2 Days Dujiangyan Panda Tour

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Overview

Dujiangyan, a county neighboring Chengdu with long history, is famous for the well-known Dujiangyan Irrigation Project. It has become a hot spot for tourists having finished Chengdu city tour. The 2-day Dujiangya panda tour comprises all the highlights of Dujiangyan, allowing you to take care of the chubby giant pandas intimately in the panda base for a day and appreciate the breathtaking scenery in Qingcheng Mountain. The grand Dujiangyan Irrigation Project will also leave you astonished at the the wisdom and architectural skill of Chinese ancient people. Just follow our step and enjoy now!

Start: Chengdu
Physical Demands: Easy, suitable for all level of fitness
End: Chengdu
Best Time to Visit: All year round
Destination: Chengdu - Dujiangyan Panda Base - Dujiangyan Irrigation System - Qingchengshan - Chengdu
Tour Type: Private tour

Highlights

[Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer] Take care of cute pandas, make cakes for them, and to learn more about giant panda;
[Dujiangyan Irrigation System] Visit the oldest and only surviving no-dam irrigation system in the world;
[Qingcheng Mountain] Experience the culture of Taoism in the Taoism birthplace and enjoy the fresh air in the forest.

Day by Day Itinerary

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Day 1: Dujiangyan Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer

Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer

Dujiangyan Pandas Base

In this special day, you will get a rare chance to have an intimate contact with giant pandas in Dujiangyan Panda Base as a volunteer.

In the early morning, your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Chengdu and drive 64km away to the Dujiangyan Panda Base. In the base, you will get a uniform, gloves, and a volunteer’s card. Your guide will introduce you to the professional panda keepers who can speak simple English. Your guide will be there all the time to help you to translate and take memorable photos with the adorable pandas.

During your work, you need to clean panda enclosures. Panda keepers need to supply fresh bamboos 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. Besides, you also need to feed pandas, offering them 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.

In the noontime, you will have lunch and take a rest in the base. You will also see a special documentary (40 minutes) about how the shy pandas mate, give birth, grow up, and are returned to the wild.

In the afternoon, you will continue your work to do more cleaning and feeding, and learn to make panda’s cakes. The bamboo you supplied in the morning will have become dry by the afternoon. You should remove and replace it with fresh bamboo and then feed the pandas with some more panda cakes and apples. Having fed the pandas with panda cakes, aren’t you curious as to 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.

At about 4:00pm, your volunteer work will end and you will receive a certificate for this unforgettable day. Say goodbye to the pandas you take care of and drive back to the hotel in Dujiangyan.

Stay overnight in Dujiangyan

Day 2: Dujiangyan Tour: Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Qingcheng Mountain

Dujiangyan Irrigation Project

Qingcheng Mountain

In the morning after breakfast, we will go to see the world famous Dujiangyan Irrigation Project during which you can have a short break on the vehicle. Dujiangyan is a great engineering paralleled to the Great Wall in the civilization history of China. It is the only oldest grand water conservancy engineering in the world so far that piloted the water without a dam. Yu Zui, Feishayan and Baoping Estuary are three projects inseparably interconnected, addressing problems of automatic bypass flow, desilting, and water inlet control of the river in a scientific way. In over two thousands years, the ancient weirs have lead surging Minjiang River into the vast Chengdu plain, creating a rich and beautiful “heavenly state”where people control the water. Climbing on the Yulei Pavilion, you will have a bird’s eye view of the whole Dujiangyan project.

After lunch, you will have a short break and then continue to climb Qingcheng Mountain, right in the behind of Dujiangyan. Known as “the most tranquil place”since ancient times, Mount Qingcheng was the origin of Taoism of China with thousand stairs leading to tranquility. In 2000, Qingcheng Mountain was identified as World Cultural Heritage and the first batch of national 5A scenic area.The ancestral mountain and ancestral hall in Tianshi Path has gathered the essence of Taoist culture. With mountains in four sides, the hills, brooks, valleys and temples are hidden in the lush woods. You will obtain inner peace and embrace the nature in this tranquil mountain. After sightseeing, drive back to Chengdu.

Notice:
1. Volunteer activities charge for 700 RMB per day. You need to book it in advance and pay down payment for the tour.
2. The age limit for the volunteering program is 12 years and above.
3. Your latest health check report should be provided.
4. Please do not make noises or sudden movements that might startle the pandas.
5. It is advisable that you do not wear any strong smelling perfumes, deodorants, or creams as pandas are sensitive to smell.

The tour ends. You will be escorted to airport/train station for your flight/train to next destination or home.

Price Inclusions

Transportation

Private transportation to the destinations and sites listed in the itinerary; ranging from 4WD land cruiser to bus depending on the group size and trip route; car gasoline, road toll and in-transport refreshments (free bottles of water, air pillow and headscarf) are included;

Accomodation

Meals

Meals listed in the itinerary;

Service

Private experienced English-speaking trip leader;
Airport/railway station pick-up and send-off services at the beginning/end of the tour;
Entrance ticket fees for all the sight spots listed in the itinerary;
First aid kit;
A coverage of 300,000RMB Chartis travel insurance;

Price Exclusions

International and domestic flight/train to Shanghai (Note: we accept the domestic flight/train tickets booking to Shanghai from other cities in advance, check the updated ticket availibility and cost with your travel consultant);
Meals that are not specified in the itinerary (Averagely a meal in the 3rdpole region cost 3~10USD per person);
Tips and gratuities for the trip leader and driver;
The expense of a personal nature like alcoholic beverages, laundry, phone call, etc;
Optional activities and excursions not specified in the itinerary;
China Entry visa fees;