East Coast Park

It's been ages since we last went to East Coast Park for cycling & breathe in the sea breeze. It's been raining for the whole week of school holidays but thank goodness the rain finally stopped & welcome us to the park with a bright sun last Friday.


Beautiful trees provided us with nice shade and scenery along the way.

Was surprised to find a new Water-skiing centre on where the old swimming lagoon used to be. But that's a nice change.:-)

I sure miss the days when we used to spend our holidays with family & friends at the shalets when we were younger.

Guess what, a mini merry-go-round at the small amusement park near the McDonald site. I would sure like to sit on a bigger version of merry-go-round again. Wonder where it would be available in Spore:-)

Chengdu Chunxi Road, China

At the central of the famous shopping street of Chengdu: 春熙路 Chunxi Road, is a sitting statute of the famous father of revolution: Mr Sun Wen or also more well-known as 孙中山先生, Mr Sun Zhong Shan.

Beautiful flowers had been arranged along the street. The white & purple cabbage-like flowers are unique. I wonder what they are called. I had forgotten to ask my local guide.:P

Although it's always sad to be end of my holidays but I am always glad after each tour, no matter how beautiful or advanced the tour city, to be back home to my country, Singapore.:-)

Panda Land, China

Our visit to National Treasure of China, Pandas at Chengdu: 成都大熊猫繁育研究基地 Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Could you imagine that the new born panda is pink in color & only size of a finger?The research centre has quite good environment. I would have mistaken it as entering S'pore Zoo as they created a very cosy playground environment for the pandas.


I didn't know that Pandas can actually climb high trees until this visit, did you spot one at above picture?
They are forever busy munching their bamboo shoots.
I think the centre had done a great job in creating an environment that had made it easy for tourists to view the lifestyle of Pandas. They deserve a recommendation. It's certainly worth visiting. :-)

九寨沟, Jiu Zhai Gou, China

Another attraction: 树正瀑布 Shu Zheng Waterfall.

Does above resemble shape of a flower?



From waterfall to rapids to lake, a good geography lesson

Tibetan houses & shops along the lake, did you notice something familar on the door for those been to the "Om" retreat?

Stupas in front of a cultural village
It's a pity we don't have much time to explore further as our tour is only a day here at Jiuzhaigou.

九寨沟, Jiu Zhai Gou, China

Amazingly, here is another lake: 熊猫海 Panda Lake whose surface is still covered with snow.

珍珠滩瀑布 Pearl Shoals Falls Does the ice on the right resemble many piglets drinking milk and a small elephant?

Can you identify LingZhi in the picture?

九寨沟, Jiu Zhai Gou, China

Another of its beautiful lakes: 五花海 Five -colored Lake or Peacock Lake features a color spectrum from pale blue to emerald green.
In Chinese, the locals called the lakes as 海instead of 湖 as they admired/long for the vast sea.

We can see at least 2 kinds of birds singing around us.



Beautiful lakes they are, it is really worth our effort to travel all the way to admire the beauty of Jiuzhaigou fairyland.

九寨沟, Jiu Zhai Gou, China

Finally, we reached the famous 九寨沟, Jiuzhaigou Fairyland that lies about 2,500m above sea level . It welcomes us with a nice, beautiful sun that warms our soul. 九寨沟 got its name bec of 9 tribal villages occupying the valley. Its unparalleled natural beauty: transparent & multi-coloured water in its 108 lakes that is surrounded by abundant forests and snow-capped mountains helped it won two World Heritage titles - 世界自然遗产, 世界生物圈保护区.


Our 1st destination is this 诺日朗瀑布 NuoRiLang Waterfall where we took many beautiful shots. If you look carefully, the water in the waterfall had actually frozen to ice. So, you can see different natural ice scuplture according to your imagination.

Our tour guide went in search of our missing tour mates who could not bear to leave the beautiful place:P
Actually, the place is even more beautiful in Autumn. I recall snapping more than 1000 shots in Jiuzhaigou with my friends 10 years ago using film cameras. If Digital camera was available then, we could have snapped more:P