Chengdu – the home of pandas
Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987 , started with 6 pandas that were rescued from the wild, overall with 244 births, 10 permanent residents and home to the famous HuaHua; so many accounts on TikTok for that name, we must have been the only visitors who came to see the other pandas. As one […]
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Xi’an
Xi’an, or eternal peace, was China’s capital during several dynasties. It surprised us with its ancient and remarkably well preserved history. The most famous attraction in Xian is the Terra-cotta Soldiers, discovered in 1974. The soldiers, representing Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s imperial guards, are located 1500 meters from his tomb. Each has a unique face, […]
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The Great Wall of China
The wall as we know it was continuously built over 1,700 years. It began in the 3rd century BC, before the Punic wars… we were super lucky, I don’t think we saw more than 20 people the entire day. The Beijing crowds usually go to Mutianyu, Sabine arranged for us to go Jinshanling section, parts […]
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Beijing
we finally made it to China! we bought our first tickets in nov 2020 for march 21… here we try again, after a super fast and easy visa process, now even easier for Swiss, we managed 3 years later to make it Beijing is home to 21m people and was founded in 1045BC. the history […]
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Malapascua
6 years later we’re back in our most preferred philippino diving location
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San Gerardo de Dota
returning to Trogon lodge in San Gerardo de Dota did not disappoint, twice we went to search for the quetzal, twice we saw it. last day we even saw three males. but none were posing as the one four years ago…
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