by Meg | Dec 3, 2017 | Travel |
I love visiting Bifengxia in December for multiple reasons. The first is that we are outside of the tourist season and the airplanes, buses, and cities are somewhat empty. Second is the cold temperatures. Lastly, and arguably my favorite, is that I get to have...
by Meg | Jul 3, 2017 | Travel |
Having worked at the panda base for a solid month, everyone decided to spend a few “relaxing” days in the highly recommended mountain town of Emeishan. Mt. Emei, as it is also called, is renowned for its Buddhist temples, wild monkeys, and impressive...
by Meg | Dec 10, 2016 | Panda, Travel
Busy days here at the Bifengxia panda base. Not only from PDXWildlife studies, but also from a massive reconstruction of the tourist facilities and bear pens. As all of the remodeling began about a year ago, they seem to have wrapped the majority of the work up...
by Meg | Nov 28, 2016 | PDXWildlife, Travel |
After a nearly empty flight where I had full reign of about 30 seats, I landed in Chengdu and high-tailed it to the nearby hotel. With no stalling at check-in, I pulled up the stopwatch on my phone which told me that I had been traveling for 22 hours from my Uber...
by Meg | Nov 14, 2016 | Internship, Travel
Hello again everyone! Sorry that there hasn’t been many posts recently, we’ve just had a little bit of a hectic week with the Holiday Auction and the election results. Scout, Celina, and Sofy have all returned to the US and we will miss them (and the baby panda...
by Meg | Oct 3, 2016 | Internship, Travel |
With my crazy fall schedule I’ve been bad about actually sharing many of the photos and stories I collected while at BFX. I was lucky enough to meet the parents of two of my 2016 Fall Interns – a first for me as usually parents have traditionally come at...
