6 Days Beijing Chengdu and Dujiangyan Panda Volunteer Tour

The beautiful scenery of Beihai Park
Giant Panda

Tour Outline: Beijing - Chengdu - Dujiangyan Panda Base - Chengdu

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Trip Overview

Visit the Forbidden City, where the Emperor lived for hundreds of years. Then Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beihai Park, and hike to the best section of Great Wall in Beijing.

Have a lifetime experience by taking this Panda Volunteer Tour! Smashing bamboo for Pandas, cleaning dorms for them, and the most exciting phase: feeding them! The cute Pandas will open its mouth, asking for bamboo, and you are the one to feed it!

Visit the famous Forbidden City, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beihai Park;
Interact with Pandas in a very close distance;
Take photos with Pandas real close.

Best Time to Visit

All year round
Physical Demands

Very leisure tour; zero physical demand

Day by Day Itinerary

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Day 1: Beijing Arrival

After arriving at Beijing Airport, your guide will welcome you at the airport. A private car will take you from the airport to the reserved hotel. The rest of the day free to do a little exploration at your leisure.

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Day 2: Beijing Day Tour: Forbidden City, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beihai Park

Forbidden City

Beihai Park

Today, you will head to visit the three famous attractions in Beijing, namely, Forbidden City, Imperial Ancestral Temple, and Beihai Park.

Forbidden City, the palace of emperors, marking the supreme power and authority. Here, you will see where emperors lived and how fancy the building is. You will see the magnificent and delicate structure built by hands hundreds of years ago.

In Imperial Ancestral Temple, you can see how emperors did ancestor worship, all kinds of implements are used for the emperor to worship their ancestors.

Finally, you will visit Beihai Park in the northwest of the Forbidden City. You can experience how ancient emperors walk in their imperial garden, walking on the trestle bridge, look down to the clear water, refreshing your body.

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Day 3: Beijing Day Tour: Mutianyu Great Wall

Mutianyu Great Wall in summer

Mutianyu Great Wall in autumn

Today you will visit Mutianyu Great Wall, a section of Great Wall a little bit less crowded than Badaling Great Wall. With the whole set of the Great Wall, ancient China proved to be an impregnable country. You will be amazed at the formation of ancient Chinese workers and the wisdom of the designers.

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Day 4: Take flight from Beijing to Chengdu

You will be escorted to airport, take the flight to Chengdu and be picked up at Chengdu Shuangliu Airport. Then, you can have a rest at the hotel or free explore the city.

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Day 5: Dujiangyan Panda Base Volunteer Tour

You may have a chance to feed the panda.

Pandas in Dujiangyan Panda Valley

7:00am Picked up by your tour guide
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 Arrive at the Dujiangyan Panda Base and sign up
In 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 four 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 that lasts 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 have 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 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.

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.

Notice:
A donation program that allows you to take pictures with a panda next to you for about one minute is not included in the Panda Volunteer Program. It is only available in Dujiangyan Panda Base and the donation amount is CNY1,800 per person. Only 30 tourists are allowed to take close-up photos with pandas each day. If you would like to do, please feel free to tell us or reserve 1 Day Dujiangyan Panda Holding Tour from Chengdu.

The age restriction of volunteer program is between 12 to 65 years old ( there is no restriction for holding a lovely panda ). Even though the pandas look harmless, they are carnivores. Parents must ensure that they prevent their children from coming into direct contact with the pandas.

If your children are between 2–11 years old, you can still take them with you during the program. Your guide will help to take care of them. If your children are under 2 years old and you take care of them throughout the day.

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Day 6: Chengdu Departure

Our driver will pick you up at the hotel, take you to airport and you can take flight off Chengdu on your own.

Price Details & Guide

Price Inclusions

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;
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;
Volunteer fees in Dujiangyan Panda Base;
Lunch at Panda Base;

Price Exclusions

International and domestic flight/train to Beijing/Chengdu (Note: we accept the domestic flight/train tickets booking to Chengdu 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;

Itinerary Alteration

Once we receive your tour deposit, which is followed by signing the contract, your reservation is secured with legitimacy. Our staff will reserve the accommodation, vehicle, site tickets, meals and more, and pay the deposit for our suppliers. So if you want to alter to another itinerary, you need to cover the deposit we've paid, while no service charge is needed if you make some changes on the itinerary you booked.

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you cancel the tour beacuse of your personal issues, you will be liable to pay cancellation charges that are bounded by 3rdpoletour.com cancellation policy as follows:

1.) If you cancel the tour more than 30 days before the trip starts, you will forfeit 10% of the total land cost per person;
2.) If you cancel the tour 15-30 days prior to your trip start date, 20% of your total land tour cost will be forfeited as a cancellation fee.
3.) If you cancel the tour 7-15 days before the trip starts, you will forfeit 30% of land cost.
4.) If you cancel the tour 7 days prior to your tour start date, you will forfeit 50% of land cost.
5.) If you fail to show up or cancel at your scheduled arrival time without prior notice or later than that, you will forfeit 100% of the land cost.

If the tour has to be cancelled because of the natural disaster or the government restrictions that is beyond both parties control, we will charge only USD50 per person, this is just the service fee and larbor fee during the preparation. This is a rare occurrence!

The cancellation fee charged by 3rdpoletour.com will be kept under your name (person who contacted us) for a usable period of 2 years. Within the applicable period you can use it for next time or you can kindly pass your authority to any of your family, friends or colleagues to use by booking a tour with 3rdpoletour.com. A certifying email from you is necessary to pass the cancellation fee to others, but it is only applicable for private group.