Sofitel Wanda Chengdu
No.15 Binjiang Middle Road Chengdu, Sichuan, 610016, China
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Panda-land - here we come! :)
Today we left the hectic life in Shanghai for the more quiet side of China - Sichuan. And what a better place to do it other than in Sichuan's capital - Chengdu?
Well, the morning started with a rather hurried rush to the airport - we ended up taking the Maglev train (431 km/h), which was cool, yet less impressive than before.
Check in was …
Pandas are REALLY amazingly cute! :)
So yeah, this morning, we took a crazy taxi ride to the giant panda breeding site to see Tao-Tao and his giant panda brothers and sisters.
Here's the thing - pandas are lazy. VERY lazy. They sleep most of the day, scratch themselves occasionally and eat when they are fed. They also don't like hot weather too much.
Today was 28 degrees in …
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Pandas and chicken feet
The overnight train from Xi'an was as exciting as ever ... NOT. The weirdest thing we witnessed was a bag of chicken feet being passed around like a bag of sweets and watching a dozen Chinese sitting there with chicken claws hanging over their bottom lips as they sucked the life out of them ... NICE!
We arrive in Chengdu well before any sparrows had ******, so we walked to the hostel (which Donna loved) as we had nothing better to do at 5am. ...
More click clack
More stunning scenery to stare through the window at until late faded.
Arrived bleary eyed at 5:20am. Taxi to hostel and joy of joys, our room was ready owing to the No show the revious day. The train journey was ok but not conducive to a good nights sleep which us oldies need. Now refreshed and planning the next few ...



