Day 3 - Beijing/Chengdu

I woke up this morning and didn't eat breakfast because we had a choice of sleeping in or eating, I chose sleep!

From there we ate lunch at a Manchu restaurant, which served food and the wait staff dressed in style of the Manchu Dynasty.

Then we went to Ya Show Market which basically sold everything, or should I say knock offs of everything. It was like going to a used car lot about 15 years ago only amped up to about 1000%. You couldn't even look at something without someone asking you; "Do you want to buy?" about 100 times in 60 seconds. I spent about fifteen minuets in there and then headed back out to the bus and entertained the bus drivers (There was about 50 buses in the parking lot) until everyone got back.

We then headed to the airport for our flight to Chengdu where I grabbed a couple of spicy chicken sandwiches from KFC*, after, of course, being searched by security, I am 2 for 2 this trip on being singled out in the security line. *Side note: if you ever travel to china for any length of time take advantage of getting western food as often as you can get it whether you are hungry or not!


We landed around 930 in Chengdu and went to the Brilliance Garden Hotel and Resort. Got to our rooms and went to bed!

Today's Pictures

Thanks for your prayers,
Daniel

(added the 16th because I couldn't find the ethernet cable in my room)