16th. Chengdu - Shops 'n' Eats. Wu Hou Ci and Jing Li.

I headed towards the town centre today, Chun Xi Lu late around late morning. Rather impressed that I could find my way using public transport and such. :D Chengdu's town centre is known to have a lot of "美女" pretty girls, and so obviously it is custom to see lots of males just sitting around the town centre enjoying some eye candy. The town centre was very impressive, the shopping areas were HUGE with multiple department stores and such. I didn't have time to properly look around but it was a very good atmosphere.

I'd arranged to meet my TOURFRIEND at 2pm at a tourist attraction called Wu Hou Ci. Something to do with Zhu Ge Liang and the 3 kingdom fighty thing. We'd got panda cards so got free entry to many of Chengdu's tourist attractions, win. Basically the place wasn't that great and because we didn't have a tour guide didn't really know the history and what was going on etc. The only reason I knew some of the people mentionned in the museum/house/gardens was from watching Red Cliff.. and that was the extent of my knowledge. The site was pretty small anyway and we were glad we didn't have to pay 60rmb to get in x) Jing Li is a maze of streets in old style buildings to make up a small tourist area. It's famous for its "小吃" traditional snacks/eats (I have no idea how to translate this) and its atmosphere at night. Even during the day, there are lots of people and good general hustle and bustle. There are also lots of stalls around selling souvenirs etc. Of course there is also a Starbucks hidden amongst the old style buildings as well as many bars and restaurants making it popular at night. After walking around and eating lots, we both headed back and arranged to meet tomorrow. I went back to the town centre and looked around the shops some more, bought some stuff blahblah.

Oh, found out my dad went to America on a business trip.. ughhh. Jealous. And there may be a problem with my train tomorrow YAY. So I might have to take a trip to the station earlier to check :/ Apart from that..

Today was a nice day :D