Afterthoughts on Chengdu

Chengdu is yet another big (several million people) city. The capital of Sichuan Provence, it is close to the Tibetan border. For me the interesting thing about the city is that most people use bicycles or battery driven motor scooters. Internal combustion powered scooters are not allowed for environmental reason since the city sits in a large bowl (like L.A.). When the light changes a thousand bikes move.




Besides spending time with the pandas we had a really fun afternoon in 'the Peoples Park' which is sort of Chengdu's version of Central Park. What was fun was the crowds of people all involved in different group activities such as line dancing, badminton, ballroom dancing and most important of all, having tea at the tea house. We joined them for this.


Kathy actually challenged one of the badminton players and held her own