Giant Pandas in Chengdu
April 17th 2008 We arrived late morning into Chengdu off the back of our first train experience in China - an overnight hard sleeper from Yangshuo. I should point out that the hard sleeper isn't actually a wooden bench as we had feared before boarding, but simply an open 6 bed dorm into the carriageway. Apart from the music blasting out of the carriage speaker directly above our head for most of the journey, I ha
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