Yesterday Nate and I decided to trust lonely planet and explore another are of Chongqing very far away: Zhongshan, which means Middle Mountain. The girls at our hostel helped us out the night before, looking up where to catch a bus to Zhongshan. This was after they gushed about how hot Nate was, were shocked […]
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A Piece of History: Our Day in Dazu
On the third day we woke up at the crack of dawn (aka 7) to go on a tour of the Dazu caves. Our hostel had booked the tour the night before and we were to be picked up at 7. We ate an interesting breakfast at the hostel, tomatoes with scrambled eggs (yes, we […]
My First Few Days in Chongqing
Tina’s Hostel is very hard to find. Actually most hostels are impossible to find, located in random alleys off the main road. After wandering around Zhongqinglu for about 10 minutes, we finally found a sign for the hostel painted on a wall of a crumbling building. I was a little scared, but how bad could […]