1 Day Dujiangyan Panda Loving Care Tour
Lifetime Panda Loving Care
Lifetime Panda Loving Care
Would you like to observe the daily life of giant pandas up close and personal? If so, the Dujiangyan Panda Base offers the best opportunity for sharing your loving care for giant pandas.
The full-day Panda Loving Care program at the Dujiangyan Panda Base from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM enables you to become an "Honorable Keeper" and "Panda Nutritionist," caring for the cuddly giant pandas. Moreover, as a caring participant, you can closely observe the panda keepers feeding these adorable creatures. Additionally, you can enjoy a fun trip watching pandas climb trees, play together, eat, and sleep. This once-in-a-lifetime experience, even if it's only a few hours, is truly unforgettable.
Please note that to participate in the Panda Loving Care, you need to inquire about availability and make a reservation in advance. The final activities arranged during your Panda Loving Care is subject to change according to the specific situations.
Day 1 Dujiangyan Panda Loving Care Experience (L)
Round Trip to Dujiangyan Panda Base for Full Day Panda Loving Care Experience Program
In the early morning, our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel in Chengdu around 07:00 and drive 1.5 hours to Dujiangyan Panda Base to fulfill your once-in-lifetime panda love caring work.
09:00-09:20 Preparation
Arrive at Dujiangyan Panda Base around 09:00. Learn the safety announcement and sign the security agreement. Put on work clothes and gloves before going the workplace. You will be led by experienced keepers and told matters needed attention.
09:20-11:30 Honorable Panda Keeper & Panda Yards Visiting
Participants involve in panda loving care work, including cleaning working area, carrying in fresh bamboos leaves and shoots, breaking and washing bamboo shoots, observing and recording pandas' behaviors, etc. You will also be provided a rare chance to watch panda keepers feeding pandas closely. Besides, you will learn about the living habits of giant pandas with the explanation from the popular science teacher.
11:30-12:50 Lunch & Break Time
Have lunch with the staff and other participants in the restaurant and take a short break.
12:50-13:50 Watch Panda Documentary
Watch a panda documentary that shows the scientific facts about the endangered species, to understand how humans protect them and how we may live in harmony with them.
13:50-14:30 Panda Nutritionist
Learn to make Wowotou, a nutritive special cake for the pandas. Learn about the dietaries for breeding giant pandas and wild giant pandas.
14:30-15:30 Rescued Panda Care
Cut fresh bamboo leaves for the elderly giant pandas.
15:00-15:30 Be Awarded Loving Care Certificate
After finishing the loving care program, you will be awarded honorable "panda loving care certificate".
Later time is free for you to visit pandas and wander in the panda park until your guide and driver escort you to your hotel in Chengdu or Airport / Train Station.
(Note: Please book train departing after 18:00 or flight departing after 19:00. )
Dujiangyan Panda Loving Care Cleaning Work
1. This price is for one person.
2. This price is subject to change according to your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2025.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1=RMB 7.00. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.
Hi Rita,
The best experience ever!!!! I fell in love.
I received your lovely card and cute gifts, thank you so much.
Done it! As always it’s my pleasure to hire your company services, see you in the next adventure.
Emmy
Hi Rita,
Please kindly see the feedback below.
We are a family of 7. This private tour package definitely met our expectations! Both tour guides (Chengdu- MAY & Chongqing-DAVID) provided us a very good service, both friendly and very flexible despite the change in our tour schedules. They were also very responsible and ensured our safety, meals and transports were well taken care of, especially since we have elderly and kids in our group. Both tour guides are very fluent in English too so it is very convenient for some of the non-chinese speakers in our group.
We will look for the same tour agent again in our next trip to China!
Best Regards,
Victoria
Hi Shirley,
Thanks for the tour, and the itinerary that you planned for us was very comprehensive and detailed. We enjoyed it very much. The tour guide was also very friendly and experienced. He followed your itinerary closely and brought us to all the sites and explained in detail. He also recommended and brought us to enjoy some of the local cuisines during lunch.
Overall, we are impressed by the excellent service, reliability and quality that yourself, the tour guide and the driver has provided us. We would like to visit China again and we will not hesitate to engage your services again. Thank you!
Regards
Chun How
Hi Shirley,
I'm writing to provide some feedback on our recent Xian and Beijing trip that you put together for us.
We travel a lot, in the past year to Japan, New Zealand, China, Turkey, Africa, China, and finally this Xian/Beijing trip. I bring this up to highlight that we deal with a lot of travel professionals. You are easily the best travel professional we have dealt with through all of those trips. My wife, who happens to be Chinese asked me to make sure to keep your contact information for future China trips, with the intention of replacing the China based agent her brother usually uses for our trips.
Please let your manager know that we would probably not have used your company if not for you. Bamboo Travel is new to us and in a foreign country, so we had doubts as to what to expect. Your service was excellent from start to finish which really gave us confidence in your company. We had a little bit of an unusual itinerary and some constraints related to our other China travel prior to this tour. You were able to work through all of our issues with fast responses to our questions.
You also went what I would say was above and beyond expectations. The final example of that is a friend in the US was shipping some things to our hotel in Beijing for me to bring home to her. I contacted you to confirm the hotel name before they shipped the items, expecting I would then have to figure out the shipping details. Your reply not only confirmed the hotel, but you provided the shipping info in both English and Chinese, which saved me the hassle of trying to figure which address to use. Not a huge thing, but it's those small things that add up to a big difference in customer experience.
Thanks again for everything!
Xian:
Our guide was Waldner and we liked him from the start. We were just coming off another tour with another company which had maybe the best tour leader we've ever had. Even though we were always comparing Waldner measured up well. He was great at explaining the history of places we visited as well as answering our cultural questions. The restaurants/food were very good. He and the driver also modified the itinerary somewhat to optimize the driving based on our arrival and departure times and locations. We liked the hotel in Xian. The car (van) was very comfortable. Waldner also helped arrange tickets for a night show for us.
Beijing:
Pickup was great; even though we got in late the guide that picked us up was there and actually met us at the track. Cindy was our guide and we really liked her also. She is very knowledgeable and willing to answer (a lot of) questions. This was my 3rd time in Beijing and it was amazing what a difference having a good guide made. Cindy and the driver also modified the itinerary to optimize the driving. She also helped us book tickets to two shows, one of which was not on your list of optional items (Lao She tea house). Cindy was concerned about us ordering a cab so she stayed at the show to make sure we got back to our hotel ok. The restaurants/food were very good. The hotel was good but not great; for example we had hot water issues every day, and when I went to pick up a package that was shipped to me they just left me to dig through a pretty large pile of packages all addressed in Chinese.
To wrap up, I would rate the overall experience of looking for a trip, picking a company, and traveling 9.5 out of 10. Shirley, your service was 10 out of 10.
See you next trip!
Terry
Dear Rita,
Feedback.
The trip organised by Rita Jiang to Beijing and Xian was very well planned and enjoyable, showing the best of Chinese history, culture, heritage, and enormous progress.Your 2 guides, Linda Chua and Beryl are very good. Linda went out of her way to take us to Peking Opera at night. The kids were tired, so we did not go to Summer palace and Heavenly temple, and did not go to Xian Pagoda. It was our choice, so its ok. (I have been to all)
The 2 bus drivers were excellent, very careful, disciplined and good temperament and helpful. I could not give a tip to Beryl at Xian station, as I had to rush into toilet inside, and did not know she could not enter the train Station.
The pace was good, but the last day of train from Xian, to hotel (plus late dinner scrabbling in Beijing), then early next morning to airport was too Hectic. However, it was because we had to return on 8.12.24. we wish we could stay longer in Xian, and elsewhere. We could probably have gone to Xian by train, then fly back to Beijing by plane, but one way tickets could cost much more.
Anyway, thank you very much for all your fine arrangements. We all enjoyed the short trip.
For the kids, the major highlights were the Great Wall, Terracotta warriors, Acrobatic show. They will treasure. I will plan more trips for them to China.
Best wishes and warm regards,
Richard
excellent assistance, helpfulness and courtesy. My contact 'was Shirley, prepared friendly and punctual. Highly recommended...
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Dujiangyan Panda Loving Care Cleaning Work
Dujiangyan Panda Loving Care Work - Prepare Bamboo
Dujiangyan Panda Loving Care Work
The above arrangements will be adjusted according to the specific situations and the Panda Loving Care may be delayed or inaccessible by inevitable requirements, control, and Force Majeure like earthquakes, epidemic...
To participate the loving care program, you should apply for at least a week (usually 10 days) in advance with your Application Form and Health Examination Form.
(a) Health Examination Form: To do the Panda Loving Care at Dujiangyan Panda Base, you need to have a valid Health Examination Form (valid medical certificate and signature which could be applied in your country or in China). Feel free to contact our travel consultant for more information or let them register for you. (This form is to ensure that you are not carrying the infectious diseases or other illnesses which endanger the health of pandas.)
(b) Age & Number Limitations: The center can accept up to 50 Participants (aged between 8 and 70) at any one time.
(c) Avoid Using Strong Smell: For pandas have keen sense of smell, Participants should avoid using perfume or other odorous articles like mosquito repellent liquid, nail polish, skin care products, makeups, etc. on the Panda Loving Care workday.
(d) Dressing Code: During the Panda Loving Care, you are required to wear working suites provided by the panda base, usually jumpsuits in cold days and T-shirts in warm and hot days. Shoes are up to you, but avoid sandals, slippers, high-heels, etc.
(e) Healthy Bodies: To well protect giant pandas, Participants are required to be healthy, and people who are suffering from illness, like a cold, fever, influenza, and other infectious diseases are not suitable to do the Panda Loving Cares.
Essentially Speaking, the Panda Loving Care belongs to panda conservation project designed with different kinds of activities to take care of giant pandas. During the full day loving care activities, travelers need to involve in some physical work, like clean up the dirty enclosures, sweep panda droppings, break bamboo to prepare food for pandas, use your hands to make panda cakes...It will be physical demanding and somewhat tiring.
| Panda Base | Length | Distance from Chengdu | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dujiangyan Panda Base | 1 day | 62 kilometers (1-1.5 hours) | the closest panda base from Chengdu; over 40 pandas live here. |
| Bifengxia Panda Base | 1 day / 3 days or longer | 155 kilometers (2.5-3 hours) | awesome site to do loving care program for 2 days or more; over 40 pandas live here. |
| Shenshuping Panda Base | 1 day | 100 kilometers (2 hours) | located in Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries in primitive environment; the largest breeding center for giant pandas; over 30 pandas live here. |
| Hetaoping Panda Base | 1 day | 120 kilometers (2.5 hours) | the only base to attend Red Panda loving care program. |
(a) For panda lovers who have very limited time in Chengdu, it is recommended to visit Chengdu Panda Base which is located in the northeast of Chengdu suburb with 30 minutes’ drive. Travelers can see nearly 120 giant pandas & baby pandas, as well as 76 red pandas. (PS: No Panda Loving Care is provided in this base.)
(b) To participate the one-day Panda Loving Care, you’d better go to Dujiangyan Panda Base which is chosen by 80% - 90% Participants.
(c) If you want to experience something different in a relatively primitive environment, Shenshuping Panda Base or Bifengxia Panda Base is a good choice to do the loving care program.
Every year during March to May, the pandas would seek for other pandas to mate by climbing the trees and fighting. In the late summer and autumn, they give birth to baby pandas and travelers can see the little cute being taken care in the Sunshine Nursery. If you want to see the active scene of giant pandas, come in spring. While to see the newborn pink baby pandas, it is recommended to visit Chengdu during August to September.
Besides the pandas bases in Sichuan Province, travelers can pay visits to see the adorable giant pandas in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Guilin, Guangzhou, and more cities of China. No matter is your first-trip to China with a few destinations, or your in-depth visit to see giant pandas, just feel free to tell us your ideas and likes, our professional travel experts will customize the China PANDA tour for you!
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