Karaoke in the Park

Seriously, what do the chinese people do all day?? it is a mystery to Amy and me and we"ve spent ten days in their company! We arrived in Chengdu today at 5:30 to be once again hounded by people trying to help. Help = ripping us off, he tried to charge 200 yuan for the taxi ride which was supposed to cost 14 yuan! Loser. We declined and got in another taxi.

The Dragon Town Hostel is a very cool building set on a building site...we like to think of it as home! In the dark it looked fairly desolate, in the day people put tables and chairs out on the mud and stones and act as if they are in paradise...again what do they do with their days!

We went exploring for the day and headed to the People's Park. There seems to be a lot going on - people standing around watching other poeple making a lot of noise or dancing. There was several groups crowded around people who were learnign to dance, there was a heap of old men sitting round playing chess-style games, and karaoke if you can believe it - Thursday afternoon and they dont have anything better to do than learn to dance or do karaoke in a park (badly I might add!) It's brilliant. We also found the line dancing crowd again...too much arm movement going on for me and Amy to feel confident enough to join in so we just sat and watched! :)

Next on the list of sights to see in Chengdu is the statue of Mao.....we got a little sidetracked by the shops which is no bad thing since the statue wasn't all that interesting anyway. Yes, the shopping was absolutely necessary and we didn't buy anything that we didn't need!! Oh yeah and the macds was necessary too!! (chinese food makes me ill apparently!)

and thats us up to date again...!!

Happy Birthday Mr So Smaw - have a good one :)