{"id":23984,"date":"2011-08-16T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=23984"},"modified":"2011-08-16T01:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:47:10","slug":"pandas-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/pandas-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Pandas Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new favorite animal, the Panda.<\/p>\n<p>When planning our China trip, Kristy and I decided that seeing a Panda was a must. So we went to the largest Giant Panda Base in the world: <strong>The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/X8Wc00FiJn8<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baby Pandas Playing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816675760\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Baby Pandas Playing\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4816675760_3d0e132a3c.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baby Pandas! These were 6 months old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Soo cute!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816051089\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soo cute!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4816051089_61ff100006.jpg\" width=\"559\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peeka-boo!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Chilling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816054245\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chilling\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4117\/4816054245_560a7b4880.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nom Noms<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Silly Pandas!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816057563\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Silly Pandas!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4120\/4816057563_402cfc38fa.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Worker cleaning out the panda cage. Silly pandas, all they wanna do is play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Climbing Panada Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816054943\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Climbing Panada Time\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4139\/4816054943_d6d977f18a.jpg\" width=\"561\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Chengdu was never planned to be a highlight of our China Trip, we thought the usual: The Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors, would take those honors. But those pandas, I have never seen a more adorable creature in my life! Yes, cuter than cats!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nadine Panda Holding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816679630\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nadine Panda Holding\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4100\/4816679630_54113bd452.jpg\" width=\"408\" height=\"544\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lucky me, I even got the opportunity to hold a baby panda! Now opportunity might have been a strech, it was more like I paid 1000 CNY (approx~$150 USD) to hold it for 20 seconds. Was it a complete rip off? Yes. But, the money is technically a donation towards the panda base so I didn&#8217;t feel to bad about it. And, the baby panda&#8217;s furr felt like a soft fluffy pillow.<\/p>\n<h2>Firefoxs aka Red Pandas<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"FireFox Waiting for Food!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816048831\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FireFox Waiting for Food!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4076\/4816048831_9ff791f1c8.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, a web browser was named after you .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Red Panada:FireFox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816047267\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red Panada:FireFox\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4816047267_9572e47d91.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow just look at how high they can climb!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Chengdu<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Chengdu China Shopping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/4816685636\/\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chengdu China Shopping\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4074\/4816685636_2ce16bc4dd.jpg\" width=\"559\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shopping district in downtown Chengdu, for some last minute souvenirs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alright guys, this post ends our China trip, AND my China post recap. I hope you have enjoyed revisiting my China vlogs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Peace out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experience the largest Giant Panda Base in the world! <b><i>Chengdu, China<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[63,234,449,604,624,631,728,810,856,1160,1161,1359,2035,2069,2118,2873,3020],"class_list":["post-23984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-travel","tag-63","tag-attractions","tag-breading","tag-charityfundraisers","tag-chengdu","tag-china","tag-cool-things","tag-travel","tag-donations","tag-giant-panda-research-base","tag-giant-pandas","tag-holding-a-panda","tag-opinons","tag-pandas","tag-photos","tag-travel-videos","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}