youll have to excuse the repeat of pictures on here, im using stas as it takes so long to upload my own! Soooo, today we met at 8am on our way to the panda reserve!!! (apparently woolong was actually destroyed in the earthquake and all the pandas have been moved, some to here and other places) We first walked in and saw 4 adult pandas eating bamboo, very cute, but the guide had tols us the babies were round the corner so i had to move on quickly!! There was a wo...

so we had our first day in chengdu!! It seems to be a really nice plce, we arrived after our 17 hour journey from xi'an whcih was quite good. Me, tony, dave and sarah played cards and looked at all the hills and waterfalls it was beautiful scenery to be on a train through. In the evening on the train we played poker and taught xin to play, although he was too good we feel he may have fibbed about not knowing how to play!! At 6.30am we checked in to the hoteland a...