Xiong Mao - Pandas

Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding

At first, you see them in cages. It is a sad sight, but later you find out that the pandas are not comfortable in the hot and humid weather. So they put them in these cages and keep them nice and cool. The research center is beautiful. It includes a lake, areas where the red pandas play, and bamboo growing all around. After visiting the pandas, the group and I went to the downtown area and our Laoshi (teacher) recommended that we go to a bookstore/coffee/tea bar where we all hung out and played the piano. Later on we ended up eating some yummy dim sum and walking around the city. As always, we all ended with our weekend ritual: pi jio.