4 Days In-depth Bifengxia Panda Volunteer with Chengdu Charm

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Overview

3 days volunteer program at Bifengxia Panda Base is highly recommended to tourists who has enough time and wants to experience more about panda volunteer’s work. Compared with the 1 day panda keeper program, you will have another chance to do some research about the physical facts of giant pandas.

In Chengdu downtown, you’ll also experience the leisurely lifestyle of Chengdu people in Renmin Park, join in the prayers to make a wish in Wenshu Temple, and explore the colorful Chengdu folk culture in Jinli Ancient Street.

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

Highlights

[Wenshu Temple]See the local prayers worshiping and lighting incense;
[Renmin Park]Drink Chinese tea in the outdoor tea house, and to see how Chengdu people enjoy their life leisurely;
[Jinli Ancient Street]Be told what Sichuan looks like during the Qing Dynasty by the elegant style of the architectures;
[Bifengxia Panda Base Volunteer]Spend memorable 3 days with giant pandas. Take care of them and join in some meaningful research about them.

Day by Day Itinerary

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The itinerary is just for your reference. You can make your own tour by your schedule, and taste of hotel. You can tell us your tour plan to get more travel inspiration.

Day 1: Chengdu Tour: Wenshu Temple, Renmin Park, Jinli Old Street

Wenshu Temple

Renmin Park

In the morning after breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up in the hotel. The first stop of your Chengdu tour is Wenshu Temple, built in Sui Dynasty. It’s the most frequented temple in Chengdu. The temple was constructed in the style of traditional western Sichuan buildings and conserves many precious cultural relics and ten thousands of Buddhist scriptures and literature. Every day, there are many people coming for worship of Buddhas and praying. It’s said that one of the Buddha statues in the temple is in charge of helping people realize their dreams. Pray to this Buddha sincerely, your dream will come true within three weeks.

Next, you will spend some leisure time and rest in Renmin Park. It’s a time-honored park built in 1911 located in the central downtown. Wandering in this park, you will see why Chengdu is famous for its relaxing life throughout China. The park is filled with citizens practicing Tai Chi, appreciating flowers, taking photos, playing majiang, etc. Parallel of outdoor tea houses crowded with guests drinking teas and chatting with friends constitutes a special picture of the park. Sit down, order a pot of Chinese tea, make a casual chat with your friends and watch locals boating on the lake, your exhaustion will be eliminated.

After lunch, we will reach Jinli Ancient Street. Known as “the First Street in Shu Kingdom”, Jinli is one of the busiest streets in the history of Xishu, and now it is a commercial pedestrian street built with the architectural style of the traditional old town in western Sichuan Province in Qing Dynasty. Along the street are numerous stores selling special local products like Shu Embroidery, lacquer products, folk handicrafts, curios, or calligraphies and paintings of celebrities. Here you will experience colorful traditional folk cultures.

When you have finished your Jinli tour, we will leave from Chengdu to Ya’an Bifengxia Panda Base. It’s 155km away from Chengdu. When we arrive, you will register, get equipment, get to know how to do the daily work and make well preparation for the following 3-day volunteer work.

Stay overnight in Bifengxia

Day 2: Bifengxia Tour: Bifengxia Panda Base Volunteer

Bifengxia Panda Garden

Today your panda volunteer work begins with the cleaning activity. You are supposed to clean pandas’ enclosures, sweep out the leftovers, replace it with fresh bamboo, and clean out the feces.

Then, the staff will take you to visit the giant panda gardens to closely observe adorable pandas. From 11:00-12:00, you will be able to feed pandas with fresh bamboo, carrot, or panda cake.

During the noon, you can take a break and have lunch while conversing with the permanent employees. If you still have time, you can explore the base, talk with the employees, or even meet some cute pandas. From 1:00-2:00pm, you can go to the Panda Cinema to watch a short documentary to learn more about pandas.

In the afternoon, you will continue your work to do more cleaning and feeding, and learn to make panda’s cakes. The bamboos you supplied in the morning will have become dry by the afternoon. You should remove and replace them with fresh bamboos 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.

In the 4:00pm, your volunteer work will be done, and our guide will escort you back to your hotel for a rest.

Stay overnight in Bifengxia

Day 3: Bifengxia Tour: Bifengxia Panda Base Volunteer

Bifengxia Panda Base

In the morning, you will work as a Scientific Research Assistant to join in some research about panda and their drops to know about their physical facts and feel the hardship of the research of wild population of giant pandas.

In the lunchtime, you’ll enjoy your lunch in the staff canteen after which you can have a rest at the service center or watch science documentary about giant pandas.

In the afternoon, you’ll resume the important work of feeding pandas with their favorite panda cakes, bamboo shoots and fruits. During the break time, you can share your thoughts and experience with other volunteers and staffs and make summary of your relative tasks. And again, feed pandas you take care of for the second time and make panda cakes for them until you wrap your day work.

Stay overnight in Bifengxia

Day 4: Bifengxia Panda Base Volunteer

Bifengxia Panda Base

In the last day morning, you will attend a Panda Scientific Lecture to observe the behaviors of giant pandas at the base and preliminarily learn the method of behavioral study. When noontime approaches, you’ll have your lunch in the dining hall with staff. After that you can have a rest at the service center or watch a science documentary about giant pandas.

In the afternoon, you’ll resume the important work of feeding pandas with their favorite panda cakes, bamboo shoots and fruits. During the break time, you can share your thoughts and experience with other volunteers and staffs, and make summary of your relative tasks. And again, feed pandas you take care of for the second time. In about 4:00pm, your merry 3-day volunteer work will come to an end. You will get a certificate for your caring and attending of lovely giant pandas. You can take a photo at the base to record the treasured moment.

Optional Activity: If you are interested in planting fresh bamboos for giant pandas in the 3 days volunteer activity, you can replace the “Scientific Research Assistant” or the “Panda Scientific Lecture” item with the Bamboo Planting Item without extra payment.

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.

Then the tour ends. We will leave Bifengxia and drive back to Chengdu 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;