Thread: Planes, trains & Automobiles, 3 chinese citys

We had heard that you could take a cable car across the yangtze and cop an awesome view of chongquing , but when we got there it turned out they were both closed because they were building a bridge instead,


The place where the cable car station was turned out to be an interesting little place carved into the hillside, called Hongya dong


But first a few more of the bridge construction





I had the directions to the cable car written in chinese , but old mate the taxi driver either didnt know it was closed or didnt give a fuk as long as it was a fare , oh well


All the fuckin about lookin for the cable car seemed to make the wife hungry again



I got another crap beer, this one straight out of the box and red hot, " Heathens"

Great thread, thanks for the pics. That's a lot of smog.

few random ones






The wife buying Tea

Making room for the next construction

it seems with all the air pollution a lot of chinese are obsessed with staying fit. you see them doing tie chi or whatever it is on the street a lot. or maybe just no space to exercise at home ?



The foods good but a bit oily so maybe its necessary to do a bit of exercise, Probably wouldnt hurt me and the handbrake either




Dont know what kind of tucker they were selling but the punters didnt mind lining up for it



Roast duck, my favourite





Its definately all about the food in china, they eat some weird stuff though


Why anybody would want to powder a pigs intestine is beyond me, Viagra?


This lady was the first chinese person to smile at me , usually they were scowling when i pulled out the camera, Perhaps if you live in a country of 1.4 billion people you might get a bit precious about your privacy, if i could speak the lingo i would of asked first , ah well, they will get over it

The view from our room in chongquing, we were on the 30th floor





How would you like to be breathing in that crap everday, no wonder they are always clearing the throat and coughing up oysters,

Time for some of the famous ring burning sichuan hotpot, My ringpiece will never be the same




Her indoors is Lao and can stand a bit of chillie but this one brought a tear to her eye


Heres another chinaman who wasnt impressed with me taking a picture. I dont understand a word of chinese but at a guess i reckon he called me a kunt, His tucker looked alright though

Thanks nige, we were to late for the cable car ride, would of loved to do it, especially at night for the view.




Time to find the train station and set of for chengdu on the bullet train

Great thread again BLD.

Can we have some more of your work thread too?
I really liked that one.

oops ive gotten a bit ahead of myself , heres a few more pics from the hong ya dong area in chongquing. This 11 story building juts out along the bank of the jialing river, interesting architecture and has a few restaurants and bars and geezers selling Tourist kitsch







I got talked into buying this chairman mao watch , fucker lasted about 5 minutes







Those kunts that sold me the dodgy chairman mao watch were defo pirates




Beer oclock ?








Heres another little bar where you can put the feet up and watch the river go by

A bit touristy but an interesting diversion for a while

Ive upset another one , reckon i might need a stronger deoderant

Nice stuff mate. Good the see you left your skid-lids at home for a change. Bit of romance with the ball and chain and all that innit.

The beer sounds grim thou, when I was there I was drinking some bolliks, over all its shit innit.

These 2 blokes were making some kind of candy by beating something with a big hammer







This looked like it might of been a decent area to stay, on the river and not far from the shopping and restaurants, Traffics a nightmare in chongquing , took us about 2 hours to get a taxi to go back to our hotel.


All good in hindsight eh ? beer time again










Chengdu next

I'd be in that Irish pub drinking Guinness, better than any of that other shit.

Originally Posted by terry57

Good the see you left your skid-lids at home for a change. Bit of romance with the ball and chain and all that innit.

Yep, the nippers stayed with there granny, would of been a nightmare carting them about in china,

were you banging around chongching?

Originally Posted by terry57

I'd be in that Irish pub drinking Guinness, better than any of that other shit.

Thats exactly what happened.

Stayed at a nice hotel in chengdu but when i booked it i didnt realise it was quite a ways out of the centre, so we spent a lot of time in taxis, bugger

Chengdu,s a big place, about 4.2 million and theres enough to do here for a few days , the wife badly wanted to see the Pandas being bred in captivity, bit over rated if you ask me, theres a couple of temples and flea markets and heaps of modern shopping areas





We had 2 nights in chengdu before heading back to Kunming to fly back to Laos,


Obligatory photo of the Chairman, Anybody wanna buy a watch ?


The cops at peoples park on sedgeways

Nice shots keep them coming.