Return Trip - Day 8: Pandas

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April 18th 2015
Started the day off at the Chengdu Panda Center. This started off as a place to care for sick or injured pandas, but now is also a research center, breeding program, and reserve. Currently they have 120 pandas on site - nearly half of the total captive pandas in the world. The goal is to increase the panda population, and they are now starting to release some pandas that were bred in captivity bac ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan

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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