Monday, May 14, 2012

Cíqìkǒu 磁器口 old town in Chongqing

If you have plenty of time to explore Chongqing...Ciqikou old town might also be worth a visit.!

It`s main pedestrian street is the usual "Chinese tourist attraction standard" focusing on selling things + it`s very noisy, crowded and not so authentic...

...but wonder away (like I did) from the main street & you might discover much more!


Narrow streets leading to interesting places :)

One of the side streets sheltered from tourist masses

Artistic yard

Cool staircase 

Peeing boy: Chinese version (copied from life obviously)

Siesta time for chicken 

One of the TOP selling products on the tourist street: Szechuan  pepper spiced cookies :)

When you have walked the main street till the end you finish up here... 

...kinda strange place...

One of the side streets close to the river is cafeteria paradise (each of the cafeterias has its particular style & feel)... perfect for reading a book, writing your post-cards or just having a mango smoothie ;)



To get to Ciqikou Old town from down-town (Jiefangbei area) of Chongqing: direct bus Nr. 261 from Hong Ya Dong (56 Cangbai Lu) to Ciqikou will take ~ 50 minutes (2 RMB).

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