A bamboo breakfast!

Chengdu & the Giant Panda

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December 20th 2011
As part of my 31st birthday present Dan researched and planned a trip for us to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the home of spicy Chinese cuisine and the epicentre for breeding, research and sustaining the giant panda species. What most of you probably don’t know is that ever since I was young and received a stuffed panda named Zen-Zen for Christmas when I was about 10 years old I have been ... read more

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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