We recently traveled to another province (where the climate is often referred to as “forever Spring”) to visit some friends. On our way to our destination, we had an 8 hour layover in the Chengdu airport. But don’t worry…we had these goodies to snack on!
That is rabbit skull!!! and only $2 per head 🙂
By no means are we criticizing our city (because we love where we live), but upon our arrival…this is what greeted us.
This place reminds us a lot of Colorado!
We did the touristy things, like strolling through the historic downtown:
Beat taffy? Kristen thinks it’s taffy…I’m not so sure. Anyways, we had a pretty large crowd cheering us on!
One of the coolest parts of the trip was driving out to another town for a night. Some of the views from the drive…
Yangtze River
Tibetan style home. These houses were massive!
On the top of many of the homes is this statue of a lion (although Kristen thinks its a dragon). Anyways, the mouth always faces the back of the house so that it eats up the hard work, and then poops out money in the front of the house. True story.
Kristen riding a yak! For just $3 you can too.
Coolest lady ever!!! Kristen bought a bracelet from her.
We were also able to visit a village. The village was at 12,000ft elevation and in the middle of nowhere!
The village
One of the many farms we passed by.
Then to top it all off, we were invited into one of the homes in the village (seen above) for an authentic meal of yak butter tea, chicken (which was killed, plucked, and cooked in front of us), pickled vegetables, and barley bread.
Kristen with the yak butter tea. She was not a fan so, in order to not be rude, I drank her’s as well 🙂 It’s best to drink while hot… after cooling off there is a nice oil film that accumulates on top that just makes it tough to drink.
boiled chicken top right, pickled veggies in the center, and the barley bread on the left. Oh, just left of the chicken is a sauce they used that was really good! I put it on everything…although I think it was supposed to be just for the chicken.
Overall, it was an incredible trip! We hope to return soon!!!
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