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... just what everybody else does. You cann't watch nature calmly - they ask you to move because you appear in their pictures. There are not seats in the view points: to take photoes you don't need seats!<br>The view is nice: high mountains, forests - and what is the highlight: the lakes! So clear, like a mirror.You see the bottom and the surrounding reflecting in the water.<br>The last lake I went to was on the left side. It rained. Anyway, I put on my rain ...

... from the station next to our hostel and were dropped right outside the entrance at 8.45am. We grabbed breakfast then explored the huge grounds around the budda statue. <br>We first climbed a hill with a huge budda at the top. We noticed all of the railings were covered with old engraved padlocks. We had seen this at a peak on the great wall and our friend had explained that it was a tradition in chinese culture. Couples would place a padlock on high ...

... So the three of us sat down at the little tables in front of the vendors &#8211; by little I mean that you sit on really short stools and the table is easily below my knee when I&#8217;m standing &#8211; and talked. And talked. For like half an hour. And still the phone card didn&#8217;t come.<br><br>Finally the guy arrived with it, and Payton and Nicole tell me, "you should get out your phone." I went, &#8220;huh? I need my phone?&#8221; Since I knew that ...

Pandas! known in Chinese as Xiongmao, which literally translates as bear-cat. No idea why they chose that name. They are soooooo cute! We didn't have very long at the panda enclosures, unfortunately, but I did manage to get a few good pictures. As well as the Great Pandas that everyone is familiar with, they had Red Pandas, which look like overgrown red raccoons more than pandas, but apparently they are in some way related.

... but...this saying will keep popping up..."It was an experience". This sentence "It was/is an experience" is the most important thing to keep in mind when visiting a country such as China. It is extremely difficult, at times, to get into this mindset when you are feeling homesick, frustrated, alone, isolated and alien. However, it gets easier, and the second I got into thinking of it this way, the easier things became. When we finally arrived in Chengdu, it ...

... buildings (panda museum, etc) and we felt fortunate that we could spend our time how we wanted to. We made our way to the entrance and after waiting for about five minutes we were back on an air-conditioned bus back to our hostel. By the time we got back, the sun was high in the sky, which is quite unusual for Chengdu during this time of the year. It was also very hot and humid, so we went back to the bamboo garden for some cold beer and delicious Sichuan ...

... arrived at 8am, which is when the park opens. The pandas' natural environment rarely goes above 25 degrees so the pandas are outside in the cool morning but go into their air conditioned 'cells' at about 10am. Their outside enclosures are quite big and have loads of wooden structures and trees to climb and play on, bamboo to gnaw on and a pond and stream to play in. The first stop was the baby pandas - eight 1-year-olds and five 2-year-olds. Watching them wrestling ...

... not give us the right to ignore our own weaknesses while pointing fingers at other countries. Map in hand and about four hours of daylight to spare, we got bold and decided to take a circular route back to Chengdu. And...... we took a wrong turn. We were going in the right direction, but the road we chose turned into a pothole-riddled muddy mess. We lost an hour or two to bad roads, then took a detour up a mountain as the sun was ...

I needed a layover city on the way to Wogs and my flight home, so I picked Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan (Szechuan) province because I had heard the city was tourist-friendly and for the pepper-packed reputation of the food. It did not disappoint. I flew the 700-odd kilometers because bus travel would have taken 2 days one way, and four days over 15,000 foot Himalayan passes the other. I got into the hostel in the early afternoon. Chengdu is big ...