Too cute to miss the 1600 panda display in KL

When I first saw some friends posting about the 1600 pandas in Malaysia, I was super excited. I have never seen a real panda in my life despite the fact that Zoo Negara is now having two pandas from China. I didn't think it was worth to pay additional RM20 on top of the zoo entrance ticket so no effort has been made to witness these pandas. But these little pandas are just too cute.

They were made with paper mache for "Support 1600PandasMY for Initiating the Culture of Creative Conservation". Besides taking photos with the pandas, there were donation drives through WWF monthly contribution, mugs, umbrellas, t-shirts and etc that can be bought. The 1600 panda display ends today, 25th Jan 2015. Details about these pandas are located at their facebook page.

We reached Publika and walked around in search for the pandas. Rap was excited as well. He kept asking where are the pandas. Instead of hitting straight to the panda display, we ended up at the booths selling things and signing up for panda conservation by WWF. We signed up for a monthly contribution with WWF, collected some panda stickers and rap got busy with them as soon as he got it. His stroller still has 2 stickers attached in addition to other stickers already on it. Ok la whatever.

When we reached the exhibition area, it was exciting! SOOOOOO MANY PANDAAASSSSSSS!! I felt like jumping right in and hugging some. Rap was just as excited, trying to drag me in while I try to refrain my temptation and also stopping him by the barrier around the pandas. Rap was asking if he could hold them. Well, we are not allowed to get in unless we purchase a photo shoot (which goes for the conservation, I believe). We sent appa to go buy tickets for the photo session so we could all hold a panda! The queue was long, rap and I took some wefies with the pandas and enjoyed the special edition panda displays. Rap loved the special edition panda with the badminton racquet just because we played some indoor badminton :p. Maybe it was more fun to relate to something he knows than something just descriptive.

After almost an hour of queuing for tickets and waiting, it was our turn. Yaaaayyyyy! We were walked from 1 end of the exhibition to the other because it was just 3 of us. We had the privilege to walk by the side but within the display of the pandas. Which means we could actually reach our hands and touch them as we walk. Rap started running in excitement and even made a turn and ran the other way to grab a panda. Had to be on alert to stop him. Finally, we got our chance to hold the pandas and they were in such hug-able size. We also requested for help from the volunteers to snap a few on my phone. If only I could just spend a little longer hugging those little pandas. Nonetheless, it was a fun experience.

Our photo would only be ready in 15mins time, so we head to lunch and came back afterwards to feast our eyes with those pandas again and collected our photo which turned out pretty nice. Rap bid farewell to the pandas. We have photos to recall this day. It was worth getting there.