That Jiuyan Bridge shining like a music box

Your discovery of Chengdu can perhaps begin at the bustling Fruit and Vegetable Market, an authentic gastronomic paradise where you can make an initial acquaintance with its many curious gastronomic delicacies, ranging from meat skewers perfumed with spices to vegetable rolls as colourful as rainbows. The People's Park, on the other hand, hosts morning tai chi collective exercises amidst flowerbeds and mirrored lakes, while the nine-arched Jiuyan Bridge is the emblem of Chengdu's respectful metamorphosis: the reconstruction of the original 16th-century structure has been carried out faithfully to the original but, when night falls, the new structure with its nightclubs and restaurants lights up like a chillon of lights capable of bewitching even the most sceptical of this bewitching city's charm.