PANDAS!

Chengdu – home of Pandas and Prada

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November 16th 2011
Chengdu We added Chengdu into our trip as it seemed like a pleasant stop off on the way and had heard of a panda conservation and breeding centre there. I was expecting Chengdu to be similar to Xi’an but it is a lot bigger and more modernised, the street of designer stores however did seem a bit out of place; you could have been mistaken to thinking you were in Paris or Milan. We d ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more