Top Chengdu Outdoor Activities

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 a photo while holding a baby panda, or simply observe red and giant pandas in their enclosures.

While visiting Chengdu, head out to the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center with a private guide for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to work with pandas up close. Help the keepers to feed and care for the endangered animals and learn all about the rare bears as you spend time in their company. Enjoy a morning and afternoon session with the pandas with a break in-between for lunch and a film about pandas. Wrap up your full-day private tour with a panda photo op and commemorative certificate.

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.

Spend a morning with some of China’s most majestic mammals during a 3-hour tour of either the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center or the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center from Chengdu. Accompanied by a professional panda keeper, stroll through the baby and adult panda areas and gain fascinating insight into the behavior, mating habits and physiology of the creatures. Upgrade available to have your photo taken while holding a baby panda if conditions are favorable. Round-trip transportation from your Chengdu included.

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.

Visit two UNESCO-listed Sichuan sights on a full-day private trip from Chengdu. Hike and ride a cable car up forested Mount Qingcheng, the birthplace of China’s Taoist religion. View the Shangqing Palace, temples, and lake, and learn how Qingcheng starred in the movie 'Kung Fu Panda 3.' Plus, visit the Dujiangyan project, the world’s oldest non-dam irrigation facility to see its ingenious 3rd-century BC design. Includes private transport, lunch, and central hotel pickup and drop-off.

Get the special opportunity to volunteer at one of China's top panda rehabilitation programs, Dujianyan Panda Base, on this 10-hour experience from Chengdu. Under the supervision of the center's staff, make panda food, clean the enclosures, and feed the pandas snacks. Buffet lunch and round-trip transportation from your Chengdu hotel are included.

Combine visits to Chengdu Tianfu Square, the Leshan Giant Buddha, and the Chengdu Panda Breeding Base in one full-day tour from Chengdu. Pickup and drop-off at select Chengdu hotels included.

Discover the cultural and historical highlights of Chengdu on an enriching full-day tour of the spectacular city. On this private tour, venture to the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding to spend several hours observing adorable pandas, and then absorb the sacred ambience of the Zen Buddhist monastery during a leisurely lunch. Sip refreshing tea at a traditional teahouse in the picturesque park, and then meander through the narrow alleys of Kuan and Zhai Lane for dinner. Upgrade to immerse yourself in the melodious magic of the Sichuan opera.

Combine a trip to the Chengdu Giant Panda Base with a visit to the Leshan Giant Buddha on this 9-hour private tour from Chengdu. With a private guide, travel via high-speed rail and private transfer. Entrance fees and lunch are included.

The Dujiangyan Panda Base runs a panda hospital, lab, and monitoring enclosures in Sichuan Province just outside of Chengdu. With this flexible day trip, customize your Giant panda experience by choosing how you spend your day. Upon arrival at the base, take a self-guided tour of the facilities, or upgrade your experience by volunteering with a panda caretaker or posing with a young panda during a photo op.

Wolong National Nature Reserve, one of China’s oldest and best known panda reserves, sits in Sichuan Province outside of Chengdu. With this tour, spend the day volunteering alongside professional panda keepers as you learn how to care for China’s famous black and white bears. Your bilingual guide will be by your side to translate the entire time.

Keep your camera to hand as you visit two of Chengdu’s most photo-worthy sites on this full-day tour – the UNESCO-listed Grand Buddha in Leshan and the Chengdu Panda Base.  Start your day getting close to China’s adorable native pandas, with the chance to spot Giant Pandas, Red Pandas and baby pandas. After lunch at a local restaurant (included), make the most of your private guide as you explore the Great Buddha temple and stand in awe before the world’s largest stone Buddha.

Discover the many wonders of Chengdu on a full-day private excursion. You enjoy the rare opportunity to hold a live panda at the Dujiangyan Panda Base. After a short photo opportunity, continue on to Wuhou Temple and Jinli Ancient Street. Explore each location with your guide and ask questions whenever you like.  Included transportation and entrance fees allow you to sit back and enjoy the adventure.

Combine two of Chengdu's top attractions, the Leshan Grand Buddha and the Chendgu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, on this private 10-hour trip departing from Chengdu. This private tour ensures a flexible itinerary and personal attention from your guide. Entrance fees and round-trip private transportation from your Chengdu accommodations included.

Enjoy personal attention and a customized itinerary during this 8-hour private tour to see Leshan Grand Buddha. This private tour includes lunch and entrance fees, as well as visits to the Wuyou Temple and the Lingyun Temple. Hotel pickup and drop-off in a private vehicle included.

Participate in panda conservation efforts by volunteering with the Dujiangyan Panda Base research and conservation center. During this 8-hour activity in Chengdu, you'll shadow the panda keepers and learn what caring and feeding for these iconic animals takes. Lunch, entrance fees, and round-trip transportation from your Chengdu hotel is included.

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.

Get up close to Chinese wildlife and ancient culture on a full-day tour from Chengdu. You have the option to take a private tour or join up with a group. Regardless, you relax in comfortable round trip transportation from your hotel.  Entrance is included to both the Leshan Grand Buddha and Chengdu Panda Base, where you also enjoy engaging tours with your guide.

Enjoy a full-day guided tour from Chengdu that combines giant panda bears with the Leshan Buddha and Wuyou Temple. Get great photo ops of China’s furry ambassadors at the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base while watching the adorable pandas. Then savor a lunch that features Xiba tofu (bean curd), a regional specialty. Afterward, take a scenic drive to Leshan to see the Grand Buddha, the largest stone Buddha sculpture in the world. You also stop at Wuyou Temple and can choose an optional river cruise (own expense).

The stone forests of South China are a vast, UNESCO-protected geological terrain, made up of rocky towers and spectacular caves. With pick-up in Kunming, this private tour provides an in-depth look at the stunning karst formations along with a visit to the nearby town of Jiuxiang. You’ll also discover the unique cultures of the local Sani people and enjoy a traditional roast duck lunch.

This is the perfect tour for animal lovers. Enjoy the ultimate stress-free day with round-trip transportation to Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base included. The research base can be a popular attraction, but you won’t have to worry about waiting in long visitor lines as entrance tickets are included. Enjoy having plenty of time to leisurely walk around the bamboo garden where roughly 80-100 pandas live.

Take a private full-day panda-themed tour from Chengdu. Based around China’s most famous animal, the tour begins with private transportation from your hotel to the Chengdu Research Base.  Enjoy complimentary admission and ample time to observe pandas in a protected environment. Go beyond the traditional panda stop and visit the functioning Panda Post Office. Then snap a photo at the largest panda sculpture in the world, before return to your hotel.

Explore China’s most impressive natural wonders and several UNESCO World Heritage sites on this 2-day tour from Jiuzhaigou-Huanglong Airport, including round-trip transfer service from airport to hotel and from hotel to airport in Jiuzhaigou area. Follow a private guided tour itinerary at the Huanglong valley National park and take photos of the Five-colored Pool and nuorilang waterfalls.This all-inclusive tour includes private car, driver, excellent English tour guide, lunch for 2 days and airport transfers.