ago, traditional melodies are in the air. We quickly begin to chatter with our fellow travelers. Their English is rather good, so we manage to obtain interesting informations for the next days. They recommend the Binjiang hotel reserved to the Chinese, comfortable and cheap. About the cookery in Sichuan we have to know it’s famous all over the region but extremely spiced! Now, amused, we learn to say “putchajdjo” = not to hot!!! Everybody laugh. A wonderful music is playing. I want to know the name of it; perhaps I’ll find the CD. A lady knows it but results a long discussion concerning the calligraphy. I conclude their mysterious signs are very complicated, even for this team of engineers and businessmen. They look very happy at the moment the answer is written in my notebook. So run away 18 hours not realizing we arrive in Chengdu.
23.9.1990
We leave Xian in the evening. Now we have more experience and buy easily tickets sleeping car. Our next stage is Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan, 885 km. in the southwest of Xian. As in the train some days ago, traditional melodies are in the air. We quickly begin to chatter with our fellow travelers. Their English is rather good, so we manage to obtain interesting informations for the next days. They recommend the Binjiang hotel reserved to the Chinese, comfortable and cheap. About the cookery in Sichuan we have to know it’s famous all over the region but extremely spiced! Now, amused, we learn to say “putchajdjo” = not to hot!!! Everybody laugh. A wonderful music is playing. I want to know the name of it; perhaps I’ll find the CD. A lady knows it but results a long discussion concerning the calligraphy. I conclude their mysterious signs are very complicated, even for this team of engineers and businessmen. They look very happy at the moment the answer is written in my notebook. So run away 18 hours not realizing we arrive in Chengdu.
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