Day out to Panda centre

Panda

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July 12th 2011
Hi All, We went to the Panda Breeding centre today with the hostel we are staying in. Now I know we said before we wouldn't go to a zoo but we thought we couldn't come to Chengdu and not see them. Anyway yes they are very cute. Some of the enclosures did seem small. The red pandas apparently fight like crazy and in fact some had lost ears and tails!! Why not seperate them comes t ... 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