Chengdu
Been out seeing some of the sights of Chengdu with the girl I met on the way here. Not that much going on, the new “old town” areas packed with Chinese, nice enough but would be nicer if they didn’t insist on knocking everything “old” down and replacing it with concrete blocks aka 1950’s style UK. In fact better if they started knocking some of the newer stuff down. Chengdu also holds its own on the pollution front, the poor auto focus system has a hard time seeing thru the smog !!
This morning went to the Panda breeding center, got there early so still quiet and some great photos. Surprised how many pandas there were. The adults did a top job doing panda poses, the cubs obviously had had a hard Friday night and slept, the babies wonderful but no pics allowed. The biggest surprise was the red pandas which I have never even heard of and they say there only 5000 left in the wild. When I was walking the hills in Tagong I came up close to one and never even bothered to get my camera out, didn’t have the faintest idea what it was, being brown and furry and left it in peace ( luckily ) as its an endangered species.
Hopefully by Monday the holiday crowds will have gone back to work and can move out, weather a bit grim at the moment, admittedly hard to really know given the smog – and this girl said to me England is polluted, lets put this into perspective. Then again an English student in Ganzi first asked me about the Darwin theory, then the Big Bang, I had to put her straight and told her to start learning about football if she wants to relate to English people !
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