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Chengdu: My Favorite Place

Chengdu, China. This summer, I had the opportunity to visit China through one of OU's Journey programs. I took three semesters of Mandarin so I figured I should visit somewhere I could actually utilize what I had studied. We visited five cities throughout the trip, including Chengdu. Chengdu is known as the city of pandas; it is home to the world's most famous giant panda research base. It's a common joke in China that the people of Chengdu are like pandas because their lifestyles are more laid-back and relaxed than the daily pace in typical megacities.


(Personal photo of two panda cubs at the Chengdu Research Base of 
Giant Panda Breeding; photo from June 2019)
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  1. Laura GibbsAugust 22, 2019 at 3:52 PM

    Wow, Rachel, your own picture of the panda cubs: that is so cool! And how great that you have been to China! Maybe you want to do a China-based project for this class; I've got a "shelf" of books from China at the Freebookapalooza ... so many great stories in those pages, just waiting for readers. :-)

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