We spent Sunday in Chongqing. I had hoped to see the pandas at the zoo, but we ended up having a quiet relaxing day instead. We arrived at the hotel, thinking we would have to store our bags until check-in time, but there was a room available for us straight away. Apparently it was an upgrade to an executive room. It was a nice enough room, but it did make us wonder what the room Graham had booked would have been like.
We dropped our bags in the room and headed out to explore the surrounding area and find out where the subway was. Our plan had been to catch the subway to the zoo, but we both realised that we were too tired to enjoy a zoo excursion. We walked for a few blocks, wandered into a market that we discovered was mainly for birds, found our way past all kinds of knitted goods, then stumbled across an interesting temple. We discovered a tourist area at the junction of the two rivers and then managed to navigate our way back to the hotel with the help of Graham's iPad and some helpful shop assistants.
Interesting things we did see - lots of men with a big stick and ropes, which they used to carry heavy items. There were men offering to take our suitcases up the many steps to the road, but Graham carried them up. Our large suitcase weighed 22 kg, and the smaller one would have weighed easily half that, so it was an impressive feat.
We put our feet up for a while, then ventured out again in a different direction during the afternoon. Another rest before dinner time, another walk, a complete lack of finding any local restaurants that appealed to us, and we found ourselves deciding to eat at the hotel. That's really unlike us, but it suited us both. Steak for dinner and we were asleep in no time.
Oh, just as expected, we didn't see Easter eggs for sale anywhere. :-)
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