10 march 2012

10 March 2012

Finally it’s the weekend, this is the time where my friends and I can get out of campus to go to tourist attractions in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. In the morning before we set off, my roommate and I went to a nearby shop selling soup dumplings for breakfast. It was really cheap at about S$0.80 for 10 dumplings. The meal was so good that we each order one more!!

Our first tourist attraction was the panda park, there we manage to see the giant pandas feeding on bamboos and the rare red pandas which look very raccoon-like. At the end of the tour we went to the souvenir shop and I bought myself a cute little panda soft toy for S$14 hehe!!

Second attraction was the Du Fu House where there was once lived a famous poet named Du Fu whom visited Chengdu for 4 years and wrote about 240 poems which drew a lot of attention. I also learn how people live during 200AD where we saw a settlement excavated in 2001. There was like old pottery, cutlery and water wells.

Lastly, final attraction was the Liu Bei temple, Liu Bei was a man that lived around 200AD and an emperor of the Shu Kingdom during the Han Dynasty. In the temple, there are many statues of Liu Bei, his two sworn brothers, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, the prime minister Zhuge Liang and many more of the ancestors children and grandchildren. Outside the place there is a food street with many weird and interesting foods like beef kebab, candy art, blow candy and strawberry coated honey treat.

This overall trip tells me more of the history of China back in those days of many thousands of years ago. This increases my knowledge in China and I cannot wait to learn more. I am so eager to learn more of China, what to expect!