Happy panda experience

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I am Amit Mehta from Nepal, and am studying medicine in China at the Three Gorges University in Yichang, Hubei province.

I love travel and my studies and whenever I get some free time, I like to travel to new places to see their cultural heritage.

This past October when we had a 5-day holiday for China’s National Day my friends asked me to go to Wuhan, in Hubei province with them but I suggested that we go to a better place and I chose Chongqing.

So, without delay we left for Chongqing. When we looked around the city we found it totally different from the place where we are studying and that the food was spicy but delicious and we enjoyed it a lot because we also love spicy food.

On the third day, while we were having dinner were planning how to get back to Yichang, at that moment I told my friends that since we were in Cnongqing, why not travel to Chengdu because it was not that far away. So, we followed our hearts and took first train to Chengdu the next morning.

We didn't have much time to spend in Chengdu so we went directly to see the pandas, which was my biggest achievement so far in China. I saw some pandas playing together and some eating bamboo, and the scene brought tears to my eyes out of happiness. I sat down for a while to watch them playing and kept taking pictures and video clips for hours and saw some people who were playing with the pandas.

We were really sad when finding it was almost 4:00 pm and we had classes the next day so we decided to head back to Yichang.

Sitting there in the train I was looking over the pictures I'd taken in Chengdu. Now, if I feel lonely sometimes just watch the video clips and pictures of pandas and a smile suddenly comes to my face and reminds me to be happy. It also reminds me of my father who always tells me,"whatever you have, be happy in it".

The author is from Nepal and is currently studying medicine at the Three Gorges University in Yichang, Hubei province.

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