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Dujiangyan Panda Base Tours and Activities
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China’s Dujiangyan Panda Base focuses on rehabilitation, disease prevention, and public education for the conservation of the endangered giant panda, one of the rarest species in the world. Tour the panda hospital, enclosures, and educational center for the opportunity to spot dozens of pandas munching on bamboo and playing.
The Basics
The sprawling 126-acre site is divided into six separate zones dedicated to various areas of research and care. Choose from among a range of experiences at the Dujiangyan Panda Base, which spans 40 sets of enclosures, a panda hospital, a medical lab, and an educational center with a small auditorium and interactive displays covering the center’s rescue and rehabilitation efforts.
The most popular tour option is to volunteer for a day. After a physical exam to ensure you’re safe to work with the fragile bears, you’ll be outfitted in work garments and work alongside dedicated panda experts to observe and record animal behavior, clean enclosures, prepare food for the pandas, and simply explore the base.
Things to Know Before You Go
How to Get There
The Dujiangyan Panda Base is located about 34 miles (55 km) from Chengdu city center. The best way to get there is to join a guided tour from Chengdu with included round-trip transportation.
When to Get There
The panda base is open daily from 8:30am to 5pm. Arrive early and book any special experiences in advance to avoid disappointment on the day. If possible avoid visiting on weekends and Chinese national holidays when the base can get particularly busy with domestic tourists.
The Pandas of Dujiangyan
The animals who live at the Dujiangyan Panda Base are there for a variety of reasons. Most are being cared for as elderly, disabled, sick, injured, or vulnerable wild pandas on the road to recovery, but some may be healthy pandas being held in quarantine before or after they leave the country.
The Basics
The sprawling 126-acre site is divided into six separate zones dedicated to various areas of research and care. Choose from among a range of experiences at the Dujiangyan Panda Base, which spans 40 sets of enclosures, a panda hospital, a medical lab, and an educational center with a small auditorium and interactive displays covering the center’s rescue and rehabilitation efforts.
The most popular tour option is to volunteer for a day. After a physical exam to ensure you’re safe to work with the fragile bears, you’ll be outfitted in work garments and work alongside dedicated panda experts to observe and record animal behavior, clean enclosures, prepare food for the pandas, and simply explore the base.
Things to Know Before You Go
- The panda base is a must-visit for animal lovers and families with kids.
- Book tours and activities in advance of arriving; the base allows a daily limit of 30 volunteers.
- Volunteer experiences at the panda base generally last between 6 and 9 hours.
The Dujiangyan Panda Base is located about 34 miles (55 km) from Chengdu city center. The best way to get there is to join a guided tour from Chengdu with included round-trip transportation.
When to Get There
The panda base is open daily from 8:30am to 5pm. Arrive early and book any special experiences in advance to avoid disappointment on the day. If possible avoid visiting on weekends and Chinese national holidays when the base can get particularly busy with domestic tourists.
The Pandas of Dujiangyan
The animals who live at the Dujiangyan Panda Base are there for a variety of reasons. Most are being cared for as elderly, disabled, sick, injured, or vulnerable wild pandas on the road to recovery, but some may be healthy pandas being held in quarantine before or after they leave the country.
Address: Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, Southwest China, China
Admission: Varies
43 Tours and Activities to Experience Dujiangyan Panda Base
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Private Dujiangyan Panda Base Panda Rescue Center Volunteer for a Day
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Get up close to giant pandas during a private tour of the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center from Chengdu. Volunteer alongside dedicated animal keepers to record behavior, clean enclosures and prepare food for the adorable mammals. Ensure the endangered species continue to prosper in the wild and in enclosures with your valued support and gain fascinating insight into the behavior and physiology of the animals. Capture photgraphs with the pandas to immortalize you memories (own expense) and enjoy a traditional Chinese lunch and convenient round-trip transportation on this tour.
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USD307.00
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USD307.00
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Private Day Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteering from Chengdu
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Get an insider look at taking care of Giant Pandas during this full-day tour to the Dujiangyan Panda Base. As a volunteer, you help the panda keepers clean the enclosures and feed the animals. Then learn more about China’s conservation efforts and the biology of these gentle giants with a panda movie. Enjoy a delicious lunch and take many memorable photos of these endangered animals to enjoy for many years.
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USD346.67
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USD346.67
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Panda Keeper Experience
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Chengdu’s most famous residents aren’t human, they’re pandas. With this private tour, enjoy a customized day interacting with these black and white bears at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Design your own experience with options to help a panda keeper in their daily tasks, snap photos of the pandas under staff supervision, or simply observe red and giant pandas in their enclosures.
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USD81.00
USD9.00 savings
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USD81.00
USD9.00 savings
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Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer Tour
This tour is an ideal choice for animal lovers—you’ll spend a day in the company of giant pandas and will help to contribute to a great cause. Take the stress out of planning transport by having hotel pickup and drop-off included. It’ll be a hassle-free day with entrance tickets, lunch, and bottled water provided. Once you get to Dujiangyan Panda Base, you’ll be given a special uniform, and then learn how to clean panda enclosures, take notes, understand panda behavior, and prepare panda food.
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USD412.83
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From
USD412.83
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Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
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Private Volunteer Program At Dujiangyan Panda Rescue Center For A Day Including Lunch
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Animal lovers—this one’s for you. Spend a day learning how to be a volunteer at Dujiangyan Panda Rescue Center. You won’t have to worry about organizing how to get to the panda base, as hotel pickup and drop-off is included. If you haven’t volunteered before, you’ll learn everything you need to on the day. Animal keepers will teach you how to record behavior, prepare food, clean, and care for pandas.
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USD172.31
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From
USD172.31
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Giant Panda Hometown and Taoist Mountain Discovery From Chengdu
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Visit Chengdu Giant Panda Research and Breeding Center also known as Panda Base, home for giant panda, red pandas, black-necked cranes, golden monkeys, and flocks of wild birds, explore one of the most famous Taoist mountains - Qingcheng Mountain. Escorted by private tour guide, this full-day tour takes you to observe the panda families and enjoy the natural beauty.
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USD243.59
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From
USD243.59
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
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Private Day Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Base and Irrigation Project
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Visit two of China’s most unique attractions during this double-duty day trip from Chengdu. Get insider access to the world-famous Panda Base, a research and conservation center. Upgrade to have a photo taken with a panda for the ultimate souvenir. Top off your visit with a stop at the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project, one of China’s most ancient dam systems. Tours include private hotel pickup and a tasty Chinese lunch.
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USD177.00
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From
USD177.00
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Chengdu Private Tour of Dujiangyan Panda Base and Qingcheng Hot Springs, Including Lunch
See giant pandas at one of China’s leading panda centers and bathe in hot springs on this 8-hour private tour from Chengdu. Visit the Dujiangyan panda rescue, breeding, and conservation base, and view the resident pandas as you learn about the center’s work. Then, after a Chinese lunch, relax at a hot springs complex, soaking in indoor and outdoor pools among subtropical gardens. Includes entrance fees, private transport, and central hotel pickup and drop-off.
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USD214.76
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From
USD214.76
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Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer Experience Trip
Dujiangyan Panda Base offers the program allowing visitors to administer to lovely Giant Pandas in person as volunteers. Get the special opportunity to volunteer at one of China's top panda rehabilitation programs on this experience, including panda food making, panda enclosures cleaning and panda feeding, this panda experience will surely be one of the most memorable experiences of your life.
Highlights:
See lovely furry giant pandas at Dujiangyan Panda Base
Spend full day to have a Giant Pandas volunteer experience
Gain once-in-a-lifetime memory with China Giant Pandas
Informative, friendly and professional local tour guide
Private tour is operated with just your party exclusively
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USD208.00
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From
USD208.00
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Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
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Dujiangyan Panda Base and Mt.Qingcheng one day tour
Dujiangyan Panda base is close to the panda's wild habitat area. here you will see some pandas back from overseas such as Baobao( which had been in Washington D.C until 2017 and Taishan which was born in Smith National Zoo in Washington D.C, US)
Mt.Qingcheng is very beautiful for view and good for hiking . the movie Kungfu Panda crew got much inspiration from Mt.Qingcheng.
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USD167.18
From
USD167.18
1-Day Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer Program Group Tour from Chengdu
Visit highlights of Chengdu including the Dujiangyan Panda Base volunteer program and Dujiangyan Mount Qingcheng with this self-guided day tour from Chengdu.
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USD306.67
From
USD306.67
Panda Keeper program
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Animal lovers—this is an great choice for a close encounter with wildlife. Spend a day learning what it takes to be a panda keeper. It’ll give you access to experiences you wouldn’t get with standard admission, such as seeing baby pandas up close, preparing panda food, feeding pandas by hand, cleaning enclosures, and learning about panda behavior, and special research projects.
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USD63.59
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From
USD63.59
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Full Day Panda Volunteer Experience in Dujiangyan Panda Base
7：00-8:40
Pick up and go to Dujiangyan Panda Base
8:40-9:00
Complete registration procedure; put on the work suit and gloves, wear the volunteer pass card.
9:00-10:00
Start to clean the cages and enclosure ,as well as cracking bamboos,carry out the leftovers, etc.
10:00-11:00
Walk around other panda enclosures to see the adorable black and white animals
11:00-11:30
Feed the panda with bamboo or other food, like carrot, panda cake and apple.
11:30-13:00
Lunch break
13:00-14:00
Watch a panda documentary to learn more about the scientific facts and the life of panda.
14:00-15:00
Clean cages and feed pandas again
15:00-15:30
Make panda cakes and be issued the certificate of panda volunteer
15:30-17:00
Drive back to downtown Chengdu
Pls notice that this is a rough schedule for the day tour, it may be affected by the panda’s conditions.
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USD272.83
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From
USD272.83
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1-Day Private Panda Keeper Volunteer Experience in Dujiangyan Panda Base
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Take in the highlights of Chengdu on this private full-day tour and enjoy the undivided attention of your private guide. Admire China’s famous Giant Pandas at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Center, visit the prestigious Sichuan University, and get a taste of local city life at Wangjianglou Park.
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USD335.39
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USD335.39
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Panda Volunteer Porgram at Dujiangyan Panda Base with Private Guide & Transfer
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Doing panda volunteer program is the most meaningful thing to well protect the lovely Giant Pandas with our own hands. If you want to join, the best and closest base is Dujiangyan Panda Base, about 62 kilometers away from Chengdu downtown. Dujiangyan Panda Base is not only a good place to do volunteering work, but also a well-managed base to see numerous pandas at different ages.
What will you do in your full day panda volunteer program? The panda volunteering usually lasts from 08:30 to 16:00. Volunteers can turn out to be “Honorable Keeper”, “Panda Nutritionist” and “Love Feeder” to take care of the cuddly giant pandas. Most importantly, you have got twice chances to feed the pandas in very close distance.It will definitely be rare precious experience in your whole life.
This tour includes private car transferring to the base from Chengdu/back to Chengdu, private tour guide, lunch and etc. (Note: Health Examination Certificate is needed before taking this program.)
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USD144.62
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From
USD144.62
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One Day Trip to Panda Base and Dujiangyan Irrigation Project
Early in the morning our driver and guide will pick you up at your hotel. You will drive about 1.5 hours to Dujiangyan Panda Base. You will be guided through visiting the different enclosures of Dujiangyan Panda Base, where you may not only see adult pandas, but also newly born baby pandas if luck enough. We spend whole morning walking around this area to see different pandas playing in the enclosures or on the trees.
After our tour in the Panda Base, we will drive about 30 minutes to Dujiangyan City; Later, enjoy your lunch in a local restaurant and continue to visit the Dujiangyan Irrigation System honored as the 'Treasure of Sichuan'. It is the oldest and only surviving no-dam water conservancy project in the world, and it has been functioning for more than two thousand years. Explore this magnificent irrigation system with your guide to learn the history and its crucial role.
Afterwards, drive back to downtown to conclude the full day sightseeing.
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USD172.31
Price varies by group size
From
USD172.31
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Chengdu Private Day Tour to Qingcheng Mountain and Dujiangyan Wolong Panda Base
Escape the bustle of the city and discover the picturesque locations outside of Chengdu on this double-duty, full-day excursion. First, visit the UNESCO-listed sites of Qingcheng Mountain, which is considered as the birthplace of China’s Taoism. Hike and use the convenient cable car to discover major temples, pavilions and other attractions, learn about Taoism's belief, history and soul. Then, head to Dujiangyan Wolong Panda Base to see the Giant pandas including new born babies, teenagers and adult pandas. Learn about the different stages of panda’s life from infancy to adulthood at the Panda Museum. This private tour including English speaking tour guide, travel by private air-conditioned vehicle, entrance fee, round trip cable car, lunch and door-to-door hotel transfers.
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USD233.85
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From
USD233.85
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Chengdu Private Day Tour: Du jiang yan Panda Base and Qingcheng Mountain
The Panda is the Highlights in Chengdu tour,Dujiangyan Panda Paradise is the only research institute in China that focused on panda disease prevention and control and field rescue. which are fully open to the public, with a total of 40 sets of panda shelters. After watching the lovely panda, we will take a bus to Qingcheng Mountain Area, which is a world cultural heritage, a holy place of Taoism in the world. One of the birthplaces of Taoism in China. The Tour time is about 4 hours. After the tour, professional drivers will send you back to the hotel in Chengdu. Finish the day trip.
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USD59.94
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From
USD59.94
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Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travellers
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Private 2-Day Dujiangyan Tour
There’s more to Sichuan than Chengdu. And UNESCO has recognized Mt. Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System with World Heritage status. Tour engineering wonders first built over 2,000 years ago, stroll among Taoist sculptures, and volunteer with giant pandas at the Dujiangyan Panda Base on this private guided overnight adventure. Includes guide, meals, hotel, and 2-way door-to-door transfers.
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USD583.59
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From
USD583.59
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All Inclusive Private Dujiangyan Panda Volunteer Day Tour
Located in Daguan Town of Dujiangyan City in Sichuan Province, Dujiangyan Panda Base is inhabited a lot of adorable pandas. The base provides one-day panda keeper tour for visitors, and you will have a great pleasure to get close to those cute creatures. Your tender loving care and generous donation are the great help to protect this vulnerable species in the base. As a panda keeper, you will provide useful service in daily activities, such as to clean panda enclosures, make panda cakes, prepare fruits, and feed pandas. You will also learn more knowledge about pandas’ habit and their state of health. We make sure this tour will create an unforgettable memory for you.
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USD285.13
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From
USD285.13
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One Day Trip to Panda Base and Taoist Mt Qingcheng
Early in the morning We will drive about 1.5 hours to Dujiangyan Panda Base. We spend whole morning walking around this area to see different pandas playing in the enclosures or on the trees.
Before our afternoon hike in the mountain, we will go to nearby tea house to enjoy a Chinese Tea Ceremony for a break, and then we will start our hike. The mountain is great for a half day trip. Trekking up and down the mountain takes around 3-4 hours to complete depending on your hiking speed. The hike takes you up the mountain and through many different Taoist temples. We will choose the cable car up and down which makes our hiking much more easier.
Once we get to the top, you may find the view is pretty amazing from Laojun Pavilion. You can see Mount Qingcheng’s many different peaks and neighboring temples in the distance.
After that we will walk down to the bottom along the same way and meet our driver there, go back to downtown Chengdu, the end of trip.
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USD185.00
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From
USD185.00
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Chengdu Private Day Tour: Giant Panda Base and Qingcheng Mountain
Have your private day tour with a local insider in Chengdu, visit Chengdu Giant Panda Research and Breeding Center also known as Panda Base, take cable car to explore one of the most famous Taoist mountains at Qingcheng Mountain. Discover Chengdu in your way and make full use of your time to gain the best travelling experience on this all-inclusive private tour.
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USD243.59
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From
USD243.59
Price varies by group size
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
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Dujiangyan Panda Keeper Program from Chengdu
Dujiangyan Panda Keeper Program is a great experience for panda lovers around the world!
Indulge yourself in the charm of chubby pandas during one-day volunteer program in Dujiangyan Panda Base where you are able to clean up panda enclosures, make your own panda cakes and watch a documentary movie about pandas. What's more, hand feed pandas yourself! Don't miss the chance to have an up-close encounter with the most lovable creature- giant pandas in Chengdu.
There is a daily quota of 60 volunteers for the Panda Keeper Program. Please inquire and book soon to secure your place.
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USD312.83
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From
USD312.83
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One Day Panda Keeper Volunteer in Dujiangyan
Opportunities to work as a panda keeper are few and far between outside of China, so this one-day volunteer opportunity is a must-do experience for every panda fanatic visiting Sichuan Province. Learn all about these iconic animals and the day-to-day work of a panda keeper during your day at the Dujiangyan Panda Base, participating in the animals’ care and enrichment.
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USD281.26
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USD281.26
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