Big panda at Bifengxia
Volunteers wash toddlers at Bifengxia
Rebel with a carrot
Jinli Street, Chengdu
Today was the day many of us had been waiting for - Pandas! We drove for about 2 hours out of Chengdu into the mountains, and entered Bifeng Gorge Panda Preserve, where several of the pandas from the Wolong Preserve had been moved after the May, 2008 earthquake. It is a wild area, with the panda habitations quite large and spread out over the preserve. Of course there were vendors hawking all manner of panda goods. We spent about 3 hours looking at the pandas, had lunch, then headed back to the city in a drizzle. By the time we'd returned to Chengdu, the drizzle had stopped, and we went to stroll along Jinli street, a shopper's paradise in a newly restored area of the city. Because it was Saturday it was very crowded. Off tomorrow to Lijiang!
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