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Adventures in Asia Welcome to our week long series of our Adventures through Asia. Each day we will add another link here to a post for our time in China where we were unable to blog due to the firewall they have in place. We will finally finish off this series by posting about Singapore which is our location for the duration of the time that we are writing this series. I hope that you will enjoy it. please click a link below to see a new post. 1. Hong Kong Chinese Junk ship at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong 2. Zhangjiajie A misty morning in Zhangjiajie 3. Chengdu Red Panda in Chengdu Panda Research Base 4. Xi'an Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army 5. Dongcheng, Beijing The Temple of Heaven 6. Chaoyang, Beijing Ritan Park 7. Singapore Great Trees at night from Garden By The Bay In case your interested:  We did have further adventures in Asia than we write about in this short series. We also went to Japan, which is in Asia b...

Chengdu, Sichuan Panda monium  Olivia came dressed as a panda Our next few days were to be spent in Chengdu. Chengdu is a massive city in the Sichuan province of China. Sichuan is located towards the east of the country in the bottom left corner near to Tibet. Our first day was just us arriving, we had a little walk along the river towards our accommodation. The city was much less busy than Hong Kong was but there was still definitely a buzz to the place. Along the banks of the Funan river it is possible to see many white crane like birds. Wenshu Temple Gate Our next day was incredibly exciting, we did the terrible thing of getting up really early where we got on the metro and travelled across the city to a place called Panda avenue. From here we got onto a shuttle bus which took us all the way to the Panda Research facility. Red Panda's  In this facility are the magnificent Giant Panda, which I felt I could really relate to. They like to eat an...