Chongqing Deep Explore: A Real Look at the Sights and Tastes

Alright, if you are thinking about taking a trip to Chongqing, China, that, really, you’ve got to read this first. So I am going to give you a full, real account of what it’s like, at the end of the day, to take the “Chongqing Deep Explore” tour, specifically focusing, basically, on the bits about seeing cool stuff and eating the kind of food locals eat. Basically, get ready for what I have to say. It’s almost going to be a rollercoaster.

First Impressions of Chongqing

Okay, first off, Chongqing will greet you with a view, so it is not like anything else you have seen. The city goes straight up and down steep hills with skyscrapers kinda perched on top, or too it’s all so mind-boggling at the beginning. Very, very many people, just tons and tons. Anyway, that kinda hits you. You, I guess, expect it, maybe, when you see pictures, yet being there, seeing it for real, too it’s something else altogether. Arriving for this tour, you too get this sense that, really, you are heading into a really important, and interesting slice of China, in some respects. It is also quite different, almost, than Shanghai or Beijing.

Sightseeing: More Than Just Buildings

Now, listen up, because this tour isn’t, honestly, about ticking off places on a list. Like, there is stuff about history, yet there’s something about how the guide makes it alive that I was pretty interested in, and you see this one old park, that Eling Park I am speaking of, which, arguably, is the oldest private garden, I would suggest, and yet when they point it out, it is right on the Yuzhong Peninsula. From this height, if you are there, and can you just image yourself looking down to the city in the clouds, literally! It really sunk home. And there is Ciqikou Ancient Town, which might be crowded, typically, but wandering through those old streets, by the way, you kind of get a taste of how things used to be and how it almost comes to life with little shops and local places there too.

Lunchtime Adventures: Local Eateries

Right, but, you know, we come to the important bit which is the food. Basically, forget those fancy restaurants because this part is about those tucked-away spots where everyone sits down for a bit of chow. The tour guide will help you find, like your, noodle joints that steam with flavors, also the restaurants serving these pots so hot you might literally blow a fuse (which really is hotpot). Also, let’s face it, so not always the easiest places for visitors, and basically I will recommend that, having the help from someone local, just, very, very much improves that experience, doesn’t it?

Dinner is Served: Authentic Chongqing Flavors

At night, when you are looking, usually, at trying all different eats and foods after the sites from earlier on, Chongqing changes, so it actually becomes even more tasty. Maybe because I became famished, frankly. They, arguably, do go right in, I think, for dishes that just aren’t really for show. We are talking foods, actually, so spicy that make your nose run yet you actually don’t wish to quit, and too I would suggest, at that time the tour took me on this road off Jiefangbei CBD – if memory still helps out – where it too became just too exciting and lit. Again, that kind of inside info helps, but by the time that food will be gone, basically, you will feel like an eater from here and there, by the way.

What Could Be Improved

Let’s be straight up here; that the amount of people too can be a bit much at these top times. Anyway, those, like your, major sights so there’ll usually have those big busloads rolling in and out by the time of the peak season for all sorts, actually so it might get crammed. While that I loved this peek, actually, into all those places that the regular visitor couldn’t basically ever be seeing so there was not very many moments and options by yourself by the way. Plus I was expecting something very high end instead it just too was real local for most! But actually this made things memorable, alright, I might not deny, you.