I was watching Samantha Brown’s Passport to China and in this episode she went to Sichuan Province. They featured:

- the Leshan Giant Buddha
- Sichuan opera with mask changing and hand shadow shows
- Sichuan cooking and market
- giant pandas (love the baby pandas)
- a Taoist temple with people doing their morning Tai Chi
- the living water park within the city - they call it living water because it’s dirty water (dead water) going through an ecological/water art park…by the end of the tour the water in that area of the park is already purified (living water). It’s a nice concept.

I have to say that of all the Passport episodes I’ve seen, this one I liked the least. I blame it on the production. How do I describe it…it looked low-budget and rushed. And the crowdedness (duh, China) and air pollution didn’t help the appeal of the place. It was interesting but I would have loved seeing the more mysterious, more isolated part of China.

I had to say something about this because I really love Passport to Europe, especially the UK episodes. Scotland for instance is a place blessed with natural beauty…hayyy. Made a promise to myself to go there someday. And Alaska to see the aurora hehehe. Anyway, if I have the extra money I wouldn’t mind spending them on DVDs of:

- Passport to Europe
- Survivorman
- Planet Earth