Welcome to The Chengdu Panda Breeding & Research Center

Adult panda chewing away on some bamboo ~ what a great life!

It's the baby pandas that every tourist wants to see ~ in fact you queue up to see these little guys through as glass window, and hardly have anytime to snap a photo before your moved on!

Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding from Mark Carnaby on Vimeo.

These two buddies enjoying meal time, you have to get here for the opening of the centre to catch the pandas doing stuff ~ most of the day they just lie around letting all that bamboo go down

Be like Bamboo, flexable but never break! ~ I do like this stuff!!

Local street cleaner in Chengdu having a food break

Chinese brushes stall in Jinli ~ I wish I had brought one of these come to think of it!

I'm not sure what this is ~ some kind of drink with a plum in it? made a nice shot though

Walking around the Jinli Pedestrian Street

I saw this at a stall and thought it would make a great picture, turned around and noticed a bunch of Chinese tourists snapping away ~ glad to be of some inspirational for them!

Badminton being played in the People's Park

Now this was unusual, apart from karaoke blaring out over the tannoys and lots of middle aged folk dancing away, they actually had a public catwalk going on with a red carpet to boot! all in the People's Park

Weekends at People's Park, Chengdu from Mark Carnaby on Vimeo.

The Sichuan Science and Technology Museum, notice the giant Mao statue in front of it

'And just what to you think your looking at...'

An old school monument with a backdrop of modern times, this is part of Tianfu Square in Chengdu

Took this one inside the most modern shopping centres in Chengdu ~ it even had an ice rink inside...

They thought of everything in this place!

Just outside all the modern shopping centres and buildings theres still reminders of how this place was before it went into redevelopment mode

Really like this shot, sums up Chengdu for me ~ fast food & the overall happy-go-lucky people of this great Chinese city!

Lanterns lit up at night outside the ShuFeng YaYun theatre

China 2014: Part Eight of Eleven

The Chinese Adventure: Chengdu – Part Two

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One of my other reasons for including Chengdu on my trip (apart from the Giant Buddha) was to visit the Chengdu Panda Breeding & Research Center, organising a trip with the hotel I got there early one morning to catch the pandas meal times, I still remember seeing the very first one amongst all the bamboo trees sitting there like a baby and chewing away on their favourite pastime, just like the one in the photo, brilliant. The rest of my time in Chengdu I spent wandering around the big city and seeing what interesting stuff I could find, I noticed the ‘new found wealth’ China creeping in with old buildings being knocked down and modern ones being put up…

More photos in my blog post I made whilst travelling in China