Chongqing Travel Blogs

Just yesterday i was making all sort of enquries if I could simply rent a car and take me to Dazu for the day and sent me straight to airport after that. And if that works, I would have to be awake very early.Of course this plan didnt materialise as the cost was too much for me to take, and even so…

Drove about 2 hours to Dazu today, to see two of the ancient frescoe/rock carving sites.  Passed through some very long tunnels and hit some great road - we actually got up to 100km/hr at one point, a record for this trip!  Closer to Dazu, however, and back onto the small roads which dete…

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia), Martin (Poland) Deciding their was little to see in Chonqing, we went to a travel agent to book our Yangzi River boat cruise for the same evening. We were surprised at the prices as they were half of what Lonely Planet h…

We arrived into Chongqing with five hours to go before our boat set off. Which was just as well. We thought the bus station was near the dock on the river. Not at all! Again we wandered about for a bit trying to walk it, but it would have been about 8 miles so we got a cab to the city centre hotel…

In a country with a land mass of 9,596,960, it's no surprise that you spend a lot of your time travelling China, well, travelling. After the overnight train journey followed by a five-hour bus journey that took us to Yichang，we then had a two-day river trip down the Yangtse followed by another fi…

The next stop is Guilin, however since we were in Leshan and Guilin was very far away, we needed to get to a big city to take a plane, train or bus to Guilin.  So we hopped on the local minibus, 6 hours to Chongqing to figure out what to do.When I say big city, I really mean it.  The City…

In 2006 I visited the Dazu Stone Carvings which is a designated world heritage site located in Chonqing province of China.

Photos from my visit to Chongqing city in 2006

I met up with the wife of one of the students I had visited in Tsinghua (Beijing), and she had told me she would show me around a bit.  Ok, seems harmless, we'll see the sites....nope, not gonna be that easy.  I am writing this blog many months later, so my memories have been dulled, so t…

We call Chongqing are "the mountain city", what there is most famous is the hot pot. But I thought calls "the fog city" to be  more accurate. I recommend everybody, goes to in front of Chongqing should better first look up the weather,has a look the picture to know had happened.  &nb…

It's a 2-week trip to China. It has been my dream that one day I climb up The Great Wall of China ... We'll be leaving on the 26th and back on the 8th of November.

My guidebook calls Chongqing "one of China's most unusual cities" - and I admit that I was impressed. First, over 30 million people live in this area. Yes, 30 million people! That's only slightly less than the entire State of California! But the layout is stunning, as well. Skyscrapers clin…

These are just some of my favorite photos from the first leg of my world tour. Starting off with Japan, then Taiwan, Korea & China. This blog chronicles my travels over the first part of my adventure. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I do. :D

I went to China for the month of May 2006, so study the long term effects of human development on aquatic ecosystems. As such I traveled to extremely rural places and went where no white person had ever been before. Overall the trip was eye opening!

I had tickets to Nanning leaving Chongqing at 18:59, so I had a whole day to wonder about the city. Most on Chongqing is pretty run down, but the area next to the Liberation Monument is pretty ritzy. The Liberation Monument is a giant Rolex clock in the center of a shopping plaza. It's reall…