{"id":18920,"date":"2015-10-27T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=18920"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:26:26","slug":"west-sichuan-self-drive-trip-starts-from-zhengzhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/henan-travel\/zhengzhou-travel\/west-sichuan-self-drive-trip-starts-from-zhengzhou","title":{"rendered":"West Sichuan Self Drive Trip Starts from Zhengzhou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our 20-day self drive tour of\u00a0 the West Sichuan Province (\u00a0\u00a0the historical region of “Kham”) kicks off at Zhengzhou (\u90d1\u5dde). A year before I’ve planned this great trip joining one of my former college classmates – Mr. Chen Weixiang’s couple team for a self-guided drive\u00a0tour from Zhengzhou to the Western Sichuan Province covering such dreamy places as Daocheng, Yading, Kangdi, Danba, Hailuogou, Siguniangshan and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon\u00a0I took the 3-hour\u00a0high speed train from Beijing West Railway Station to Zhengzhou East Railway Station. The first class cabin was quite spacious with two soft and\u00a0large seats for one row, quiet and less crowded.<\/p>\n

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The first class cabin was quite spacious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taking advantage of the precious 3 hours to cram up for travel and geographical knowledge for this long trip, I flipped over the related pages of the travel guide book “Lonely Planet” and the newly bought “West Sichuan Tourist Atlas”.<\/p>\n

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Cram up for travel and geographical knowledge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arriving at Zhengzhou East Railway Station,\u00a0I interchanged for Subway Line 1 and got off at the station of Green City Plaza. At the exit I was met expectedly by Mr. Chen Weixiang and Song Yuan, the only two former college mates in the city. My hotel was just a ten-minute walk from the subway station, not far from Mr. Chen’s residential block.<\/p>\n

After a quick check-in at our lodging hotel in Zhengzhou, we soon found us at a nearby Sichuan food restaurant, very clean and a bit noisy, a typical Chinese restaurant. Mr. Chen brought a dozen of canned beer from home. Life was so beautiful with two of my former college classmates sitting before me, eating, drinking, talking about the past, present and future. Do we have future as a man over 50? Just forget the question and enjoy the present\u00a0life!<\/p>\n

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Life was so beautiful with two of my former college classmates sitting before me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a dinner for the former classmate get-together, a dinner for\u00a0wishing the\u00a0success and smoothness for our coming self-drive trip starting next day. We hated to part for the night, but\u00a0 there is no never-ending feast. A little bit dizzy, I walked back to my lodging hotel and fell a sound sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waked up by the sunrise glow coming between\u00a0my hotel hotel window curtains, I feel lucky at the site of the beautiful sunrise in a city often shrouded in smog. The sunrise glow is possibly a good sign for our coming 6000 km round trip to the West Sichuan Province.<\/p>\n

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The sunrise glow coming between\u00a0my hotel room window curtains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Follow us to explore the West Sichuan Province. Any questions, just drop a line!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our 20-day self drive tour of\u00a0 the West Sichuan Province (\u00a0\u00a0the historical region of “Kham”) kicks off at Zhengzhou (\u90d1\u5dde). A year before I’ve planned this great trip joining one of my former college classmates – Mr. Chen Weixiang’s couple team for a self-guided drive\u00a0tour from Zhengzhou to the Western Sichuan Province covering such dreamy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3155,1904,1922,84],"tags":[3157,3158,3156],"class_list":["post-18920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hanzhong","category-henan-travel","category-shaanxi-travel","category-zhengzhou-travel","tag-west-sichuan-province-travel","tag-west-sichuan-tour","tag-west-sichuan-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18934,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions\/18934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}