I have professed my love for the Sichuan province many a time here, and am happy to announce that we finally got our shit together and planned our May holiday trip to…where else? That’s right folks, here’s how the official itinerary looks:
4/29 – Fly into Chongqing. Eat hot pot and people-watch in the city famed for the proverb: “You will never truly know the cage of marriage until you see Chongqing.” That saying may mean a lot to many people, but the way I interpret it is: “All the married men in China live in cages and are fed canned sprouts for dinner.”
4/30 – We leave for Chengdu on long-distance bus. I’m expecting to be trapped in a rickety vehicle crammed full of villagers visiting the big city for holiday, most likely sporting all kinds of strains of bird flu. Of course, that’s just the ignorant city-boy prejudical view of things. But if I never make it to Chengdu, you’ll know that my carcass is strewn across some road somewhere, and my body parts will be the reason millions of people in Guangzhou put their SARS masks back on.
5/1 – We bum around Chengdu, eat some more hot pot, and get the best philly cheesesteaks in China (Zoe’s, here we come! I still have two frozen sandwiches in my freezer from last time!)
5/2-5/3 – We’ll be driving out to Leshan Big Buddha and Emeishan, one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China. The other ones are Wuyi, Putuo, and that huge shit that Keith laid in the bathroom last night after (thankfully) I brushed my teeth before bed.
5/4 – We’ll fly from Chengdu to Shenzhen, and then invariably go to Hong Kong so that we can do what we NEVER do in Shanghai: drink lots and lots of beer.
Exciting and new, we’re off soon!
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