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Chong Qing and Pandas!

4/17/2016

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Our local guide, Windy met us on the ship in Chong Qing (pronounced Chongchin) where we had to walk up many steps from the ship. "Stick men", as they are called, men carrying our luggage over their shoulders with ropes tied on a pole, had to walk up those same steps.

Windy took us to the Chong Qing zoo where we got to see the pandas!  There were 9 pandas in residence, including YaYa and LingLing and a 7 month old baby panda.  Above you'll see YaYa (mother) and the baby and below is LingLing, the father.  We learned that they are all kept separate because they don't really like each other. If a mother panda has two cubs, she will bond with one and either reject or kill the other. They've had to show "panda-porn" movies to get the male and female to mate.

There were two groups of people doing Tai Chi in the park.   I loved their silk pajamas!  I think I'll have to get some.

Afterwards, we had lunch in a 5th floor garden restaurant in Chong Qing; very spicy food!  This Minnesota girl, who is used to salt and pepper as spices, found that if I bit into one of the pepper seeds, my mouth was on fire!

 We checked in at the airport around 1:00 for our 2:05 flight to Xian.
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