Tuesday 26 May 2009

The Road To Chengdu - Part 3 - Chengdu

Another early early start - and another all day bus journey: eight and a half hours this time to Kangding - although the scenary was awesome.



The road was pretty good - all the way until lunch, where we stopped at a place for pork and potatoes. Pretty tasty and only 1 pound and sixty pence. And then things went down hill, because it got very very bumpy. Quiet a lot like this:



Except it went on for hours and hours and hours. But we had a laugh - and it helped the time pass...and at least it looked like this outside the bus:





When we got to Kangding I'd been planning to stay - but the other guys were heading straight for Chengdu (another 6 hours on a bus) and it looked like there wasn't much there - so decided to head for Chengdu.

Except it wasn't six hours. It took 10 because there were really bad roadworks. Although the dinner break was really good.

We finally made it to Mix Hostel in Chendgu over 18 hours after we'd set off. But what a trip. I'd do it again at the drop of a hat, just to go back to Litang.

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