Got up stupidly early again (needing lay in pronto) And took the one hour bus drive to the Chengdu Panda breeding centre. It was a sunny but cool day. The Pandas were incredible, normaly they do bugger all and are quite placid apart from 2 days a year when its mateing time. Today was one of those days, all the adults were on heat and were wondering around, rolling around and generally doing active things that dopey Pandas dont normaly do. The most incredible part was the Baby Pandas. They were really mobile and playfull. They look almost unreal. The human like eyes (more so then the elephants) give the appearance of children in panda suites. I must have taken 100 photos of the baby Pandas allown. After a couple of hours and a museum we
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