Spend your morning with the cutest, yet impressive, creatures in China! Visit the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center and take a guided tour of the facility. Tour through the baby and adult panda areas and visit the red panda section to see these small adorable animals. Choose the baby panda holding option and you’ll travel to the Bifengxia Panda Base to enjoy a unique chance of holding this lovable creature!

Highlights

  • Half-day tour of the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center
  • See the different stages of a giant panda’s life, from baby to young adult to adult
  • Visit the red panda area to see these quiet but territorial creatures
  • Optional baby panda holding photography session at the Bifengxia Panda Base!
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off included

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Half-Day Chengdu Panda Breeding Center Tour with Optional Baby Panda Holding

Sleeping Baby Panda at Panda Breeding Center

Spend your day with some loveable creatures that will never fail to capture your heart. A hotel pickup will take you to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, a non-profit research and breeding facility for giant pandas and other rare animals that strives to simulate a natural environment for these creatures.

Your expert guide will take you through the center to get a full overview of a panda’s development. Learn about the progression from a baby panda to a full grown panda with a visit to the baby panda area, where you’ll admire these small and delicate creatures. Despite their age and size, you’ll see how full of life and energy they are!

Then, head to the area that keeps the young adult pandas. Learn how adolescent pandas, between the ages of one and five, spend this important maturity period. Finally, you’ll witness the giant panda in all its full-grown glory at the adult area. Take pictures of these endangered species eating bamboo, sleeping and playing with one another.

At the red panda area, keep an eye out for the red pandas among the trees or stretched out on a branch with their legs dangling. Choose to feed and take photos with them (see more below). After a morning of admiring these lovable animals, you’ll be transported back to your hotel.

Upgrade to hold a baby giant panda!
Take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hold an adorable baby giant panda, which are six months to one year old, and get your photo taken! With this tour option, visit a different giant panda breeding facility, the Bifengxia Panda Base in Ya'an. Here, enjoy a similar tour to learn about the important and exciting work this center does in preserving pandas. Afterward, follow your guide to a panda enclosure where you will be able to hold a baby panda! This unique experience that lets you admire these rare, endangered creatures up close. Plus, all of the money will be donated to the non-profit Bifengxia Panda Base for research and development. Afterwards, you’ll become a member of the ‘Panda Club’ and receive an authentic donation certificate as a token of appreciation in helping to preserve this incredible species.

After your visit to Bifengxia, enjoy a delectable lunch of local Chengdu delicacies in a lovely restaurant nearby. Then, visit and explore the quaint streets of Shangli Ancient Town with your guide. Discover the old charm of this town which combines ancient residences and the natural scenery of China's countryside. End the tour with a drop-off at your hotel.


Recent Reviews of this Tour

5 star rating: Highly Recommended Reviewed by Amanda S, March 2013

Loved this tour. I had been dreaming about seeing the pandas since I can't remember. Booked to hold the panda, after all, I wasn't going to fly half way around the world to miss out. Our tour guide Carol picked us up from our hotel. There was just two of us. It was a long drive (2 hours each way to Wolong). We saw pandas almost straight off the zoo bus. They were far closer than I imagined they would be. There were many. It was fantastic. Carol took us to a few different locations and gave us some interesting information. We had our photo session locked in for 11am. I was very excited. Unfortunately, the panda was already on the seat and when I asked the person in charge if I could touch him (because here in Australia we do not just start touching wild animals without first checking) he said "NO". This was disappointing seeing as I booked a tour which said I could hold one, I paid for the opportunity and I had come all the way from Australia to do so but I accepted it. We were able to have photos for probably only 20 seconds and we only got 4 each which isn't really much. The next girl who came in after me just wrapped her arm around the panda but wasn't told off. This was very disappointing for me. Still, I saw many gorgeous pandas and the tour was well organised. We got dropped back off just as advertised.

5 star rating: Highly Recommended Reviewed by Janine A, February 2013

The tour was great! They picked me up right in front of my hotel. My tour guide spoke very good English, she was a delight. Thank you.

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