Adult pandas

Chengdu Panda Heaven

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September 11th 2007
I wanted to call this blog "Chengdu and the 50p hair cut" but decided the pandas were more interesting. I did however get my hair cut, washed and head massaged for 50p, quality!! Anyway.......... We left our hostel in Xian knowing what to expect on the train. It was much the same as our train from Beijing to Xian but not quite as clean. The noise level however was just as loud but bizarly we ... 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