The Pandas

We did a morning tour of the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Center in our attempt to see the elusive Panda. It's almost impossible to see them in the wild and so we thought maybe we'll be lucky if we see one or two of them here.

We show up at 8:30 am and the driver who took us there was walking us around the compound when we first come across our first Panda! The morning is feeding time so this one was pretty much sitting on his butt chowing down on the Bamboo strewn about him. So cute. Lot's of pictures and the driver moves us on to another area...


Needless to say, our worries about being able to see Pandas was unfounded. Every different area we came to there were either one, two or three of them, sitting, sleeping, playing or eating! All different ages were seen too! They are the funniest little buggers you'll ever see. So playful and lazy. Makes you just want to go up to them and give them a noogie or something!

We could have had pictures taken right beside them but that was another 400 Yuan each so we decided not to! I really would have noogied him I swear!

One of the five mascots for the Beijing 2008 Olympics is actually a Panda called Jingjing. Very cute.