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Dengchigou Church & Panda Discovery Site 邓池沟Dèngchí Gōu
4A scenic area · Ya'an, Sichuan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Ya'an
- Region
- Sichuan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Dengchigou Church & Panda Discovery Site
The valley where the French missionary-naturalist Armand David was based in 1869, when he obtained a giant panda; the specimen he sent to the natural history museum in Paris was the first scientific specimen of the animal. The church he worked from, begun in 1839, survives, its Sichuan-style timber exterior enclosing a Gothic-style interior. It lies in Fengtongzhai township, whose nature reserve is part of the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries World Heritage Site.
How to get to Dengchigou Church & Panda Discovery Site
In Fengtongzhai township, about an hour by road north-east of Baoxing county town.
Nearby
- Mount Mengding 蒙顶山 50 km
Misty tea terraces and an imperial tea garden where tea growing is said to have begun - Mount Siguniang 四姑娘山 50 km
Four 'sister' snow peaks above three alpine valleys of forest, meadow and lakes
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