Train station big shedule and platform board?Thank goodness we had a guide.
Tim , Leah, and Bev at the train station
Nick and Suzane find a seat
As we slowly passed a station but did not stop
The Farmland was amazing, this is how it looked for miles
We stopped at this station and he flipped some flags and stood in his box.
Leaving the train station behind as we journey into Choingqing,the largest and most like most polluted city in the world!
When we left Chengdu by train to travel to our departure point in Chongqing on the Yangtze River. Our guide took us to the train depot and got us to the right train and even helped us find our seats. This would have been a little difficult without a guide as there are literally thousands of people at the train station on just a normal travel day. It looked like one huge crowd with little organization. The train station itself has huge boards with gates, cities, departure times etc. of course nothing is in English. We finally left the VIP area and boarded the train. It was older and very dirty. Not the surface kind of dirt, but the ground in kind of dirt that comes with years of use and light daily cleaning. We thought we had little spit tunes under our little tables but they were containers for hot water that had been filled so that we could make our tea or cup of soup. We did not use them.
This was a 5 hour ride. We saw much of the countryside of the interior of China. This was amazing to see. My friend Nick figured out how we could crack open the top of the windows so that we could stick our lens out and snap some pictures as we zoomed, well sometimes zoomed, by. We were all glad we had the experience once.
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