We have spend 4 days in Chengdu and love Sichuan province! It's like coming to tropic paradise after dry Beijing. We have been to Sichuan opera, panda zoo (where there really were around 40 pandas!) and to a mountain near Chengdu. It's really humid and we have to do a lot of laundry after each day but it's all good. Tomorrow we take a bus to Chongqing, which is one of the biggest cities in the world with 32 million people and from there we start a 3 day Yangtse cruise. Really looking forward for the cruise and being outside these big cities for some time. There is most likely no internet available in next 4-5 days so next post is coming after the cruise. I'm trying to upload pictures but at least the connection in this hostel is way too slow..