Day 1 in Beijing. We decided to start with something extra important for Vincent to set up his spirit high up for next few days. Since we started talking about moving to Shanghai, he was very excited about Panda Bear and it became quite a motivation for him to come here. He wanted to see Panda Bear. We wanted to do it too, so we took of for Beijing ZOO.
In general, idea of zoo isn't really the best by it self, but you get your hopes high when you finally decided to go there.You want to get amazed by the nature, take few interesting photos and in a way relax...
But in Beijing ZOO you get three times NO...
1. You do not get amazed by nature, because the animals do not live a fancy life there...
There was not a single animal that had a normal living conditions.
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u could watch pandas from behind the glass window. One of them was sitting at the gate as it wanted to escape. The other one looked like she was a very old or very sick... The biggest pleasure from Panda area was to look at the souvenirs...
u could watch pandas from behind the glass window. One of them was sitting at the gate as it wanted to escape. The other one looked like she was a very old or very sick... The biggest pleasure from Panda area was to look at the souvenirs...Wolves were the saddest view... Four of them were 'exposed' in sort of glass cage in size of 5x5m with ONLY sand. Not a single leaf or bush. They were digging holes in the ground trying to hide. Their fur was dirty and matt. Some of them were injured. When I saw them I immediately thought about Nordens Ark in Sweden and the wolves living there on the big forrest areal representing truly wonderful species.
A tiger was sleeping in the shadow as it was around noon and very hot and steamy. People were throwing water plastic bottles to force him to move...
Bats were constantly photographed with a flash as people tried to see them. They also tried spitting on the glass counting on their reaction...
2. I didn't take many photos, because it turned out to be the least inspirational place I have been to.
Well, it was very dirty, a lot of garbage on the ground and almost not a single one garbage bin... There are some works being done (I hope improving anything) so we could hear a lot of noises coming from saws and drills...
And as if it wasn't enough there is a huge highway going just above...
3. Relax - forget about it!
So many people... Everywhere... Shouting (their way of being)...
If you plan on coming to Beijing, I recommend you to focus on historical places and skip the zoo...
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