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Chengdu near Wenshu Monastery in 1993 - Chengdu
Chengdu near Wenshu Monastery in 1993
Chengdu 1987 and 1993

My first time in Chengdu was 1987. With a friend I did a four days adventure trip to Jiuzhaigou. Please read more of my adventure in my travelogue! Or go to my Jiuzhaigou-Page.
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I liked Chengdu very much in 1987: old wooden houses, friendly people, nice markets. A very nice Chinese Opera house. And the impressive Wenshu-monastery!

Chengdu 1993
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Many years I did not want to go back to Chengdu, as I liked it so much in 1987 and I knew, that everything must have changed during the years.

But in 1993 I came back and it was even worse than I had thought. I arrived by bus in the north of the city near the train station and had to take another bus to the south for the hotel. This busride took almost one hour. Chengdu looked like a city after a terrible war: big holes where the old houses had been. Big cranes were building high modern office buildings. I hated it! But then I came back to Wenshu-Monastery, which had changed from a quiet temple to a bustling Buddhist university with lots of worshippers. This made me feel at peace with all the changes.

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  • Pros:Much to see
  • Cons:very polluted
  • Last visit to Chengdu: Aug 1993
  • Intro Updated Jun 21, 2006
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