Chengdu Panda Breeding Center Tour: Half-Day Private Visit with Optional Volunteering
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205 Ratings
Chengdu
Experience a half-day private tour of the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center or the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center. Get up close with pandas and learn about their breeding and life stages.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi) - Meet your friendly English-speaking guide at your hotel lobby and you’ll head to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, a non-profit research and breeding facility for giant pandas and other rare animals. Spend your morning with the cutest, yet impressive, creatures in China! 3 hours inside the Panda Center, tour through the baby and adult panda areas. On a guided tour, visit different sections of the center to get a full overview of a panda’s development. Visit the baby garden, where you can see giant panda cubs born in summer, which weigh only about 3.5 ounces (100 grams) at birth and by the third month are able to walk on their own. Then stop at the sub-adult garden, where the adolescent pandas hang out, and see the adult garden, which houses the giant pandas in all their full-grown glory. Take pictures of this endangered species eating bamboo, sleeping or frolicking about. Finally, visit the red panda section to see these small adorable animals and try to spot the sleeping red pandas stretched out on branches in the red panda garden.
What's Included
  • Volunteer for Panda (if option selected)
  • Private comfortable air-conditioned vehicle
  • Professional English-speaking guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Entry/Admission - Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food
Additional Information

Spend a morning with some of China’s most majestic mammals during a private tour of the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center or the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center(only if ‘volunteer’ option selected) from Chengdu. Accompanied by a professional English-speaking guide, stroll through the research and breeding facilities while observing the pandas and learning about their breeding and life stages. Visit the red panda area to see these quiet but territorial creatures.

  • Volunteer are available. Please consult us for availability for this option.
  • Customers who book the panda volunteer option will tour the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center. The center is approximately 90 minutes away from central Chengdu.
Location
Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)
No.1375 Xiongmao Avenue the Outside Northern Third Ring Road, Chenghua District
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sofia_b
Mar 25, 2024
Great guide - Helen was an excellent guide - friendly, great English and was able to tailor the tour to my wishes. Had a wonderful experience.
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Rowena_l
Mar 10, 2024
Visit to see the great pandas - Our guide was very knowledgeable about both pandas and the work of the centre. She was able to guide us around the extensive centre, successfully taking us to where we were most able to see the pandas in action. Her English was excellent and patience and understanding as a guide were faultless. We came to Chengdu to see the pandas - and we did!
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Maggiemight6
Jan 28, 2024
Unforgetable Experience! - Experience of a lifetime for me, even if I was just cleaning their enclosures and preparing their food. Although you cannot touch them, you do get much closer to these magnificient animals than the zoo experience. The information imparted on their care and efforts made to rehab them back into a wild habitat is truly inspiring. The lunch was simple, yet very tasty. The tour guide will take pictures/videos of you during the panda care part of the day as you cannot take your own camera into their enclosures. At the end of the day, you do get swag including your certification certificate as a panda volunteer. As it was winter school break, there were several children volunteers and efforts were made to have them in a different group than adults, which I appreciated.
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Gagan_b
Jan 22, 2024
Recommended tour for foreigners. - Penny was a great tour guide - she went above and beyond to ensure my experience was great. Arrived on time and went little over scheduled time.
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Mark_g
Jan 5, 2024
Great tour! - Great tour - got in early and there was hardly anyone around. Tour guide was awesome - very knowledgeable and clearly had a passion for the job!
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Aleksey
Dec 30, 2023
Pandas are awesome - Had a fun time seeing pandas. Kudos to Worley, who guided me through the entire experience. Expect to be ready to depart around 7am to see animals before their feeding time, when they rush to their enclosures! And make sure to brush up on your sculpturing skills to make the best panda cake out there!
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Klara
Nov 26, 2023
A great volunteering experience - I had such a great a time visiting the Panda base and also being a volunteer, which I booked out of curiosity, but I’m glad I did. As a volunteer you get not only to clean the panda’s cage (which actually felt rewarding) but also to see the pandas being fed from a close distance. The whole day was very well organised and special thanks belong to my tour guide Rosalin who was there with me the whole time. She is such a lovely and funny character and I believe we truly got along. She is very knowledgeable about pandas and the history of the panda base as well.
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Joseph_c
Nov 24, 2023
Knowledgeable and exciting trip with awesome guide Rosalie - Rosalie was extremely knowledgeable about Pandas. Together with an excellent command of English, fun facts were communicated seamlessly. She also shared a lot about great tour and food spots in Cheng Du. In all, we had a fun filled morning thanks to her sincere hospitality. Thank you!
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Alexandre_b
Nov 10, 2023
Great afternoon, great guide - We had a great afternoon and were lucky enough to see lots of pandas and panda babies. Our guide Cassie was incredibly nice, perfectly informed and even took us to a local teahouse after the trip. We can only recommend the excursion (and especially a tour with Cassie).
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William_l
Oct 19, 2023
Fun with 🐼 - Even though it was super crowded but it was worth it to see the adorable Pandas in person. The guide Roselyn was perfect part of the experience 🙂
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