3 Days Wolong Giant Panda Volunteer and Panda Habitat Exploration Tour

Tour Outline: Chengdu - Wolong (Gengda) - Chengdu

3 Days Wolong Giant Panda Volunteer and Panda Habitat Exploration Tour

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Trip Overview

Wolong National Nature Reserve is the best place in the world for giant panda breeding, research, and panda wild nature training, etc. The entire nature reserve resembles a gigantic bio-gene bank. It is home to as many as 4000 plants and 2000 kinds of wildlife. Throughout the tour, tourists can be a panda volunteer and learn how to take care of pandas in the research center. As you track the wild pandas in the wood, you will learn more about the pandas’ habitat and their mysterious life. The tour would be an informative and much meaningful experience.

Transportation: public tour bus for 1-5 people; private car for 6 and more people;

Group Size: Max 6 in each group.

Please Note: It's a pity that trek in the forest of Wolong Nature Reserve is not available now. But you can still join in the panda volunteer program in Wolong. Just check our popular 2-day Chengdu to Wolong Panda Volunteer Tour to take the rare chance to get close to the lovely pandas.

Start: Chengdu
Physical Demands: Easy to moderate, suitable for all level of fitness, adult (age 18-55)
End: Chengdu
Best Time to Visit: All year round
Destination: Chengdu - Wolong (Gengda) - Chengdu
Tour Type: Private tour

Highlights

[Wolong Panda Base] Take photos with a cute Giant Panda at Wolong Panda Research Center without disturbing of noisy tourists;
[Wolong Panda Volunteer] Take care of cute pandas, make cakes for them, and to learn more about giant panda.

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: Transfer from Chengdu to Wolong Panda Research Center

Giant panda in winter

Lovely giant panda in Wolong Panda Research Cente

The tour bus will pick up clients at 8:00 for free within the 2rd ring road in Chengdu. And get you transferred from Chengdu to Wolong Panda Research Center. Then in the afternoon, we are about to visit the panda compound within the nature reserve.

(Notice: The private car is used only when there are at least 6 tourists in the group. If there are fewer than 6 tourists, you have to use the public tour bus to Wolong from Chengdu)

Stay overnight in hotels in Gengda

Day 2: Panda Care Activities in Panda Research Center

Taking photos for cute pandas

Feed panda with staff

In the morning, we will head to Panda Research Center to get gears and register for panda care. Then, led by professional panda keeper, you will enter the panda rooms and clean the leftovers of bamboo, and his roomand remove panda dung. In the meantime, you will learn much knowledge of panda care and panda behavior and his natural habitat.

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

After lunch, we will learn how to make steamed corn bread (窝窝头), and later feed pandas with them. Next, volunteers will watch documentaries teaching pandas how to return to the wild

Stay overnight in hotels in Gengda

Day 3: Trek in the pristine forest of Wolong Nature Reserve and Transfer back to Chengdu

Tour the natural habitat of giant pandas

Staff feed pandas in Wolong Panda Base

In the morning (9:00), we will meet at Panda Research Center and the trekking guide will help us warm up and pack up the trekking gears and get ready for the exploration in the pristine forest. Then we will follow the panda research guide and professional guide to tour the natural habitat of giant pandas.

As you trek in the forest, the professional guide will teach us how to spot the wild panda dung and other wildlife’s and how to tell their species according to animals’ dung and the sound they make. For the lunch, we will have a picnic in the woods. And later keep tracking the wildlife. At around 17:00, we will head back to Panda Research Center and later go back to hotel and get luggage and head back to Chengdu.

The tour ends.

Kind Reminder:
1. As you trek in the forest, follow the instruction of the guide. Stay close and never venture into unknown trails. Never leave the team randomly; otherwise you shall bear the responsibility.
2. For the out-door trekking, you need to buy the life insurance yourself.
3. To be able to trek in the forest, one needs to be healthy and physically strong. If you have health problems, never hide it. Otherwise, It might lead to accident and you have to assume the full responsibility.
4. If any unforeseeable circumstances such as bad weather, natural disaster, etc, occur, we will offer alternative plans or postpone the tour, for safety concerns. We will inform the tourists in the first place.

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;