China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[Aepsilons]

Then come to Chongqing!

Haha I want to but vacation is not till July. Oh I hear so many lovely things about Chongqing.

You're going now? So jealous!!

>_<)/") -{{@

 

[AndrewJin]

Haha I want to but vacation is not till July. Oh I hear so many lovely things about Chongqing.

You're going now? So jealous!!

>_<)/") -{{@

I'm already back from Chongqing.
I hope I can go BACK to Chongqing soon!

 

[cirr]

I'm already back from Chongqing.
I hope I can go BACK to Chongqing soon!

Where are the pretty girls？Hurry up！Do hurry up！！

 

[AndrewJin]

Where are the pretty girls？Hurry up！Do hurry up！！

I dare to capture photos of metro and CPC of Chongqing, but I dare not to take photos of Chongqing girls. I guess I would have got slapped in my face if I had captured their faces! Let me search... If I have accidentally taken some.

 

[Aepsilons]

I dare to capture photos of metro and CPC of Chongqing, but I dare not to take photos of Chongqing girls. I guess I would have got slapped in my face if I had captured their faces! Let me search... If I have accidentally taken some.

Hahahaha! LOL! Bro, you should have just asked them out. "Hi darling, you're so beautiful La! Like it if we went to get ice cream together ? Come on, you're teasing my heart La!"

Where are the pretty girls？Hurry up！Do hurry up！！

ha ha ha !

 

[AndrewJin]

Hahahaha! LOL! Bro, you should have just asked them out. "Hi darling, you're so beautiful La! Like it if we went to get ice cream together ? Come on, you're teasing my heart La!"

When u say darling...that will be a noway back.

But there is also spicy stories.
Once I took photos in Wuhan Railway Station, a girl accidentally presented in my photo. And she rushed to me and directly took away my mobile phone and checked...U know what happened at last? She deleted all photos related to her and "helped" me add her in my Wechat APP...
I didn't say a word, everything happened too fast.

 

[AndrewJin]

Continue Part3 Chongqing!
Another day in Chongqing
Breakfast, one of the most famous 小面（small noodles) restaurant, I had to eat it standing in front of the restaurant.

After seminar was over, I walked to Hongyadong again, at the southern bank of Jialing River

Where Jialing River meets Yangtze

Hongyadong

A riverside hotel
On the top is the upper town

Going up to the top of Hongyadong is the upper town

At the observation platform at the top of Hongyadong
Jiangbei District, north to Jialing River and Yangtze River

 

[AndrewJin]

For dinner, of course Chongqing Hot Port
Wait for nearly one hour, from the day was bright to dark

This time, all spicy soup, for free.
In Chongqing, ordering not spicy soup requires 20-30yuan.

Walk back to Liberation Monument
@Shotgunner51 This building has similar elements of China Pavilion in Shanghai

Pedestrian street of Liberation Monument

@cirr @TaiShang @Edison Chen
Look at this hot family!

 

[AndrewJin]

I spent another day in Chongqing after the seminar was over.
Going to Dazu District by bus, 1.5 hours from downtown Chongqing

The location of Dazu in Chongqing Municipality

Changzhou, An ancient city in Dazu District

City Wall

Dazu District is where Dazu Rock Carvings are located, a UNESCO world heritage site.
Dazu Rock Carvings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings, dating back as far as the 7th century AD, depicting and influenced by Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist beliefs.

You can use public wifi to get access to audio guide of Dazu Rock Carvings

A harmony of Confucism, Taoism and Buddhism

Hell

轮回

 

[AndrewJin]

Back to the main districts of Chongqing from Dazu Rock Carvings
I saw some people by the streets holding a board which said, 重庆城区指路，Direct roads in Chongqing.
I must be like driving in the labyrinth!

Riverside road of Jialing River

arriving at lower town, north to Yangtze River on the Yuzhong Peninsular

a distant view of Nan'an District, at the southern bank of Yangtze River, linked by cablecar which I would try later

Huguang Guild Hall
Built by people immigrated from Hubei/Hunan/(two provinces belong to a single Huguang Province in Qing Dynasty) . Today, it is estimated that 70% of people in Sichuan/Chongqing are descendants of immigrants from Hubei/Hunan Province and also provinces in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

Dinner at a 江湖菜 restaurant（Rivers and lakes Dishes).
江湖(Rivers and lakes) means all corners of the country or a society which is not controlled by certain laws and government. This word is usually used in Kung Fu novels.
江湖菜（Rivers and lakes Dishes) is opposite to those formal schools of Chinese cuisine, deeply rooted in lower class in history. It is easygoing, innovative and has no certain rules or styles.

 

[AndrewJin]

The easiest way from Caiyuanba Railway Station(old Chongqing Station) in the lower town to the nearest metro station in the upper town is by escalator!

At the lower town, viewing the upper town

If u don't use escalator(2yuan, free if transfer from metro and bus using transport card), you have to climb this.
There are steps everywhere in Chongqing, within upper town, from lower town to upper town. Quite often the ground floor of a building is actually 3rd-10th floor, there will be a notice which says, pls go to fifth floor if u want to go to the street.

One of the entrances to Huangguan Grand Escalator

I am not acrophobic. But when I turned around, I couldn't feel my legs!
U got to try this if u travel to Chongqing!
@TaiShang @cirr @Shotgunner51 @Edison Chen @Armstrong @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @Georgeclark
@Gufi @Rajaraja Chola @powastick @Azizam @ahojunk @Rasengan @Shan-e-ibrahim @definitelynotIndianet al

 

[AndrewJin]

After exiting the grand escalator is Upper Town

A bridge over Yangtze River

Old Chongqing Railway Station and bus station

a panorama of lower town and upper town

 

[AndrewJin]

Another weird transport method is Yangtze River Cablecar, not the sort of cablecars used in mountains, but for commuters from the upper town to the southern bank of Yangtze River. Now, locals choose metro more and cablecar becomes a popular attraction among travelers. It takes roughly 4 minutes for 1166m.
(10 yuan one-way, 1.8 yuan/Transport card）

 

[AndrewJin]

The night view of Chongqing is the most exciting in mainland China I think, even better than Shanghai's Pudong. The buildings are actually not that high, but they are built on slopes or tops of mountains. There are some observation platforms on the mountains of Nan'an District.

Online photos

End of Part 3 of my Enshi/Chongqing trip
Part1 Part one, from Wuhan to Enshi (by high speed train)
Part2 Part two, Enshi Grand Canyon
Part3 Part three, Chongqing! Chongqing! (3-dimensional transport)

@AugenBlick @UKBengali @Luca1 et al

 

[Rasengan]

I am not acrophobic. But when I turned around, I couldn't feel my legs!
U got to try this if u travel to Chongqing!

Brother Jin fascinating pictures The escalator is very steep must be one of the longest in the world or at least in China. I would need to listen to Rock Balboa's song 'Gonna fly now' or Wong Fei Hong theme soundtrack 'A man of determination' to complete that marathon of walking up the stairs.