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### [Do the Du: Chengdu](https://www.addieweller.com/blog/do-the-du-chengdu)

10/10/16 5:08 AM

For China’s National Holiday, we packed up our duffle bags and headed down South to Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province. The travel was an experience in itself— it was our first time on a long train ride here (18 hours to be exact.) Hey, it was cheap, and we found out we had an extra day off, so we weren’t in any rush.

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