Red Pandas

The Chengdu Zoo

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July 23rd 2012
On Monday, July 23, we went to the Chengdu Zoo. We mainly went to see the pandas since they are native to Sichuan province. We went there by long bus ride, and then the bus let us out on this little dirt path with no zoo in site. We were told to ride in a little motorbike cart (they're everywhere in Chengdu), so we did. It took us down this bumpy dirt path. I kept thinking we were going to fal ... 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