4-Day Wolong In-Depth Panda Tour

Our personal guide and driver will be there waiting for you, whether you starts from the airport, railway station or hotel.

Hotel options:
Lia! Chengdu Hotel
Shangri-la Hotel Chengdu

It takes about three hours to drive the 120 km (75 miles) between Chengdu and Wolong.

A Short Break in Earthquake Memorial Site (½ Hour)

For a rest and to break up the long drive, you'll stop at the 2008 Earthquake Memorial Site.

A Safari in the Wild Pandas' Backyard with a Tibetan Guide (2½ Hours)

Have a simple local lunch at about 11:30am and meet your guide for the day. Along with your English guide, to ensure authenticity and safety, a Tibetan hiking guide will join you to help explore more about the habitat protection.

The gorge is an authentic natural edge habitat for wild giant pandas as well as other wild and rare animals, such as white-lipped deer and red pandas. The well-paved hiking trail is 5 kilometers (3 miles) long and the hike takes about 2–3 hours.

Dengsheng gorge

Learn from local Tibetan guide

Visit the Staff-Only Control Room and Have an Evening Date with Pandas (2 Hours)

After dinner in the canteen at Wolong Panda Center, enter the staff-only control room in the breeding area. If you visit the base in late summer, you will be able to observe mother pandas and their babies via monitors, and learn more about them from the panda keepers.

We will arrange an overnight room for you in the hostel that's near the panda center, allowing you to pay a nighttime visit to see the cute pandas without tourists and other noises, under the guidance of a panda keeper and your guide.

Observe pandas' acts in the stuff-only control room

Enjoy evening date with pandas without tourist and noise

Arrive at Wolong Panda Center at 8:30am so that your day as a panda keeper can begin. During the program, you will learn more about this endangered species and help to take care of pandas under the guidance of experienced staff.

Morning Cleaning and Feeding (2 Hours)

You will need to clean the panda enclosures then sweep out the leftovers and replace them with fresh bamboo, as well as clean out the feces. Take a break and tour around the panda base. Our guides are veritable panda lovers — they are familiar with the base and know a lot about pandas. Some of them have even hosted live cam feeds about pandas on Facebook and YouTube.

Feed a panda

Panda kindergarten of the base

Afternoon Keeper's Activities (3 Hours)

Have a lunch in the canteen with the base stuffs and enjoy a special documentary movie about a panda's life cycle .

Then more cleaning and feeding need to be done. Later you will make cakes for pandas with your own hands. At the end of the program you will receive a panda keeper certificate.

The program ends at around 4 pm, when you will begin the drive back to Chengdu. You'll reach your hotel at around 7 pm.

Clean pa nda's enclosure

Get a certificate

After breakfast, your private guide and driver will take you to the airport for your departure.