Day 5 in Chin

7am ‘hi, good morning’ yeah alright Wang I’m coming.

Stopped for handmade noods on the way to Chengdu. They had to run next door to find me a fork. Wang started peeling a whole bulb of garlic and offered me some!? Noods were crazy spicy.

9am arrive in Chengdu. Park somewhere that is not Mrs Panda hostel. What is going on. He ran off and disappeared for ages, pretty sure he went for a poo.

Walked down ‘Zhaixiangzi Alley’ and he made me pose with loads of stuff to take pictures.

Back in the car to Mrs Panda Hostel where I met the tour group. 8 peeps who’ve already been together a week. Outsider.

Got on the metro to go to a Monastery. Saw some more Buds. Rubbed a gate and now I will be brought fortune.

Bus to the Tibetan Quarter where there was a cool market type thing. Got some noods and a Starbucks 😏 and pineapple sticky rice. Not as good as mango. Managed to eat the whole bowl of noods with chopsticks. Pro.

Bus back to the hostel before leaving for the bullet train.

9:30pm arrive in Xi’an where our new tour guide picks us up.

Get the metro to our hostel. Apparently I paid more for a private room but would rather be in with the others so I swapped with another gal. Got free drinks out of it.

Made an enemy in half a day by impersonating her Irish accent. Oops.