Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Continued from the last post that covered Days 01 to 09; Part 2 here covers Days 10 to 21! Day 10 (Daocheng to Litang) Daocheng Yading Geological Park (~1 hr) [blog post here]: we’d initially planned to visit Yading Nature
While this was the longest vacation we’ve taken as a family — 21 days, compared to the 18 days we spent in South Korea last year — the number of distinct places we visited this trip was actually fewer. This
We’d completely neglected earlier on in our itinerary planning to check which of the two international airports we’d be departing Chengdu from. There are two airports: Shuangliu, which is located near the city center, and Tianfu, which is much further
We stayed four nights at the Citadines South Chengdu, a serviced apartment block that’s south of the city center and about 30 minutes away by car. Our comments! The block is 24 floors, with our apartment located on the 22nd
Our initial already sedate plan for Day 20 was to return to Chengdu city center and visit Kuanzhai Alley, a historic district featuring renovated Qing Dynasty-era buildings. However, one look at the weather outside mid-morning today made us think again:
Day 19 continued into our laid-back winding-down segment of this long holiday: it was spent visiting Chunxi Road, Chengdu’s popular and well-known pedestrian shopping street. It’s a fairly large area, very pedestrian-friendly and packed with skyscraper-like luxury malls, traditional styled
While on our Didi car ride from Chengdu East Railway Station to Citadines South Chengdu yesterday, we passed by a mammoth structure that the daughter observed was the Chengdu New Century Global Center, which, according to Wikipedia, is either the
We opted for a leisurely check-out timing on Day 17 since we had nothing planned for the day apart from making our way back to Chengdu. We took on board the check-in time for our Chengdu accommodation — Citadines South
For the Jiuzhaigou segment of our trip, we stayed for two nights at Jisheng Hotel, a small-ish property. Our comments! We were booked into a Yin Yi 2-Bedroom Movie Viewing Family Suite, which is a single unit with two separate
Day 16: we spent the day at Jiuzhaigou Valley National Park. Short version: try not to visit in winter and/or when it’s a cloudy day, like we did. But if you have to, or it’s unavoidable because of MOE school
After 14 days of hustling around, our Day 15 was very sedate in comparison: we checked out of Somerset Riverview Chengdu early morning, then used Didi to get a ride to Chengdu East Railway Station for our 8:36AM departing train
We stayed for single nights at a number of properties this trip. Here’s a consolidated summary of the places we stayed at and quick notes. Chongcao Hotel Litang Mid-sized hotel that from the exterior looks like one of those 1990s-esque
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