Lijiang to Chengdu

Trip Start Mar 18, 2007
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Trip End Mar 16, 2008


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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Having arrived in Chengdu we decided to stay at Sim's Guesthouse which turns out to be great and most imnportantly... warm! Here we organised visiting the Giant Pandas nearby and they were fun to watch.

Only a few places other than China have pandas and there are less than 1000 giant pandas in the world today. Apart from China, giant pandas have been loaned to USA, Japan, Thailand and Austria. We read an article which stated that China was being paid USD 1,000,000 for the 2 giant pandas on loan to the USA.

The giant padnas we visited today had been bred in captivity and were having breakfast (bamboo) in the morning. We visited them early in the morning for their feeding as this is when they are the most active. Good fun to see and lots of photos were taken.
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