of earthquakes and pandas

This is my third post on the China trip, and i think i have a few more to go!

So we left jiu zhai gou by coach, and put up a night in a town where the 2008 earthquake happened. Then we got back to Chengdu again.

Priceless. It was one dusty place! It was so painful with my contact lenses on. Then we stopped by a beautiful waterfall place. 

Someone please explain to me why there are bubbles on the soil, under the water? And we arrived at a dustier town where the earthquaked happened. It was really sad seeing so many people of all ages working on bridges and such, rebuilding their town

When we arrived back to Chengdu, we watched an epic show and went to see pandas.

A very sad looking panda. Most of the giant pandas were either sleeping or eating, so there wasn’t much to see. Until we saw the younger pandas!They drank tomato juice just like a baby.  The first time i saw red pandas was at the melbourne zoo. They’re so adorableee

Publishing another post tomorrow :)

PS/ just set up a new flag counter a couple of days ago!

jiu zhai gou

Here’s my second post of the China trip! We were supposed to fly to Jiu Zhai Gou on the second day of our stay there but things got complicated.

Visited some place in Chengdu.

So we arrived at the airport, and took a domestic flight to Jiu Zhai Gou. The flight was supposed to be forty-five minutes but i fell asleep and lost track of time, but i woke up just in time to snap pictures of the mountains while we were flying on top of Jiu Zhai Gou. Then i fell asleep again.

The flight seemed wayyyy more than the scheduled time. When we landed, i was so confused because the airport looked like the exact same one as the one in Chengdu.

My brother told me we arrived in Jiu Zhai Gou and sensing the sarcasm in his words, i thought otherwise. And i was right. Haha! Apparently there was a really bad turbulence, the pilot couldn’t land so we had to fly back to Chengdu.

But anyways! We were brought to this small airport hotel to wait for our next available flight, which would be anytime. Most of the passengers looked really mad.

We walked around, didn’t really snap much as there wasn’t anything interesting. Around 7pm, we were told that there would be a flight to Jiu Zhai Gou. Went to the airport, took off at 8pm and reached there really late at night.

It was freezing cold the next morning. Probably less than 0 degrees. But the place was gorgeous. The main part of my post starts here, heaps of scenic pictures ahead :)

The entrance to Jiu Zhai Gou There were buses inside to take you around the place so it’s pretty convenient The “Earth mountain” The “Panda Sea” lol no i’m not kidding I forgot what this place is called but it was beautiful. My mum and i. I was freeezing It was so cold the water in the lake turned to ice. Some waterfall place Can you see the face? Mountains And more mountains This place was my favourite of all. When the wind blew Another waterfall place.  At the bottom of the waterfall, how beautiful is that

So yeah that’s pretty much it, there’s more though. I’ll post them another time :) have a great week!