Designer Explorer

Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the beautiful countryside on the way to Bi Feng Xia. There were mountain ranges with waterfalls and rivers, rice or tea fields with people out harvesting. Very picturesque. The cons of having an iPhone as opposed to an actual camera I suppose. 

I stayed in one of the many large houses, whose sole purpose was to house tourists. The sweet, little family stayed in one room on the bottom floor and the next three floors were for guests but mostly unoccupied. Breakfast was fruit, a milk carton and a sweet in the morning, and they would cook for the guests every night. I had lunch at the restaurant near the Base entrance. 

YOOO! Ok so I finally decided to dedicate this day to uploading all the photos from ages ago. 

First up! Chengdu, China! Bottom pic is Nova Travellers Lodge where I stayed for a night before heading off to see the pandas! Hilarious little room, loved it. They had bikes for free hire (90yuan deposit in case ya break it) so I did a self exploratory tour of Chengdu. 

For the record, it is a bike-friendly city, but road rules are more like guidelines in this place. I learnt the hard way to go with the flow, rather than follow the signs. After getting tragically lost trying to find Jinli Ancient St, I ended up at the People's Park, a beautiful garden with various sitting areas, boat rides, and tea houses scattered throughout. Took my time meandering, though I didn't see the entire thing, it's huge!

Unfortunately I lost all bothers for updating my China and HK pictures, it'll happen one day I'm sure. But in the meantime, I have arrived back in Los Angeles and this time with more to explore! WOOT WOOT.

Already I have booked trips to:

Palm Springs

But I finally found a place that sells pies!!!

I kid you not, nowhere in this city does. Lots of mexican and international foods, but no pies (Wonder what country they originated in)

Anyway, I had to go to The Grove again to buy iphone plugs. (I’ve been using my room mates and she has the constant shits so not borrowing from her anymore)

Then I figured I’d just catch the 16 into Downtown to check out Santee Alley. The bus stopped a few blocks away from it so I thought I’d just walk the distance, and on my way I passed an alley I had passed many a time, yet never gone down it.