Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 4: Kangding
In the hostel, I heard that there was no bus to Garzê aka Ganzi. After discussing, Alex chose to go to Litang instead. And then he decided to trek the mountain behind the hostel. We headed downhill for some food like Chinese pizzas, then went up to begin our journey. I didn’t know that it […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 3: Chengdu To Kangding
Very early in the morning, we checked out of the guesthouse and went to the West Chengdu Bus Station (also called Chadianzi) at 8 AM. The tickets showed us that we had to wait 3 hours for the bus to start for Kangding. Just when we left the city streets, there was a big traffic […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 2: Chengdu Panda Base
We took a panda tour to visit the world famous giant pandas in the Chengdu Panda Base. They were so lovely, cutie… and I could use all beautiful adjectives I knew to describe such a creature. Even it was raining this morning, I felt so lucky to see the pandas in many of their positions: […]
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Day 1: Hanoi To Chengdu, Transit In Guangzhou
Got the boarding pass long ahead of time, but I was still late for the boarding time because I thought that the time on the paper was the beginning time of boarding. I heard the last call for several times and realized that I was late. My French friend (he’s stayed in Hanoi) and I […]
Con Dao, Day 3: Way Back Home
We had a buffet breakfast like Day 2 in the restaurant at 7:30 AM, then headed back to the hotel room to collect stuff and check out of the hotel at 9:00 AM. We waited there for the plane for 1.5 hours. The plane looked newer than the other one we took to Con Dao […]