Leshan and Chengdu

After a short flight to Chengdu, we spent our first day visiting the largest Buddha statue in the city of Leshan (about 2.5 hours outside of Chengdu). Its pretty impressive standing at 71m high, incredible how they carved this out of the sandstone mountain.

And the next day, one of my highlights of China was visiting the Panda reserve. With more than 50 pandas, we spent 3 hours wandering around the reserve. I was very impressed with how well they are looked after here. We could get really close to them too, luckily due to the time of the year (being colder now) the pandas were a lot more active than usual. Very cute!