1072. China - # 5 - Pandas at the zoo, a real live Chinese wedding, and the Summer Palace!
After breakfast we left the cruise ship at Chongqing, the largest city in China with 32 million people. We first went to the zoo, where they had live panda bears! Our guide said there are around 300 panda bears in the wild in the nearby mountains. On the way to the zoo, we saw many skyline high rises! This was a cute statue, a baby monkey whispering to the mom! These large statues were at the entrance to the zoo. We first saw what is called a "Red panda". It quite resembles a raccoon, but it otherwise isn't very much like them . It was about the size of a raccoon, however. Then we saw the big panda bears! This one was around 4 to 5 feet from tip of it's nose to the tail. He was actually trying to climb into that window. We figured, as it was morning, that he was looking for breakfast! This was the large area in which the pandas live. This was another large panda in a different area.