Chengdu and the giant panda are inextricably entangled. You can’t escape the black and white creatures: on traffic islands; peering at you from a thousand different items in panda-themed shops; peeking at you from desserts, sweets, drinks, ice-cream and baos; and clambering over giant LED screens in shopping malls, on banners, sculptures, paintings and cartoons. The black-eyed, black-eared rotund creature that awakens the daddy-mummy instinct in the nerdiest to the most withdrawn is everywhere.
Explore the ancient and storied city of Chengdu, Sichuan province’s capital
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