Chengdu

I went to Chengdu to see some Pandas and get a haircut.  Great success on both counts. First, some pandas:

As for the haircut, I went to the nicest place I could find.  It set me back about $4.  The joy of non-tradable goods.

Other happenings in Chengdu included a Sichuan cooking class (Mapo Tofu & Twice-cooked pork), a trip to a Buddhist temple, the spiciest meal of my life (i looked like I did after the Great Wall hike...) and a cake fight.  The cake fight started out as a normal birthday party for one of the hostel staff, but things got messy pretty quick.  Fortunately, there were plenty of bags of chicken feet for people to snack on.

Before

After