Yesterday, the team traveled a couple of hours outside of Chengdu to visit Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya'an . During the earthquake in 2008, roads to Wolong Natural Reserve were destroyed and some pandas were transferred here. The base is the biggest captive giant panda institution in the world. The Giant Panda is an endangered species. It is native to and lives mostly in Sichuan Province. China has a little more than 200 pandas living in captivity and about 2-3,000 are estimated to be living in the wild.
We saw adult, child and baby pandas. Each have names like Hope, Star or Qing Qing. Their eating habits are impressive. Entire apples or bamboo stalks disappear in a second. Napping is also a popular pastime for the panda. This picture shows fun playground activity at 'Panda Kindergarten'. I believe this was a group hug. It just doesn't get more adorable than this.
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Awwww, pandas. How sweet! I remember climbing down into the panda pit at th4e Beijing Zoo where they had an elderly panda sitting quietly eating apples. We were allowed to take pictures with im and to pet him. It was one of the times when the afterthoughts of what we did were scary. But it was certainly fun at the time! Love you! Mom
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