1 Day Dujiangyan Panda Volunteer Tour from Chengdu

7:00am: Hotel pick-up

In the early morning, your tour guide & driver will pick you up from your hotel in Chengdu and then drive to the Dujiangyan Panda Base.

8:30am-09:00am: Dujiangyan Panda Base Arrival

At the base, you will get a uniform, gloves, and a volunteer’s card with the assistance of your guide. Your guide will introduce you to the professional panda keepers. The panda keepers can speak simple English but your guide will be there for you at all times, helping to translate and taking memorable photos of you with the lovable pandas.

9:00am–10:00am: Clean the panda enclosures

Panda keepers need to supply fresh bamboo to these national treasures three times each day. The pandas usually eat only 30% of the bamboo, wasting 70% of it. You will need to sweep out the leftovers, replace it with fresh bamboo, and clean out the feces.

10:00am–11:00am: Take a break and tour around the panda base

Have a relaxing walk in the well-paved base and listen to the legendary stories of these pandas. You will also have a chance to meet the naughty red pandas.

11:00am–11:30am: Feed a panda

Pandas are supplied with panda cakes, apples, and carrots four times a day. The panda keepers will show you how to feed a panda with your own hands at close proximity.

11:30am–1:00pm: Have lunch and a rest in the base

1:00pm–2:00pm: Watch a panda movie for about 40 minutes

You will see a special documentary about how the shy pandas mate, give birth, grow up, and are returned to the wild.

2:00pm–3:30pm: More cleaning and feeding, and making panda’s cakes

The bamboo you supplied in the morning will become dry by the afternoon. Remove it and replace it with fresh bamboo. Then feed the pandas with some more panda cakes and apples. Having fed the pandas with panda cakes, aren’t you curious about how they are made? It is time to make some panda cakes with your own hands. The ingredients will be prepared in advance. Get creative about the shapes of the cakes.

3:30pm–4:00pm: Get a certificate, and drive back to Chengdu

The volunteer work ends here and you will receive a certificate for this unforgettable day. Say goodbye to the pandas you take care of. Your guide and driver will escort you back to your hotel in Chengdu.