oh no! back in the doo so soon? chengdu. china. november 23rd - 30th

well, we are back in chengdu much sooner than anticipated and under unfortunate and disappointing circumstances. we have checked into a new hostel called 'dragontown' in the restored ancient area 'kuan xiang zi', not far from the loft hostel where we were staying before. judy in not due to return back for another two weeks. we are alone to process what has just happened, to regroup, rest and refocus our travel plans. the first couple of days are frustrating, not wanting to be here, wanting to be back in tibet and on our way to nepal. it was hard to get that out of our heads, but eventually it simmers down and we are able to start thinking about moving forward with new directions and new travel plans. after another week in chengdu and after much effort and discussions about possibly still flying to nepal or just heading down to south east asia, we decided it would be nice to spend more time in china. we found out earlier from judy that you can have up to two visa extensions from the original one, so that was our plan, to extend our visas again. we are happy with our decision and decide to head south by overnight sleeper train to kunming in yunnan province.