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    • China
      2
      Day 10–13

      Die Megacity Chongqing

      April 6 in China ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Hatten den Post auf Privat eingestellt😂 Deshalb hier jetzt öffentlich von vor 3 Tagen 😁⬇️

      Nachdem wir schon in Berlin die Arte Doku über Chongqing (die größte und schnellstwachsende Stadt der Welt) geschaut haben waren wir hooked! Nach Chengdu ging es dann mit dem Zug nach Chongqing - diesmal nicht ins Hostel sondern mal ins 5 ⭐️ Hotel mit einem Zimmer im 34. Stock!

      Schon am ersten Abend sind wir aus dem Staunen nicht mehr rausgekommen. Die Skyline von Chongqing ist eine 360 grad Erfahrung, überall blinkt, leuchtet und flackert es in allen Farben und Formen - eine Großstadt einer ganz anderen Dimension!

      Die Berg Stadt Chongqing ist in mehreren Ebene aufgebaut, hier müsste die Karten App auch dreidimensional funktionieren - denn man weiß zwar ob man sich am richtigen Ort befindet, aber nicht, auf welcher Ebene. Dafür haben wir uns zum Glück recht wenig verlaufen 😅

      Wie die Stadt wurden wir auch hier eher Abends aktiv und haben bei einer Flussfahrt auf dem Jangtse nochmal einen anderen Blickwinkel auf die Stadt bekommen - Hochhäuser soweit das Auge reicht. Wirklich gigantisch!

      Außerdem ist Chongqing bekannt für den berühmten Hot Pot - angeblich liegt es an dem feuchten Klima hier, dass die Leute aus Chongqing besonders scharf essen, jedenfalls erzählt man uns das hier. Wir haben einen Hot Pot mit “geringer Schärfe” bestellt (Ich will NICHT wissen wie scharf die anderen 2 Schärfegrade sind). In dem Topf mit kochender scharfer Brühe, Unmengen von Chilli’s und Szechuan Pfeffer konnten wir dann unsere Zutaten (Gemüse, Fleisch) kochen - wie beim Fondue nur ohne Käse. Außerdem gab es Sesamöl in einem kleinen Töpfchen dazu, wir haben erklärt bekommen, dass das wohl die Schärfe nimmt - das Öl wurde direkt nach dem ersten Bissen zum Lebensretter 😅. Trotz der Schärfe hat es aber sehr gut geschmeckt!

      Chongqing - sehr sehenswert und sicherlich weiterhin im konstanten Wechsel - vor 14 Jahren gab es die Stadt ja gefühlt noch nicht! Eine Stadt die es nur in China geben kann.      Read more

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    • Our OE
      1
      Day 48

      Welcome to China!

      May 19 in China ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

      After a "quiet" day yesterday (only a Chinese wedding, meeting up with three groups of Vela's mates, and about 10 hours of Majiang) today was an exciting one! Nathan's parents arrived in China for the first time!

      We picked them up from the airport at about 10.30am and, after a quick refresh at the hotel, took them out for our favourite Chongqing style noodles. The noodle restaurant is quite famous for being owned by three brothers, who each work the restaurant for a year before taking two years off. Big thumbs up for the first meal in China.

      Afterwards we headed for Chongqing's famous monorail. We weren't the only ones having a gander at the famous line which goes right through the middle of a residential apartment building. We hopped on the monorail and rode a few stops with nice views of Chongqing over the Jialing River (smaller of the two rivers in Chongqing).

      We exited the monorail in the middle of the peninsula where the Jialing River meets the Yangtze. You could see where the green waters of the Jialing mixed into the browner colours of Yangtze. There is a famous tower complex (4 individual towers which are connected with a causeway 42 floors up) so we headed up to one of the bars for a spot of hydration and to enjoy the view.

      We then headed off to meet up with Vela's family. The restaurant put on an absolute feast, with dishes being stacked on top of each other in order to fit them on the table. Nathan's dad enjoyed having a taste of Baijiu with Vela's step dad, calling it "medicine" to help fight off any impending illness from the plane. Thank you to Vela's mum, Mei, for organising a fantastic welcoming dinner!      Read more

    • Our OE
      3
      Day 49

      Pandas, Cable Car, Old City & Hotpot

      May 20 in China ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

      The way we see it, there are 4 big ticket items that anyone visiting China needs to tick off, The Wall, The Forbidden City, The Terracotta Soldiers, and Pandas. We decided to get out of the gates early and headed for Chongqing zoo to see some pandas. The pandas were incredibly cute, but we must have come during nap time - easy to do as I think they sleep for 90% of the day. Many of them were sleeping in what looked to be very uncomfortable poses, draped over poles or starfished on platforms. Nathan managed to spy one which wandered into its cave at the back of the exhibit too, but that was the most action we saw.

      Diane enjoyed a little prance in some of the flowers before we left the zoo and headed for lunch. After lunch we took the old cable car across the Yangtze River. This cable car used to be one of the main ways to get across before all the modern bridges were built.

      The cable car put us back in the middle peninsula, close to the raffles tower complex again. We passed an old temple, dwarfed by the surrounding skyscrapers, and headed for the old city. This area, now very much a tourist attraction, demonstrates how Chongqing used to be built. Given Chongqing's mountainous geography, they would build platforms on big piles and then build their buildings on top of that. We climbed down through the nine levels of the old city, encountering a wide array of traditional foods, sauces, teas and even a smoke breathing dragon!

      After leaving the old city (which was very busy and loud) we found a Majiang room and taught Ross and Diane the basics - we will test them on this later. Chongqing hotpot for dinner before hitting the hay.      Read more

    • Dragon of China
      Day 10

      Yang Tse Cruise: Day 2

      August 18, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 37 °C

      Early wake up to go on a morning trip to see the pagoda of the White Emperor, and the temple of the blood of the there reigns. Yes, we saw the movie before leaving and it was amazing to actually be there and see the places for ourselves
      This trip was indeed interesting, the scenery was breathtaking. There were a lot of propone but it was a nice, relatively cool walk in the leafy green.
      Certainly worth the extra money.
      Back fur an early lunch and in the afternoon we went on the best trip of all, a truly magical boat trip (we landed and moved to smaller boats) into narrow side rivers and high gorges. Our lovely guide also told us a lot about the story of their town, an ancient fishing village of less than 1000 people who lost their living when the Three Gorges Dam raised the level of the river by 130 meters, inundated their houses forever and sank them under mud and turned the renowned Blue River into brown must sludge. Now they also live on tourism, what little they get, and live on the renowned mountains. They sang us a song on plastic rafters and we clapped and bought some dried flowers. I'm still thinking about them in their mountain village community dreaming of what they lost and caring so much for their land that they refused to leave, even after they lost everything.
      That last evening, the ship's crew showed a film about the ram but we eat outside on the deck and watched the world lazily go by.
      We sent Oleg to bed earlier, he was playing with some Chinese kids, but when we went back to our cabin we woke him to stand on our balcony and watch the ship arrive in the docks at Yichang, it was quite something.      Read more

    • The Roof of the World
      Day 11

      Tibet--Where the World is an Illusion

      October 14, 2019 in China ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F

      Tomorrow we go to see the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. The fact is however, we’re already in a palace. The Saint Regis Hotel in Lhasa offers a palatial place to camp out for the next three nights. The mountains here, part of the Himalayas, are among the highest in the world. For the last two weeks in China the sun never broke through the fog. Here the sun burns with a blinding intensity that begs for gallons of sunscreen. The sky is a deep cobalt blue bordered by spectacular sunlit snowy peaks. This city lies 13,000 feet above sea level, and some of our group are already experiencing altitude sickness. Some are claiming to feel light-headed, nauseated or short of breath. We have been taking it easy since we arrived around 3:00 pm, and we feel fine. Of course we did start taking diamox twice a day two days ago.

      Shortly after the Communist Chinese came to power in 1949, they invaded this theocratic kingdom. The Dalai Lama, who is both the religious and political head, fled to India, where he set up a government in exile. Now in his nineties, he travels the world to give messages of peace, and to seek aid for his estranged kingdom. No longer seeking a military victory here, the Chinese are simply sending millions of new college graduates here every year to fill new jobs the state creates. The result is that the native Tibetan culture is being diluted in a Chinese sea.

      Tibetan Buddhism holds that all human experience in this world is merely illusion. Nothing perceived by the senses is important, only the spirit. Perhaps this belief explains why some Tibetans can be so poor, yet have a smile on their faces. Everyone here smiles all the time. They are a very gentle people from whom we in the west might learn something.      Read more

    • Traveler退休游
      Day 10

      面基🐼-爱姐与烂背心

      October 4, 2023 in China

      现在的🐼貌似和以前不一样了
      越来月人化😂😂
      很多不开心 都靠看🐼视频治愈了
      有条件的时候那必须面基

      看爱姐的时候听到一小段对话：
      👶：妈妈 我不想看熊猫了
      👩：你看🐼多可爱
      👶：我不想看了，我想去看两栖动物
      👩：两栖动物哪儿都能看，回家了就看不到熊猫了
      😂😂😂😂 所以汤圆团子们真的治愈了很多抑郁的大人

    • TravelerFrom Hamburg to Berlin
      Day 14

      Back to the world’s biggest city

      March 31 in China ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Wir hatten es nicht eingeplant, weil wir dachten, dass der Umweg zu weit sein würde. Dank des Bullettrains sind wir nun doch nochmal hier in Chongqing! Ich kann es kaum glauben. Nach unserem „kurzen“ Spaziergang über 2h, haben wir schon gesehen, wie sehr sich die Stadt verändert hat. Es scheint als sei sie noch moderner und noch größer geworden!! Es fühlt sich verrückt an zurück zu sein!

      We did not really plan to come here because we thought it is too far away. Thanks to the bullet train that brought us here in less than 3,5h. Now we are back to Chongqing and only after a short trip (which took us 2h…) we already have seen immense changes. It seams as if the city became even more modern and more big!! It’s crazy to be back. I am so happy!      Read more

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    • Our OE
      Day 17

      Coming Home to Chongqing

      April 18 in China ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      Travel day today!

      This morning we left our hotel headed for Osaka airport. Luckily Vela double checked our flights before we got on the train, as there are two international airports in Osaka and we were originally headed for the wrong one!

      Crisis averted, we safely boarded our plane and with no issues (other than a kooky stranger in the third plane seat) we arrived safely in Chongqing!

      Standard homecoming ritual meant 30 minutes later we were at a hotpot restaurant with Vela's family. Yum!      Read more

    • Our OE
      Day 23–27

      Hanging out in Chongqing

      April 24 in China ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      After a busy few days and nights in Beijing and Xiamen, it was nice to get back to Chongqing where we could rest up a little. There was still a lot of catching up with friends, but also some more relaxing activities including; walking to find coffee in the mornings, badminton, lunch/dinner with friends, enjoying the warm settled weather, and family time.

      Nathan was introduced to some foreigners living in Chongqing (some of them up to 12 years) and it was interesting to get their perspective on life in China. They also took him out to a decent bar to sample a couple of hazys. Hazy #2 was the better drop.      Read more

    • Traveler2024_TripChina
      Day 13

      Chongqing 到达重庆

      May 26 in China ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

      The flight was very smooth, and arrived on time. The prearranged driver called me and picked us up from the airport. Soon we were on the way to hotel. The electric car is rather luxurious with 3 large size screens displaying every piece of information of the road, the car and the surroundings.
      准点到达飞抵重庆，一路顺利。接站的司机第一时间和我联系，几分钟后我们就上路向酒店进发。电动车车内相当豪华，很宽敞，也安静，有三个大尺寸屏幕显示各种不同信息包括路况，周围车辆和本车情况。      Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Chongqing Shi, Chongqing, Municipalité de Chongqing, 重庆市

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