Chris upclose with a Giant Panda

Giant Pandas in Chengdu

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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 ... 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