Lhasa to Chengdu
Not too much to report since the last blog. On our last night in Lhasa, we enjoyed a very nice dinner show featuring Tibetan musicians and dancers in traditional costumes. We also tasted a variety of Tibetan dishes. I can sum up Tibetan cuisine as follows: "1001 Ways to Cook a Yak". I'm not kidding. They had yak in some type of pita bread. They had sliced yak, yak in a hard-boiled egg (think of a deviled egg, where the 'devil' part is replaced by yak), yak with some type of egg covering, yak soup, and so on. That said, it was quite good. Properly prepared, yak can be pretty tasty!This morning (May 18) we got up early to board the plane for Chengdu, which is quite hot (85 degrees), humid and smoggy, but the smog actually contains a sufficient number of oxygen atoms to sustain human life. Quite a refreshing change from Lhasa. (The air is Lhasa is crystal clear, but unfortunately there's just not enough of it!)
Tomorrow we head for Mt. Leshan, about 2 hours by bus from Chengdu. That will entail a bit of a hike to the world's largest Buddha. The following day we will go to the Panda sanctuary, where we should be able to actually touch and even hold some pandas ... for a price. That should be very interesting.
Then we head for Xian, which will be our last stop (thankfully!) in China before we head for Japan next week.
No photos this time, but I should have some later!
posted by Dr. William Spangler @ 8:04 PM
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