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Day 10 - Chengdu

27th September 2025

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Travel & People's Park

成都市

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Day 1 - London to Amsterdam Day 2 - Beijing Arrival Day 3 - Beijing - Summer Palace
Day 4 - Beijing - Temple of Heaven Day 5 - Great Wall of China Day 6 - Forbidden City
Day 7 - to Xi'an Day 8 - Terracotta Army Day 9 - Around Xi'an
Day 10 - to Chengdu & People's Park Day 11 - Panda Breeding Centre Day 12 - to Shanghai & Boat
Day 13 - Shanghai Day 14 - to Home  



Last view from the roon in Xi'an...

 
Room


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Cat

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Who knew Apple did drain covers...

Drain

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Xi'an Train Station; it was enormous, immaculate and had over 100 massage chairs...
 
Xi'an station



It also had lots of chicken feet flavours...

Chicken


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First hints of pandas...
 
Pandas


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Every city we passed had swathes of tower blocks...

Buildings

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China has a policy of greening bridges and roads...

Wild

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Hotel lobby in Chengdu...

Hotel lobby 1

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Hotel lobby 2

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Hotel lobby 3


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This wasn't the first hotel we stayed in that had condoms in the room...
 
Condoms


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Construction site sign...

Construction

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Chengdu People's Park, one of the unexpected but really enjoyable parts of the trip for me
 
Water Caligraphy...

Water Caligraphy



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People came to sing and dance...

Singer 1

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A Chinese Tony Hadley...

Singer 2


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My favourites were...
 
Troupe 1


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Troupe 2

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Troupe 3
 
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CVs often written by parents of adults who had yet to find a spouse...

CVs

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Dancing 1

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Dancing 2

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This poor lady encountered my left feet...

Dancing 3


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Dancing 4


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Statue 1

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Statue 2



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Statue 3

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Panda 2


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Sign


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Shop

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Cheese Latte
 
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Day 1 - London to Amsterdam Day 2 - Beijing Arrival Day 3 - Beijing - Summer Palace
Day 4 - Beijing - Temple of Heaven Day 5 - Great Wall of China Day 6 - Forbidden City
Day 7 - to Xi'an Day 8 - Terracotta Army Day 9 - Around Xi'an
Day 10 - to Chengdu & People's Park Day 11 - Panda Breeding Centre Day 12 - to Shanghai & Boat
Day 13 - Shanghai Day 14 - to Home