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Hele Hotel Chengdu

No.1 Jianghan Road, Qingyang District Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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Panda's and Hotpot

A travel blog entry by burgessdempsey

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... of spicy and non spicy liquid on top. The group around the table then dipped a variety of meats, fish, vegetables and mushrooms intotye boiling liquids to cook.

Ting Ting still didn't understand that this didn't work for vegetarians, as the vegetables were being cooked in what was essentially a meat based stock. Needless to say, Nicola went without! Total cost with beer, £4.50!

Weather: 17. After a drizzly start a dry and nearly sunny ...

Mid-Autumn Festival

A travel blog entry by jasper.lawson

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... Lanterns (孔明燈) or Sky Lanterns (see pictures). Basically they are made of coloured rice paper and wire, and are fuelled by fire starters. Once lit the lanterns rise into the sky like hot air balloons. We bought two between us, and after borrowing a lighter from a friendly family, we set our lantern and our wishes off into the night. The lanterns are actually pretty big, so it took a little while for them to rise and fly. Ours actually failed the first ...

OK- so the airport is a piece of cake compared to

A travel blog entry by hoben360

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... a Chinese airport is a piece of cake compared to using a "squatie" when you have to GO GO GO...if you know what I mean. Don't feel too sorry for me- Chris got it on video :)

Off to the Panda Reserve tomorrow- a full day in Chengdu leaving at 8am and not returning back to any hotel until arriving at our Guilin hotel around midnight. The kids are SO excited about the pandas- apparently you can get right up to them and there I think 75 at the reserve. FUN!!!



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Kung fu(?) Panda

A travel blog entry by hjalmar

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Som jeg engang tilbake i tid lovet her på bloggen, så ville det om mulig bli flere innlegg med tittel stjålet fra en animasjonsfilm. KFP 2 går i disse dager på kino, i hvertfall her i Kina, men jeg har dessverre ikke giddet å få meg til å betale for å se den. I stedet har jeg brukt hardt oppsparte midler på å ta originalen (selve dyret, ikke den første filmen) i nærmere øyesyn. Mine mangfoldige ganger nevnte sterke følelser for innhold i kronologisk rekkefølge får også denne gangen ...

Chengdu the City of Pandas

A travel blog entry by moniandjason

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... It was a really enjoyable experience watching these cute and cuddly giant pandas and some of the youngsters. Because their diet consists primarily of bamboo, they need to consume a ton of it (not literally) every day for up to 16 hours. We also saw red pandas which are small and resemble a cross between a racoon and a cat. Sounds a bit strange but they were also very cute.

The only other real place for us to visit in Chengdu was the Jinli Street ...