Today the Tibetian Quarter of Chengdu was on the program. So after we got up and had breakfast with pancakes, yogurt and some very not nice dumplings we took the line 1 bus across town and got out near the WuHou Temple. Right next to it is a well known ancient street that has been redone where a lot of small shops are, so we jumped right in.

Good time for some souvenirs, all small stuff as we have to carry everything around and we also found a Calligraphy Master who sold big paintings. We are still thinking to get one, but 7000 RMB is a bit much for one of those – especially if we have to ship them back to Germany.

After the shopping street we went into the Tibetan area and had lunch in a real Tibetan restaurant where we had nice Yak Dumplings, some kind of curry dish as well as our first Yak Butter Tea. Well, the latter one we can now check off on the todo list and perhaps later in life we have another in Tibet itself, but for now we do not really need one 😉 It has a very specific salty taste.

Unfortunately the meal was not so right for our princess, so she got a bit out of control and we had to speak some clear word with her that she is not the only one on this trip who wants stuff. After we sorted that out we hopped in a small guesthouse and got her French fries there, then everything was ok again.

Interesting enough the area is also know for its outdoor shopping options, there are a lot of shops there and you get everything for hiking, camping and mountain tours. We had some looks around as Manu always has trouble finding a fitting outdoor pants in Germany, but funny enough it wa the same here. We found one, which was of course a brand one, and that was quite expensive. But for the rest even here a lot of the shops did not have her size… and we though the Chinese were small 😉

After the bus ride home we enjoyed the real warm weather a bit on the terrace and then  started to pack for our short trip to Leshan and Emei Shan. As we return to Chengdu we’re planning to leave one, the biggest, back pack with all the stuff we do not need here at the train station and travel a bit lighter. But this sorting out did take some time and we also got rid of some old stuff. Still, it seems our luggage is self-expanding 🙁

Diner we had in a small restaurant nearby, greasy and old, but the food was great. One problem though that two quite drunk Chinese liked the fact that we could speak a bit Chinese and kept hanging around, Charlotte got a bit scared by those two and also we were not that amused.