Next stop, the province of Sichuan, famed for its spicey food. Our main destination is Jiuzhaigou nature reserve, but we've stopped over in the city of Chengdu for a couple of days.
One could easily spend three weeks in Chengdu, using it as a base for visits to Three Gorges, Emei Shan, Songpan, Tibet and Jiuzhaigou. With our limited time, we spent the first day strolling around the delightful hutongs around Jin Li and our hostel and sipping jasmin tea next to the lake in renmin park while the locals practised their (sometimes glass shattering) opera over a tannoy.
No visit to Chengdu is complete without a trip to the panda reserve, which we duly oblidged the following day. Panda's are useless sods, being poor at mating, negligent parents, fussy eaters, fat, lazy and slothlike...the list is endless. Their extinction would have been guaranteed were it not for one saving grace that the theory of darwinism could never have accounted for...
PANDA'S ARE CUTE!!! I mean REALLY cute!!! Just look at the pics! AWWWWWW!!!
And thus the world aids the plight of the panda's while other, less attractive species die out.
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