Wednesday 17 October 2012

BEIJING: Watching The Panda

Beijing is generally colder and more windy than Shanghai. We could hardly see the sun and the air seemed very polluted. 
Our next destination was the Beijing zoo with its main attraction, the panda. 


The zoo, the same as all the other monuments is very big and you can very easily get lost. We had to pass through the tigers, monkeys, giraffes, crocodiles, snakes until we finally got to the panda. 








These little chicks have been put in a cage with a snake. You could tell that they are very scared of what will happen to them.


There were a few of them, either being lazy and lying on some wood or eating bamboo, but all looking very very cute so that you would like to get into the cage and start cuddling them. The panda is definitely the star in Beijing and you can buy anywhere a souvenir of a panda.


Chinese seem to like monkeys as most of them stood in front of monkey cages, feeding them, even though the signs said “please do not feed the animals”.


It almost appeared like an entertaining event, watching the monkeys catching the food and getting funny noises from them.

When you walk around the streets of Beijing, you notice that Chinese have dogs as pets in this city.
I have not seen as many in Shanghai as in Beijing and mostly they are small and fluffy. Please do not ask me if they feed them for years to then eat them one day!

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