Last Sunday we went to the Science Museum and the Zoo. The science museum wasn't very exciting, we went mostly to experience the earthquake simulation room, but arrived between show times and weren't interested in staying around for two hours for the next show. We went to the Zoo instead, which was a nice ride into Hefei's suburbs. The Zoo was huge, and not aweful like the stories you typically hear of zoos in Asia. At the entrance, there are a ton of peacocks roaming around free, they were so beautiful. We saw tigers, pandas, lions, bears, kangaroos, ostriches, giraffes, zebras, hippos... It was a huge place. I think we were a greater spectacle than the animals though, many people stopped to look at the foreigners walk by and one guy even stopped and asked to
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