{"id":265,"date":"2008-04-10T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-04-10T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:20:51","slug":"day-297-chongqing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Day 297 &#8211; Chongqing, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a simple free breakfast at the hostel and after I washed my clothes, I went into the center of the city. Actually I was planning on going to the Three Gorges Museum, but there was no direct bus there. I was planning on changing buses, but the conductor never told me to get off at the right spot. Instead I was kicked off at the end of the line.<\/p>\n<p>I walked and found the cable car going over the Yangzi River. For only 2 RMB I was able to get to the other side quickly. Then I decided to to the other cable car, over the Jialing River. Then I visited Arhat Temple. After being accosted by beggars while buying my ticket, I went inside the strange city temple but was unable to find the 500 Arhat hall that was mentioned in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Chongqing is probably the least tourist friendly city I&#8217;ve seen in China. It is very difficult to get around. Many bus stops are not labeled.&nbsp; Barely anyone speaks English in the city. Luckily some staff at the hostel do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a simple free breakfast at the hostel and after I washed my clothes, I went into the center of the city. Actually I was planning on going to the Three Gorges Museum, but there was no direct bus there. I was planning on changing buses, but the conductor never told me to get off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 297 &#8211; Chongqing, China&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}