The town center is a square presided over by a giant stature of Mao. The statue is fronted by thousands of potted plants, the stunning reds, pinks and gold colors of which set off the stark white Mao, right arm raised. And everybody and anybody can take a break there, sitting on the steps: Tibetan monks, construction workers, sweethearts, families, toddlers, farmers. Photographers swarm you if you look anything like an outsider
Chinese candy art.
Tai Chi in the park.
Tai Chi, jazz, and ballroom dancing keep the elders fit before dusk.
Sichuan food is famous for its firery flare. Hot peppers and Sichuan numbing spice create an explotion of flavor and hellish heat. For this meal we later found out we were eating snail and frog, so maybe the addition of a few extra spices wasn't so bad.
Yum. Bull frog.
Hot nights in Chengdu! Drinks and the traditional Chines art of juggling flaming Bicardi bottles. Rock on!
