Giant Panda's and Buddha's

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November 28th 2012
We arrived back in to Chengdu after our 10 hour bus ride from Jiuzhaigou glad not to have anymore long bus rides! Yeah right - this is China after all, everywhere you want to go takes forever as it's just so big. We got the bus to Leshan from the main bus station in Chengdu which we needed to take to the end of the line and then change to a number 13 to get to the Buddha. We sat n ... 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