Journeys of a Long Character: Some field trips and exploration! Part 4

I’m am getting a last post in before the week long National Holiday (celebrating the PRC and its independence from the ROC) and my travels take me to a province to the south of Sichuan, called Yunnan. The scenery there is supposed to be spectacular. Definitely some amazing pictures coming your way next week when I come back.

As for now, I have to admit, I’ve been super busy. This last week, we’ve been bombarded with exams and tests before the national holiday. And then I’ve been extremely neurotic and looking up routes to and from Chengdu so we get back in time for classes. And I love to over-prepare for travel. I know I promised some pictures of China to a few of you (Sorry Mrs. Wakefield and class!), but it doesn’t look like I will be able to get to it this post. There’s actually so much to talk about in the topics that you’ve proposed to me (seeing the inside of a supermarket and products that we are familiar with in the US found here in China) that I want to do it right and make it pretty substantial so you see what I see! And now we know I'm just making excuses because we all know I can't manage my time and should have been able to do it. Thus - I fail. But hopefully I can regain some life points when I come back with that extra special scavenger hunt post and my Yunnan trip post!

So, I shall leave you all with some pictures of our field trip to Yellow Dragon Town (黄龙溪镇). This town is about 2 hours outside of Chengdu and is an Ancient Town dating all the way back to the Three Kingdoms. A lot of the buildings and structures from later periods have been preserved, so walking around you get a small taste of what China was before the fall of the last dynasty in 1911. Interesting fact, because Yellow Dragon Town has preserved so much of its ancient architecture, it has been used to shoot hundreds of period films in China. Neat, right?! I really enjoyed it.

Here we go.