Dujiangyan Panda Base with Optional Volunteering and Photo-taking with Panda

Sightseeing  :  China  :  Sichuan  :  Chengdu  :  Nature & Wildlife

Your driver will meet you at your hotel lobby on scheduled departure time before making the 1.5-hour drive to Dujiangyan Panda Valley. Dujiangyan Panda Valley, short form for China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) Dujiangyan Base, is the only place in China you can be a Panda Volunteer and take picture with pandas at the same time.

Upon arrival, local staff will assist you with check-in for volunteer work and furnish you with uniform, gloves, and a volunteer’s ID card for the day. During your volunteer program, the staff will be on-site to enhance the communication between volunteers and local panda keepers. If you do not participate in the volunteer program and only wish to take picture with pandas, you may tour the Panda Valley and return to the box office at 10:30am. The staff in Panda Valley will arrange you to take picture with panda.

As a volunteer, you will clean the panda enclosure, sweep out food scrapes of the leftover bamboo leaves as well as panda waste, and replenish fresh bamboo leaves. From 10am to 11am, you will have a break to tour the facility and even partake in the panda holding program to have your pictures taken with a young panda.

Around 11 am, local panda keepers will show you how to feed a panda with your own hands. Once you finish the morning work, you will have a simple lunch with the staff in a panda canteen. After lunch, the staff will show you a documentary movie about the life cycle of giant pandas. Your afternoon work will start by 2:00pm when you begin to clean the panda enclosure again. You will then feed pandas with apples or panda cakes. You will get a chance to make the panda cakes yourself!

At approximately 3:00pm, your volunteer program concludes and you will receive a Panda Volunteer Certificate issued by the Panda Conservation and Research Center for the unforgettable panda care-taking work you contributed. Your driver will then transfer you back to your Chengdu hotel.

**You must advise tour operator in special requirement at time of booking whether you are interested in being a volunteer, a keeper, or both, as price of this tour only includes access to facility and transportation.