Summer Vacation

This summer, I went to China for vacation. The first place I went to was Hong Kong, which was very busy. After Hong Kong, our family went to Beijing. We went to many places in Beijing, including Tian An Men Square, the Sunmer Palace, and the Temple of Heaven. One place inparticular was really cool. We went to the Great Wall of China. Inerestingly, at the end, after we finished going on to the wall and got back down, there was an area where there were bears. They never said what kind of bears they were, but they were really cool. It costed $3HK to feed them a little basket of carrots, and around $8HK equals $1, so it was pretty cheap. The cage type think was lower than the ground so that they could not get out. There were wooden platforms to sleep on, and stairs that they could walk up and down on, but the main attraction was the pole structure that stood in the front of the feeding area. Most of the bears were just sleeping, but two of them were attracting many people. One was standing on top of the pole structure, which is about 20 ft high compared to where they could stand,  and the other was standing on the ground. You could throw carrots into their mouths, and if you were not too off they would stretch their necks and catch it, which sometimes it looked like it was impossible. The one on the floor was just picking up all the leftovers of the people who threw bad. We were there for about a half an hour, buying 5 or 6 baskets to feed them.
After we visited Tian An Men Square, we had some spare time, so we went to the zoo to see some Giant Pandas. They were really large, and there was information on the walls about their rarity and about how some of them appeared at the 2008 Olympics. They were really interesting, mostly because almost all of them were sleeping. It was really funny because some would roll over, but some of them just did nothing. One panda was actually eating when we were there, and w got to see how they ate the bamboo leaves. The panda would just grab it with its paws and start to eat the shoot. When he finished, he got up, grab another, and then just plopped back down. After visiting the pandas, my sister really wanted to stop by the penguin exhibit, so we did, but it wasn't really that interesting.