Owners of Iphones, Ipads, and Ipod touches rejoice!  For getting around Chongqing has never been easier.  Over the past couple of years "Taxi-Books" have been floating around Chongqing, allowing anyone with a purse, or the willingness to walk around with an extra cigarette-pack sized bulge in their pocket, to get to a number of popular destinations with relative ease (open taxi-book, find desired location, show taxi driver).  However, as fashion trends have begun to move toward slimmer fitting pants, and away from the once fashionable man purse, that extra bulge has become not only uncomfortable, but inconvenient, and getting around town usually results to struggling to give directions in broken chinese, or calling/texting your one local friend to have them deal with the Chongqinghua slurring cabi.  

Struggle no longer my friends, as a savior is upon us... well, some of us(unfortunately not me).  In true Darwinian fashion, the fine folks behind the aforementioned Taxi-Book, have got with the times and created the Chongqing Taxi-Book application(available here).  Not only does "Chongqing Taxi-Book - The App." have over 300 locations for you to choose from, broken down into 10 separate categories, from Nightlife + Entertainment, to Healthcare + Education, but it also offers text-speech pronunciation of said locations(incase your cab driver can't read. trust me, it happens), and a 12,000 word english-chinese dictionary.  So now you can keep the skinny jeans, forget the man-purse, and still get where you need to go!  And for a few faithful readers, you can do so for free... 

***CQSCENE.COM and Taxi-Book are giving away free downloads of Chongqing Taxi-Book - The App.  to the first 3 people to leave a comment, telling us your favorite destination in Chongqing.***