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Travel Blogs from Chengdu
Pandamonium
... eventually decided to wake up and eat the bamboo, every tourist in Chengdu had descended on the enclosure and it felt a little like we might end up in the enclosure with the amount of pushing a showing going on, I had a camera from behind balanced on my shoulder, Tim had one pushed through which ended up in his pocket, we eventually admitted defeat and fought our way out in favour of some other enclosures. The annoying thing about this tour is that they ...
Lhasa and Everest Base Camp are the two typical to
If you ask me how to travel in
tibet, I would say there are two places which you can never miss during your
Tibet tours: Lhasa
and Everest Base Camp (EBC). Lhasa is the economical, political, cultural and
educational center of Tibet and to certain extent, it is the most important city ...
Plays with Pandas (or wishes she could)
Today was the excursion to the great Panda Research Center in Chendgu. I was not one of the few who were willing to spend almost $200US to hold a Giant Panda and have my picture taken, the way that I see it, I can always go back and do it if finances allow before I leave. I did however buy a wallet with pandas on it as well as a stuffed panda for my bed and a gift for my mother (one person down, eight to buy for). Those little guys are ...
La route est longue, mais quels paysages!!
... en perspective !
Un arret a Daocheng ou on s’est fait invite chez des moines tibetains pour passer la nuit, une autre nuit a Litang, une ville qui m’a marquee pour son sky burial. Ce rite tibetain consiste en decouper le corps de la personne decedee pour la donner a manger aux vautours, animaux respectes ici. Je vous mets des photos softs, car moi-même je suis encore marquee par ce que j’ai vu. Ca fait malgre tout beaucoup reflechir sur ...
Emily's Panda Paradise - Panda Research Center
... hurt them very much in 2008. They survived from the ice age – and lived on bamboo – not very nutritious – have a simple and short digestive system so have not learned well how to digest other systems – after the 4th ice age, the temperature of the world was very cold, but bamboo survived, and they switched to eating bamboo about 2 million years ago. Now they live in mountain ara, and love bamboo. They can eat ...