Photo Gallery :  Chengdu

 a buddha-corner




youth hostels in china are quite organized.




 Painfully slow internet connection : BBC, Yahoo, CNN,
and many other western web sites are censored by the government




S Stylish ancient drum which can eventually be used as chair.




 The gals at the reception desk




B Be careful to come back in the room before 23.00 or ...




or you'll have to knock the outer door-guardian.




outside the hostel : a typical tea house

 

 Despite they may look like open air pubs, people really go there
to just drink tea ("cha"), alcoholics are served usually at dawn.




 Chinese salami hanging from the trees.




 As always in the hutongs, lots of bicycles and electric bikes.




 Unlike in the Western world, here the old jobs like shoe-cleaner are still popular.




 Strange guy with (toy) kalashnikov




old lady




 Lots of small pathways leading to nowhere.