Behold, the photos. I tried to select the best out of thousands, so enjoy?
A statue outside a monastery that has different parts from all twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. I was born in the year of the Sheep, so I'm touching the goat's beard for good luck.
Remember the post on bad translations of Chinese food on my other blog? Well, through this gate was the street that sold all that food.
The Giant Panda Breeding Research Base.
Four of them all battling for bamboo.
Red panda, lucky shot of this one standing.
Jiazhaikou Valley, famous for its spectacular scenery comprising rivers, waterfalls and lakes. We had to take another plane from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou in order to get here. In this photo, I was a little... cold. It doesn't look cold from the photo, but it really was.
Those colors are unreal, man. 熊猫海, Xiong mao hai, "Panda Lake".
Pretty waterfall.
My mom and I at another waterfall.
My mother reckons her photography skills are awesome because it's artistic. What's artistic, apparently, is the tree that's in the way. To me, that defies all logic.
Pretty tree.
Really blue lake.
Blue and green hues of 草海, chao hai, "Grass Lake".
五花海, wu hua hai, "Five Flower Lake".
Side-view of 诺日朗瀑布, nuo ri lang pu bu, "Nuorilang Waterfall".
I'm just trying something...
Still Nuorilang Waterfall. This is hilarious because we were trying out the widescreen function. In case you still haven't found me, I'm in the bottom-right corner..jpg)
We flew back to Chengdu and this was taken in the bathroom of the Chengdu airport.
My mother likes taking photos of my slavery as I retrieve our suitcases at baggage claim.
Have you ever stayed in a honeymoon suite with your mother because the hotel couldn't place you anywhere else? This is the consequence: a view of the shower from your bed, with the curtain on the outside of the bathroom. Weird.
Mount Emei, 3099 metres above sea level. The only food they sold there were sausages. Who doesn't like sausages?
Cold.
Everything with a thin layer of snow.
My mother disturbing me in my sleep on the way down the mountain.
Leshan Giant Buddha, viewed from a darn boat. This was what I wanted to see from the very beginning, but the boat we got didn't stop to let us get off and actually walk around and up next to the buddha. But anyway, it's 71 metres tall and the Buddha-in-a-wall to see in one's lifetime.
On the flight back to Hong Kong.
Pretty clouds.
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