first thing's first: chow time... at green ram temple in chengdu. impressive use of chopsticks, helen... but are you eating the
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oh right, here's the temple.
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helen is more interesting/photoworthy than the temple to these schoolkids...for the next 10 minutes they line up to take picture
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retirees at the cafe
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i think it's the chinese equiv of my parents' 4-hr visit to starbucks everyday in the u.s.
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as promised, mao. i lied tho. not much mao in this album. much panda.
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loading up on the essentials: water, chocolate, towels and chips.
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on the way to wolong, we encounter a man hanging about fixing the telephone (at least i think so..i hope it's not the electricit
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and soon thereafter arrive in wolong, where the pandas are also hanging around in trees... napping
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only the pandas that were being prepped for breeding were kept in cages. otherwise the environment seemed quite nice.
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plenty of room to play. no need to, uh, bite.
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get your own tree, buddy.
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quite limber for animals that look like a buncha clowns.
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for an addtl "donation" you can get your picture taken w/a panda
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baby pandas everywhere! these were all about 6 months old. (click on the picture to see all the pandas you're missing out on b/c
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this is the life: eat, sleep, play.
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the pandas taiwan rejected.
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they had their own enclosure.
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one of the two pandas due to come to hong kong soon in honor of the 10-yr anniversary of hk's handover
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sorry buddy, ocean park does not compare.
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i am quite clearly obsessed w/pandas.
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obsessed. obsessed. obsessed.
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some bizarre statue in wolong town. it snowed overnight on the mtn tops.. but i forgot to take a picture
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the non-touristy part of wolong town.
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i.e. not where we stayed.
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the official entrance (taken as we are leaving)
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the road was under construction so they only opened it to traffic for 4 hrs a day. we all had a lot of time to pace around by th
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next off: qing cheng shan (mtn) where conveniently one can climb the mountain w/very little effort.
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the cable cars as the mist descends
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fresh air and tons of trees! how novel!
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making it up to the white cloud temple tho required a bit of hiking, some buddhas in the stone on the way up.
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view from the hotel we stayed at that nite
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helen enjoying a cup of hot tea and the, uh, view.
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it's FREEZING cold as there is no heat in our room, but oddly, about 50 tv channels.
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hiking around the next day
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helen envisions her retirement
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the 5 dragons path was filled w/bridges and pagodas along the route
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a different spot, really!
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these bridges used to be all wood, but now are made out of reinforced concrete.
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again another picture of the entrance taken upon leaving a location. our driver was funny like that.
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