Your day begins with a 7:00am pickup from your central Chengdu hotel(You will go to do the volunteer work and the pandas are most active in the morning, so you should get up early to do this work). Greet your driver-guide and together head about one and half an hour to the world-renowned Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Dujiangyan.
Upon arrival meet the local staff, then you will be taken to visit the base around before beginning your volunteer work. A lecturer from the base gives you a brief introduction on the panda and they work that they are doing to conserve this endangered species.
You will be provided with gloves and overalls in order to protect the animals and then learn how to prepare panda food by washing and carrying fresh bambooor fruits and also help to make cakes. You will also clean the panda enclosure. Under close supervision of center staff, you have the opportunity to feed the pandas.
After these programs, you will have your lunch in panda base. In the afternoon,you could have a free walk in panda base, take photos for these lovely pandas and watch a short panda film about how to protect pandas and get along with them. And you also could continue your panda volunteer work to help staff to clean the indoor and outdoor enclosure and learn the lecture to make the special bread for pandas.
In the end, you will get a certificate and a souvenir from the Dujiangyan panda base.
Your tour concludes with a drop-off back at your hotel in Chengdu with a good memory.
Optional program:
You can also visit Taoism sacred mountain Mt. Qingchegnshan or Dujiangyan dam, there will be extra cost for it.
1. Fees for optional tour to Mt. Qingchengshan: US$45.00 per person, including tickets, round trip cable car, electric sightseeing car.
2. Fees for optional tour to Dujiangyan Dam: US$35.00 per person, including tickets, electric sightseeing car.
Price (Based on per person and shown in US dollars):
Group Size |
1 Person |
2-3 Person |
4-5 Person |
6-9 person |
Tour Price |
$ 705 |
$612 |
$545 |
$527 |
Price included:
1. Private English speaking guide service.
2. Private transportation of a car .
3. Tour ticket and volunteer fee
4. Donation of 1800 RMB per person to Dujiangyan panda base that you can make one picture with panda in your arm.
4. Lunch.
5. Insurance fees for per person.
Not included:
1. Tip for guide and driver.
2. Any other cost.
3. Optional tour to Mt. Qingchengshan nor Dujiangyan Dam.