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Chengdu Panda Breeding Center Tour: Half-Day Private Visit with Optional Volunteering
4.8
242 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.
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:
24 hours
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…
- 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
- Private comfortable air-conditioned vehicle
- Professional English-speaking guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Return transfer between airport and panda base (only if layover panda tour selected)
- Entry/Admission - Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)
- Volunteer for Panda (if volunteer option selected)
- Private comfortable air-conditioned vehicle
- Professional English-speaking guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Return transfer between airport and panda base (only if layover panda tour selected)
- Entry/Admission - Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)
- Volunteer for Panda (if volunteer option selected)
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food
- 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 the “volunteer” option is selected) from Chengdu. Accompanied by a professional English-speaking guide, stroll through the research and breeding facilities while observing the pandas and…
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 the “volunteer” option is 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.
Don’t want to waste your time at the airport? Now you can take this chance to see lovely pandas with NO VISA required if you take an international flight via Chengdu. Select Layover Panda Tour with private transfer between the airport and panda base, easily making the most of your time with a simple click.
- 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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(242 Ratings)
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Andrearc6725hm
Oct 9, 2024
Panda Experience - It was a very pleasant morning, our guide WELLS showed up on time, prepared and kind he guided us at the panda center. Book with this guy to enjoy the best time.
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Jorge
Sep 23, 2024
Great visit - Wells was a very helpful guide! He took me to all the spots, explained what everything was. He also explained to me things outside the panda world and answered all my questions. He and the driver were kind, punctual, and on top of logistics! Highly recommend!
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Claire_h
Sep 19, 2024
Precious Pandas - Our English speaking guide, Jason, was very knowledgeable and we could finally learn things about China as a whole. He was also flexible and happy to let us chose.
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Selenegn
Sep 16, 2024
Lovely and unforgettable experience - An essential visit, one of the highlights of our stay in Chengdu. We were very lucky because being mid-September and going first thing in the morning there were hardly any tourists, we were practically alone. Also, although it was hot and very humid we had the opportunity to see the pandas outside. Lovely and unforgettable experience, which I recommend to anyone passing through Chengdu. As for our Guide, Wells, he was very punctual, friendly and knew a lot about pandas, plus we could talk with him about other topics. We spent a great day together (as we then also visited the Great Buddha of Leshan). Notably, he speaks English perfectly.
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Helen
Sep 10, 2024
Fabulous morning at Chengdu Panda Breeding Centre, Sichuan hotpot lunch and Chengdu Museum visit - A fabulous morning visit to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Centre with our fabulous tour guide Wells today.
Wells and our driver met us at our hotel promptly at the agreed time. We then headed out to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Centre. As it was earlier in the morning it didn’t take us too long to arrive.
We saw lots of beautiful giant pandas and red pandas and throughly enjoyed the lovely environment there. Wells gave us a lot of information about the animals, his English was excellent. We learned so much while we were there and have some gorgeous photos to treasure.
We then had a delicious Sichuan hotpot meal at a restaurant Wells booked for us and then finished our fascinating day with a visit to Chengdu Museum which was well worth the visit
All in all a fabulous day in Chengdu with our driver and Wells our amazing tour guide. Thank you so much Wells for giving us this great experience. 🙏
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Idasf5754rj
Sep 10, 2024
Panda Panda Panda! - A wonderful day full of beautiful experiences! We were lucky and could see many panda!:3
Our guide Madonna was super kind and helpful. She showed us the best places where you could see the panda from take and there were not many people and she took beautiful photos of us and even a video! Thank you very much!
Definitely don't forget the passport, put on good shoes and bring stamina:) the park is huge!
We were very happy to have an experienced escort. In the beginning there were far too many people, but Madonna knew well where and when to see the panda and also knew places with almost no or even no people!
We didn’t take many photos with the phone, more with the camera, so I couldn’t upload the best ones here.
Thank you Madonna for taking so good care of us! It was fantastic!
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Enricabucchioni
Aug 24, 2024
Recommended experience with Pandas - Wonderful experience. The driver picked up at the hotel and the guide was waiting for us at the center with all tickets. No queue! Unfortunately due to the hot weather, we saw the giant pandas inside, but we enjoyed the red pandas in their habitat! Our guide, Wells, was very prepared, professional and with excellent English command.
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Gavink353
Aug 19, 2024
Great Experience - I was recommend by friends to go to the Panda centre early for opening. I contact the guide and he was happy to change to leave early. The guide arrived at hotel before the pick up time, and had a sign with my name on. He spoke good English and was happy to share all about the city on the way to the Panda park.
When we arrived (7:20am) the entry queue was already quite large, you definitely need to get there before 7:30am do not get there any later.
We entered the park and we went straight to see the red pandas, and saw some. We then walked uphill to the back of the park to see some of the panda pavilions. Most people went straight to the fully grown pandas and the queue to see them looked like hours long. We went to the other pavilions and saw many pandas with hardly anyone about. For me, this was definitely the way to do it. We then went to the baby panda enclosure which said it opened at 9, but it was open before them and we went in with hardly any queuing, It was still very very busy though.
At about 9:30am the park was full of people and the queue for the fully grown panda was significantly long and I would think would be a 2-3 hour queue to see the big pandas. I was happy to leave as I had already seen lots of Pandas and it was quite hot.
The guide was excellent and I would highly recommend this experience. Unless you are intent of seeing the famous social media pandas, and are happy to wait in a queue for hours.....listen to where the guide tells you to go. He knew the quiet areas and where to go to see pandas towards teh back of the park where most people weren't. I would also strongly recommend you leave earlier than the start time of 7:30am.
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Baukjev_12
Aug 19, 2024
Smart guide to the Panda’s! - On a very hot summer day, in the middle of the holiday season, we still wanted to see the panda’s. And because of our guide Wills, we managed to see a lot of them!
Because of the hot weather, only a few panda’s were outdoors. Wills knew a lot of shortcuts through the park and guided us through the loads of tourists, so we could see quite a few panda’s!
Wills is a very friendly and smart guide, and he speaks very good English. He also took us to the Leshan Giant Buddha, where he also managed to guide us through perfectly and with a lot of fun.
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Rachel
Aug 16, 2024
Highly recommend - Great stress free way to see the Pandas especially in the heat of the summer and with huge crowds due to summer holidays. Our guide Wills meet us at our hotel and knew the shortcuts to get around the large sanctuary grounds and avoid some of the crowds. If we had been on our own would have been a bit of a challenge. Wills was punctual and friendly and answered all our questions as well as helping us book the Chinese Opera for the afternoon. Thanks Wills!
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