Panda's, panda's everywhere.... OK so they weren't quite wandering around the streets of Chengdu but I got to see a lot of them at a sanctuary there. I joined a tour from the hostel I was staying at - the tours are deliberately run in the morning when the giant panda's are at their most 'active'.... well, they sit there eating, and eating, and eating, and...... yup they don't seem to do much else other than eat and sleep! The fact that the keepers place their food close to the barrier that separated us and them contributed to the fact that we were able to get so near but they didn't seem too fussed about having us there.... the bamboo shoots were far more interesting! Although I swear one or two of the teenagers started to
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