🏨 Private Day Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteering from Chengdu Activity

Private Day Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteering from Chengdu

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 8 hours

Departs: China, China

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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Overview

Dujiangyan Panda Base is one of the bases in Sichuan where you may join the Panda Volunteer Program. This private 8-hour tour will give you record behavior, clean enclosures and prepare food for the adorable mammals. Learn how the center's professional staff looks after these endangered animals on a daily basis.

What's Included

Bottled water

English-speaking tour guide

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Lunch

Private normal car or luxury car (please choose)

Private tour

Travel Insurance

Volunteering fees

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 0 - 11
ADULT: Age: 12 - 75

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Passport name and number is required at time of booking for all participants for Travel Insurance
Please note: Program could be modified based on the health of the pandas
There is a daily limit of 20 volunteers for the Panda Keeper Program, so please reserve in advance and ensure your vacancy.

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Passport name and number is required at time of booking for all participants for Travel Insurance
Please note: Program could be modified based on the health of the pandas
There is a daily limit of 20 volunteers for the Panda Keeper Program, so please reserve in advance and ensure your vacancy.

Cancellation Policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Dujiangyan Panda Base

In the early morning (about 07:10), your tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel within the 3rd ring of Chengdu and drive to the Dujiangyan Panda Base to check into the volunteer program. You will get a uniform, gloves, and a volunteer’s ID card for the day. Your guide will introduce you to the professional panda keepers who look after these majestic creatures. These panda keepers speak very little English; however, your guide will be there for you at all times to translate and taking memorable photos of you.

Your volunteering program itinerary:

9:00am–10:00am Clean the panda enclosures

Panda keepers need to supply fresh bamboo to these national treasures three times each day. The pandas usually eat only 30% of the bamboo, wasting 70% of it. You will need to sweep out the leftovers, replace it with fresh bamboo, and clean out the feces.

10:00am–11:00am Take a break and tour around the panda base

Have a relaxing walk in the well-paved base and listen to the legendary stories of these pandas. You will also have a chance to meet four naughty red pandas.

11:00am–11:30am Feed a panda

Pandas are supplied with panda cakes, apples, and carrots four times a day. The panda keepers will show you how to feed a panda with your own hands at close proximity.

11:30am–1:00pm Have lunch and a rest in the base

1:00pm–2:00pm Watch a panda movie that lasts for about 40 minutes

You will see a special documentary about how the shy pandas mate, give birth, grow up, and are returned to the wild.

2:00pm–3:30pm More cleaning and feeding, and making panda’s cakes

The bamboo you supplied in the morning will have become dry by the afternoon. Remove it and replace it with fresh bamboo. Then feed the pandas with some more panda cakes and apples. Having fed the pandas with panda cakes, aren’t you curious as to how they are made? It is time to make some panda cakes with your own hands. The ingredients will be prepared in advance. Get creative about the shapes of the cakes.

3:30pm–4:00pm Get a certificate, and drive back to Chengdu

6 hours • Admission Ticket Included

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