Since we completed the Willy Wonka Chocolate river, our trip has accelerated immensely. Saw the biggest buddha in the world at Leshan to Riss holding a baby Panda in Chengdu. Chengdu would have to be the cleanest Chinese city we had visited (and the largest at 38 million people). But that statement only lasted a few hours when I had the runs real bad... I was crook the whole two days, spending a majority of sightseeing overlooking the tiles in the bathroom. My pr...

Just made it to Leshan after a terrible 6hr minibus ride from Chongqing. A treturious journey over concrete craters and dodging insane motorbike riders. At one stage, I suddenly woke to the screetching of rubber to concrete as we were sliding down the wet freeway into a Chinese Army troop carrier. Lucky miss, and i was wide awake for the next 5 hours of the journey. The last 4days and 3nights was spent on the Yangtze River. A polluted river the colour of Willy Wo...

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