Tuesday, 23rd April, 2013.
The Great Wall and pandas – two highlights in one day!
The Běijīng Zoo is over a hundred years old, and until the 1950s was called something rather romantic like “The Garden of a Thousand Animals”. Or it might have been ten thousand.
The zoo is home to many rare animals, including this very pretty red-crested ibis, native to China.
It is also, of course, home to the panda, of which I took about a thousand pictures. Here are a few of them:
As we were leaving the zoo, there was a great crowd of people around the enclosure of the peacock, who was strutting about proudly showing off his beautiful tail feathers. I learned later that the Chinese consider it very lucky to see a peacock showing its feathers – that’s why so many of the people were holding their children up for a good view.
As for me, I was feeling so lucky to have seen the pandas – and everything else we have seen on this wonderful trip.
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