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Blue House Art Space  蓝顶艺术中心
Pete Sweeney (more chengdu)
For a firsthand look at Chengdu’s contemporary art scene at its most raw, check out the Blue House Art Space, a sprawling complex of studios located in way-south Chengdu. Blue House isn’t really a house, more a collection of non-descript warehouses interspersed with gardens, giant sculpted...

Lugu Lake  泸沽湖
Monica Liau (more chengdu)
Lugu Lake, Yanyuan, Sichuan 泸沽湖，位于川滇交界外的四川省盐源县泸沽湖镇 Lugu Lake allows for long (unsupervised) day treks filled with breathtaking quiet, beautiful views of the large, high-altitude lake, and peeks into traditional Mosuo life. Situated half in northern...

Tiger Leaping Gorge  虎跳峡
Pete Sweeney (more chengdu)
60km from Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County. Tiger Leaping Gorge in Zhongdian County. It's nestled between Yulong Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain. 虎跳峡距离丽江纳西族自治县县城60公里，这条峡谷在金沙江上游，全长18公里 ...

Kangding  康定
Bill Stranberg (more chengdu)
If you haven’t heard it yet, by the time you arrive, you’ll hear it blasting out of small shops, big shops, mountain sides, and well, nearly everywhere. People will travel from miles around to see the city and its surrounding mountains that inspired the famous love song. There’s a lot...

Tagong Grasslands  塔公草原
Pete Sweeney (more chengdu)
By the time I got to Tagong I needed it more than I realized. I’d spent a lot of time in the crowded, hot Chinese summer bouncing from big city to big city, and I felt like a steamed baozi, albeit a rather sweaty one. I read a couple of guidebooks and Tagong sounded nice; a small town rimmed by...

Le shan  乐山
Bill Stranberg (more chengdu)
The first thing to spring to mind when we came face to face with the big guy was “Smug.” This guy knows he’s the biggest Buddha around. He sits there, carved into the mountainside with this little, well, giant smirk on his face. This Buddha deserves it – his head is so big that a...

Emei Shan  峨眉山
Bill Stranberg (more chengdu)
Once we decided on Leshan, we had to go with Emei Shan as well. Emei is just a bit farther down the road from the Big Buddha and is truly one of the places you can’t miss even if you’re only in Chengdu for a short while. There are multiple ways to go about sightseeing at Emei. If you happen...

1000 Plateaus Art Gallery  千高原艺术画廊
Pete Sweeney (more chengdu)
Chengdu is an unquestioned arts centre as any quick tour of the city’s numerous art markets will illustrate. However, this same tour reveals that the overwhelming majority of the art market is dominated by reproductions or reinterpretations of Chinese traditional forms: calligraphy, landscapes,...

Qingcheng Shan  青城山
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Qingcheng Shan is considered to be one of China’s holiest mountains (actually, the fifth holiest) and is one of the birthplaces of Taoism. It is still home to monks who have spent their lives in peace and prayer at the over twenty temples and religious sights, all of which are bursting at the...

Bamboo Sea  蜀南竹海
Pete Sweeney (more chengdu)
While Western Sichuan gets the bulk of the attention from the nature-loving traveler, the Bamboo Sea in Southeast Sichuan, which was featured in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, merits an expedition. The Bamboo Sea is aptly named; a gorgeous primeval forest of bamboo spanning some 120 square...

Qing Yang Gong  青羊宫
Bill Stranberg (more chengdu)
Five yuan will gain you entrance to the Palace of the Green Lamb. Actually, though, there are two of them, and they aren’t very green, more of a bronze/brown. Truth be told, they are hardly lambs. Of the two, the one horned lamb is the more significant. This fella made its way to Chengdu from a...