CHINA'S PANDA PARADISE | Chengdu Is A MUST VISIT Destination!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- If you're traveling to China, DO NOT make the mistake of skipping Chengdu! After spending just 3 days here, I knew I should have booked for longer because there is so much to do in this lovely city. Of course most people visit for the world famous Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Center (highly recommend, obviously), but the city itself is very tourist friendly with beautiful parks, great shopping centers and also is a foodie paradise! I was kindly invited by the Sichuan International Communications Center to tour the city and create some content, so if you would like more tourist info from them, check out their website and RUclips channel down below:
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My favourite city! you will have a lot of fun in Chengdu! It is very different from Chongqing, Chengdu is more laid back. Food may fit your taste since it is not that spicy. There are a lot of of things to explore, you will like it!
Really enjoyed my time here :)
@@AlinaMcleodRemember to go check out the TaiKooLi right behind the IFS, that's the cool place to see and to be seen.
@@AlinaMcleodyou probably should book a trip to rural chengdu( 4-6 hours west of chengdu) if u hv extra time. its natural habitat of great panda. and the natural scenes there ( bipenggou, hailuogou, mt. siguniang) look like switzerland....🤠🤠🤠
chengdu is the city where I studying,it’s nice place not only for young man like students or staff but also elderly ,they have time and resources to enjoy their lives.there is a 96km bike-road around chengdu,very nice❤
Better and better. You are becoming THE ambassador. Both Canada and China like you apparently.
For Panda visits, early in the day is better since these❤ cute cubs tend to be active in the morning and like to sleep a lot in the daytime later.
My mini schnauzer rescue is from Chengdu. She's my little panda :)
keep up the good work
cute panda
欢迎你到重庆，重庆会给你不一样体验！
❤❤❤
I'm a simple man, I see Pandas in a video I click like 🐼 ❤ #neversaynotopanda
Best way to be 😁
sorry, i'm simple man too, I see a beautiful woman! ha.............
美丽的女士，感谢您拍摄我的国家并展示给世界，希望您在我的国家继续愉快的旅行。
There are a lot interesting places nearby Chengdu, one of them is called Du-Jiang-Yan, the world class Hydraulic engineering project developed 2500 years ago and it is still being used. Highly recommend to visit.
I visited many years ago. Highly recommended for both the area's beauty and the history of an amazing ancient engineering feat.
Hi Alina ! Panda 🐼 Bears are absolutely 💯 awesome ! They are special creatures indeed.
They sure are!
就这大粉衣服，一般人hold不住。。。呵呵
Watching your vlogs of your trip to China has been one of my regular daily activities. Thanks so much for your efforts and time spent in making these videos. This is so more fun than listening and watching the political charged and bias disinformation about China from mainstream media here in the U.S.
My pleasure 😊
Is that why you don't want to live in China 🇨🇳?
@@AhmetTekin101China is not an immigration country, so it is difficult for foreigners to obtain a five-star card (long-term residence permit). However, tourist visas are becoming more and more open.
穿漢服就像唐朝美女，真漂亮praise beautiful
我想楊貴妃應該就是這樣，也難怪皇帝整天祇想好她膩在一起😂😂😂😂
For most of the Chinese cities you've visited, you said "I am definitely gonna be back!" Glad that you are having a great trip!
I certainly am 😊
Another paradise worth checking out in spring is the One Hundred Mile Azalea Forest, also known as the Baili Dujuan Scenic Area, in southwest China's Guizhou Province, is the largest, most diverse and best-preserved primitive azalea forest in the world. Over a million tourists flock to the scenic area each spring to see the riot of color.
The panda alone is already worth visiting in Chengdu, but Chengdu itself has way many places to visit and things to do which make it a must place to visit in China. And Chongqing too since they are close together.
Absolutely!
💖Thank You!!! Wonderful vlogs about the most beautiful country ,culture, people, nature in China🌺🌿 I am so inspired to visit 💕 I LOVE CHINA 😍
My beutiful Panda city! Chengdu was my home for 11 years and everytime i watch videos about Chengdu all I can do is cry! Miss Chengdu so much !! I am back in Canada now and my dream is to vistit Chengdu 1 more time!!!!!
You absolutely should!
I'm born & raised in canada but now happily live in Chinese Singapore & Malaysia (and HK before) with my wife here. We wanna visit Chengdu, Sichuan, Shangri-La
Do not come back chengdu. stay in canada there always.
@@liuminggee2573 Why? Most people in canada are unhappy and struggling to afford even enough (bad) food to eat now. Living in a slum and no chance to ever have their own home, ever. It'd bad and also cold.
@@victormendez8811 这是个机器人，连句中国话都不会说，他只会四处留下相同的评论，然后不会回复任何内容
Alina, Your enthusiasm and shear joy of seeing the Pandas is truly infectious! You looked stunning in the traditional outfit. Did you do the photoshoot? Have you replaced your drone? Chengdu is definitely on my bucket list!! Thanks for the great content!!
Thank you so much! I’ll be getting a new drone when I’m back in Canada 🙂
@@AlinaMcleod Isn't China the place to get drones? Cheaper and larger range, I guess?
Awesome video 📷❤👌.
都江堰，青城山，峨眉山，九寨沟，黄龙，贡嘎雪山，稻城亚丁，四姑娘山，毕棚沟，卧龙大熊猫栖息地，there are lots of interesting places in sichuan，welcome back again!
I was in Chengdu 5 years ago - it is great to see Pandas and how they take good care of them - while it was hot outside for us, Pandas had air conditioned enclosures
Even as a vegetarian, I enjoyed the Sichuan cuisine. A friend of ours from Chicago area brought traditional clothes for her 3 daughters - she asked my daughter, niece and even tour guide (all in 18 to 24 age group) to dress up with these and had a photo shoot. My best day with my daughter
That’s awesome!
Love your videos, Alina ! Your personality is so bubbly, so photogenic. I vote for you as Queen of travel videos !
Aw thank you so much!
Chungdu. My d-i-law’s hometown. Thank you for showing the videos on different places you went. We travelled to China the last 20 years.
Chengdu makes people feel relaxed and happy.
吃的都是经典菜，都是当地地道菜。衣服也不错😌
A very great job, Alina!❤❤❤❤
Wow what a great opening stunning
Ah, what a fabulous compilation of videos of China by Alina. They are all fantastic and unique in their own way, but if forced to pick only one, this one would have to be my favourite. It had it all: Pandas (of course), a sumptuous, somewhat intimidating hot pot shared with locals, decidedly beautiful cosplay that few other than Alina could pull off, and last but not least, the dubious, mercantile Coupling Corner. Simply epic.
Haha I’m glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
The coupling corner is interesting, strange at first, but after given some thoughts, I like it. Here in the US, it's hard to find someone to date or get married to, were so busy all the time. It's like online dating in a way, but more up and personal, which I like more. It's not for everyone, I think most people still prefer to find someone randomly in person, like it's always been, but I think it's great to have other options available in finding a partner.
I am from Taiwan Province of China. Our media has always said that the people in mainland China have no freedom at all. They have no clothes to wear and no food to eat. Thank you Alina for sharing the real mainland with us.
I visited China , HK and Thailand about 10 years ago..I couldn't believe how everyone even in small towns in China already had smart phones. And new subways........Thank you for explaining to me why my neighbors from Taiwan are completely brainwashed !!!!
@@mchammer3927 什么意思？台湾还有没有智能手机的？我们不是镇上有手机，是村里面的70多岁的老人都用智能手机了，因为可以跟外出打工的子女视频，因为可以刷抖音，现在大陆电视没人看了
我看你是没理解吧@@rockychan-dw7wf
@@rockychan-dw7wf don't get excited. He said he can't believe everyone has smart phone even in small towns in China. Actually that may not be true in the west since they don't use the smart phone like China does. Of course people are still watching TVs. Even with smartphone, people still have a lot program they can watch on TVs like internet drama. TVs are just bigger smartphones in China.
I repeatedly experienced at work in toronto how people who moved there from hong kong and taiwan argue with each other. Really badly even. It makes no sense to me. You're all the same to us.
9:02 the background setting is ideal with the beautiful hanfu, you are a natural Chinese, Alina.
haha thank you
@@AlinaMcleodmerry a Chinese man 😂
欢迎Alina。更要感谢几位年轻的本地向导，向大家展现出中国年轻人国际化的一面。
Gorgeous 👍👍👍
So finally there are panda´s and I am sure I saw Hua Hua somewhere too! In Holland we have also the opportunity to see a couple in a Zoo. They were borrowed from China and are very happy together!🐾
wow I don't even realize Hua Hua is that famous! She is the definition of 'adorable'😍
Wonderful
During my visit to the Chengdu Panda center, my favorite was the panda kindergarten. I was able to see quite a few baby pandas up close. They are all so cute, like little fur balls 😄
We sadly didn’t get to see any baby ones 🥲
Panda-rama❤❤
China is so good and generous to you. Don't think any other countries will give you this hospitality......enjoy !
The pandas I’ve never seen them except 40 years ago on National geographic
欢迎你赶快来中国旅游！
@ChopSuey-Dish 不喜欢就润嘛，又没人拦着你
欢迎
@ChopSuey-Dish歹丸人
Hi Alina! 😁🙏👋✨🌟 I hope your having a super fantastic day! This is truly a wonderful magnificent masterpiece video! 😄👍❤️👏📹🇨🇳🐼🎍🍲🥇💯💫✨🌟 The city of Chengdu looks so amazing! The Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Center, Jinli Street, Wangjianglou and People’s Park looks really marvelous! The pandas are really wonderful! Also you look so absolutely marvelous in the traditional dress Alina! It is so truly beautiful! 🙂👍👏👘🥇💯🌟 Even the food at the Shudaxia Hotpot restaurant and the other restaurants looks really delicious! I would definitely like to visit the city of Chengdu one day. It’s really a excellent city! Thank you so much Alina to share with us this magnificent video. I have really enjoyed watching it! You are the best and greatest world traveler adventurer ever! 😃👍👏✈️🌏📹🥇💯🏆💫🌟 I wish you Alina a marvelous fantastic amazing blessed day. 😊🙏❤️👋👍💫✨🌟
You are so beautiful! I didn't realize that. sorry.
lol thanks?
Greeting from San Francisco, Alina.! Thanks for sharing this great videos. I can't wait to go visit Chendu. plan to go in January. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate with me.
Hope you have a great time!
Jan is cold
Nice, what a way to gain recognition and popularity. That's one of my top three spots on my future itineraries
Pandas are just adorable! They must always be protected and this park is a great example. Very beautiful indeed. Thanks a lot Alina for this awesome video.🌷💕⚘️
Hi Alina 👋 👋 jamie it's been a while so your in panda 🐼 land I really wish iwas there with you in person . Then maybe I go get a panda 🐼 costume and surprise 😮 you right on the spot when you're vloging and I start dancing 🕺 around ! Then you start laughing 😂 then I can just imagine your response back to me ! You would be like you would do something like that you crazy 🤪 goof ball ! But then u would say I love ❤️ you anyway your just being jamie ! Hope the rest of your week turns out good Alina I love ❤️ you Alina my buddy jamie 😊
Great video as always Alina! The Pandas were awesome and your guide(s) were great. Seems like a very nice place to visit.
It sure was!
😊@@AlinaMcleod
Finding a date from the coupling corner may sound strange to the people from different cultures, but it can be a good option as long as the participants are all sincere to find a serious relationship.
Yeah I think its a great idea!
Alina are you single? Why not write your information in that corner?
lol I’m not looking to live in China long term
You missed the other colour form, the brown and white panda, which is a variation from the more common black and white panda. As a true bear, its at the opposite extreme from the polar bear Both hypercarnivores and hyperherbivores exist in the same family and the panda is an example of the latter! Your visit to Chengdu to see them, was a dream come true! 😊
It sure was!
lol i waited 2h to see huahua and all i saw was her big ass - still adorable 😂 pity u didnt visit the SanXingDui museum. one of the most ancient and mysterious unsolved history in china, quite differnt from stereotypical chinese civilization. google the pics, they're fascinating ❤
Wow!!!! Alina you really looks gorgeous with those traditional Chinese dresses. May I know if you don't mind tell me are you married already? Unfortunately I am with 2 children. 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
I feel amazed by your caracters, its Chinese ones, is diferent from japaneses ones right?
I'm living in Chengdu.Thank you for introducing my hometown on RUclips.Kunming is also a nice place to visiting.Really hope you can enjoy your time in China.
Watching the Panda videos'. I get the feeling they are "Nice but Dim ". Not surprising if all you eat is "Bamboo"??
what a wonderful place! looked so beautiful and YES I like to visit Chengdu city! Thanks, Alina for the great video! 👍👍👍🦝
my parents are traveling in chendu this week, I hope I could travel to chendu too in the future
The woman that was born in 1991.10, the guy translated it wrong. He said she's single with children, but she's actually divorced with no kids. She did say she's the only child in her family. She has no siblings.
When Alina said she has one child, he said one child. what he meant was she's had no siblings not she has one child.
Ah I see
After being in USA for a year，I can finally go back to Chengdu in 10 days.
Alina, Did you get to see Winnie the Pooh there as well? They also have a research base there in Chengdu to study him.😂😂😂
Hi, Alina, you're very close to one of the hidden wonders of China: 螺髻九十九里温泉瀑布。It's the largest hot spring water fall cascade in the world, yet very few people heard of it.
Thanks for the tip!
In this Panda Park back in 2014, I donated 100 yuan to the research fund and got a free 15-inch stuffed panda toy and a certificate of donation. The toy itself would cost 100 yuan anyway, so that made you feel so happy. Not sure if they still offer it now.
Can nonchinese speakers survive visiting China and if shops and hotels have people that can comminicate in english. Thank you
Where I visited in the country it was very rare to come across English speakers, but you can just use google translate.
Do you like tomato-flavored hot pot? This flavor has become very popular in recent years.
Yes ours was actually tomato based!
Beautiful lady introducing beautiful city of China. Great ❤
u are a cute potato
I love potatos, so thanks
To be fair, if someone pays for my hotel, dinning, fun activities, transportation and plans out the day, treats me like a queen, I can do this for the rest of my life with a day break here and there😂
I mean you still have to put in a 40hour week editing and doing admin stuff, but absolutely it is an incredible job!
@AlinaMcleod Fair enough. I guess it is just a different model of work. My friend also complained about the jetlag after a fancy business trip even though the company put him in business class and 5 star hotel.lol. Good job there showing the tourist side of China. Keep it going.
@ChopSuey-Dish Then leave
Coupling corner? Sounds illegal…..😂😂😂😂
LOL
What is a trip without a good meal. (A good hot pot) Interesting trip but nothing like walking across a sky scraper roof or the rock formations at the Chinese National Park. Interesting all depends on what you enjoy as an individual person. Personally, I would like to see the different varieties of bamboo and how it is used for every day items, construction techniques using bamboo, & the process of making cross laminated bamboo building sheets. ( kind of like an Asian ply board made from bamboo)
My favorite Mega city in China. Love Chengdu! The panda reserve is always so crowded, but it's worth it. The Hot Pot places are all amazing as is the tea house theater.
Thanks
Thank you so much for the support!
You are really knocking it out of the park on this China tour. So much fun!
Thank you so much!
I go to Panda Express, the next best thing 🤔
lol it’s the closest USA has I guess
@@AlinaMcleod 😆
@@AlinaMcleod there are pandas in couple of cities in USA, San Diego, DC, for sure. i'm not sure about Seattle and maybe in Florida.
I love chengdu, and hot pot, I always leave with my hot ass😂😂
nice! thank you so much for the wonderful sharing of your travel log in China. just amazing and beautiful! thx
Alina, hurry up and get out of China. It's dangerous for you to stay there too long because you might fall in love with China... And that might bother some people. 😁
14:30 before internet era, people date like that. Not advertizing in public park, but in newspaper.
Since this kind of ads are made by parent for their children, it's more convenient like the old time. LOL
I actually remember those lol
Oh my god you're so beautiful like an angel
Hi Alina,
stunning impressions well emphasized by matching music and well done cut.
I have heard about Chengdu, but haven’t been there. Years ago I have been to Kunming. So I am already curious how it looks today.
Best regards, Ralf
Would definitely recommend visiting! Kunming was also lovely.
If you guys wanna pay a visit to Giant Panda and Red Panda breeding base ,you'd better choose the morning time . dont ask me why CUZ i've picked up a wrong time already and i didnt see so many pandas there ! what a regret!😭
You look great in the Asian dresses that suit you. Pandas were very cute thanks for another nice vide
Kung Pao Chicken is a funny dish. It’s every where in the US or Canada but quite rare in China. Then for some reasons served on the Chinese Space Station.
In China this is just a common dish, there are many other options. I don't know why kung pao chicken seems to be the representative of Chinese food in the US
Before this I saw a video made by you in which you said that you will not be able to meet your biological father. I was very saddened after watching that 4 year old video, that where did the father go after leaving such a beautiful girl? Why did he do this? Still you should not be sad, I pray to God that if your father is alive in this world and wherever he is, he should meet you.
“熊猫都是假的，都是人扮的”
-reddit
台湾没有熊猫🐼，当然是人扮的呢！
Alina 我觉得你可以在公园的相亲角里找个中国男朋友😂
I don’t think they’re looking for foreigners lol
I was so impressed with this video and to see the major changes this park has done. I visited 20 years ago with my two children who loved spending time with the pandas. It was more or less an educational center, and it was not developed. In addition, the tour company thought it was odd that I wanted to visit here. 😅It's so nice now and even there were no crowds when I visited. My children wore plastic aprons and hugged the Panda on a bench. Now it's a proper amusement park full of guests. It was lovely. Thank you for the video that brought back such wonderful memories for me.😊.
Life is so unfair, even for panda, they're favorite one😂😂😂 Hua Hua is famous because he/she is round or overweight😭😭😭
Love your Videos, Love the Music , please stay in China for ever!
I will gladly visit once in a while lol
Alina Mcleod, a super beautiful and kind Goddess!❤❤❤💯💯💯
I love your outfit and the pandas! ❤❤
Thank you!
Odynadtsyata hodyna vechora meaning 11:00 PM in Ukrainian 🇺🇦😀😃
The panda being feeling like celebrities😂😂😂
They absolutely are 😁
@@AlinaMcleod wow, got reply from my favorite 💃💃💃
Dera miss Alina I want to ask you that how many characteristics did you have in your personality? Now you are looking like a queen.
本来就是。
Hi, we are planing to visit Chengdu next week, could you share the Chinese dress rental store Thank you! Your video is very helpful to our trip
Hi there you have definitely inspired us to re-visit China.....just curious if you will be doing a video to sum up your visit there.
I will actually! It will be my last video on this series, will be the 3rd video from now.
Loved your videos, but dear Alina, I have learned from CNN, NBC, BBC, DW, and so on that China is collapsing and people are miserable.
这样写的新闻没人看，幵心就好。
They are right, you have to believe their reports!
You can see from the video that there are sheets spread out in the coupling corners, which is proof that people in Chengdu are unhappy, or at least a lot of them have a hard time getting married, isn't it?
Hi, Alina, I love Sichuan cuisine! I wish you could take me there to try the delicious food!!
Need to go to Chengdu again, didn't see anything apart from panda park
you should bring your mother to china next time... so she can experience it in person. It wont be a lot more because your hotel is already booked. So adding an extra person doesnt make much difference.
Taiwan freedom country 🐻🐻🐻
Freedom and prosperity!
Taiwan is a region belong to Fujian Province of China.
@@AhmetTekin101 🐸🐸🐸
@@jingxinwu6303 Is that why Xi Jinping needs a visa to visit Taiwan?
@@jingxinwu6303 Prove it!