5-Days Chengdu In-Depth Tour Package For Panda Fans (Wolong, Dujiangyan, Giant Panda Base)

Day 1 Chengdu Arrival

Pick up service can be arranged at Chengdu airport or Chengdu train station by our guide, you will find a welcome sign "Chengdu Private Tour". You will be taken to your hotel in Chengdu city, our guide will help your to check in.

After a short break, follow our guide to visit the Jinli Ancient Street. It is a well-known pedestrian commercial street in Chengdu. It consists of large antique buildings with architectural styles of the late Qing Dynasty, and has a large number of bars and restaurants. Both sides of the street sell small ornaments with local characteristics and many old Chengdu craftmen can be seen busy blowing sugar paintings and dough figurines. The street also comes alive at night as red lanterns light up and visitors fill the bars and teahouses.You can fill your tummies with street food and head to the bars or teahouses after that for some alcohol or tea depending on your preferences.

After the tour, you will be taken back to your hotel.

Day 2 Chengdu-Dujiangyan

After breakfast, our guide will meet you at your hotel lobby and take you to Dujiangyan city. Once you arrive, you will spend an half day with the cute panda at the Dujiangyan Panda Base, also known as China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda Dujiangyan Base, the only giant panda care, disease prevention and control institute in the world. It is home to over 50 giant pandas, red pandas, and some other endangered species. Visit the nursery to see the highly successful breeding program, walk among the bamboo groves and shady walkways, and view the pandas at rest or play.

In the afternoon, you will have chance to visit the Dujiangyan Irrigation System. It is a major project of equal significance with the Great Wall in the history of Chinese civilization. The weir as a grand water conservancy project features water diversion without a dam, and is the only one that has survived through time and enjoys the longest history worldwide. It still plays a major role today. 

After the tour, transfer to your hotel in Dujiangyan city.

Day 3 Dujiangyan-Wolong

After breakfast, our guide will take you to Wolong Nature Reserve, you will visit the Dongsheng Gorge along the way. Follow our experienced tour guide to enjoy the natural landscape and hike through Dengsheng Gorge. It's an popular activity when people visit Wolong Nature Reserve, be sure to hike through Dengsheng Gorge with an altitude of 2,800 meters, an unspoiled fairyland packed with dense pristine forests where rare wild animals like wild pandas, black bear, white-eared pheasant, etc. inhabit. Stop along the way to soak up the natural scenes of winding streams, verdant mountains and luxuriant grasslands as you trek deeper into the Gorge. 

After the tour, transfer to your hotel inside the nature reserve park. Our guide will help you to check in your hotel.

Day 4 Wolong-Chengdu

Today, you will take a great chance to be a panda keeper at Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base. Never miss the chance to spend a whole day with those adorable giant pandas as a panda keeper if you enjoy your days in Wolong National Nature Reserve.

Our guide will meet you at your hotel lobby at 8:00am, lead you to the Panda program center and sign up there. You will get your own volunteer pass, and a working uniform and gloves, then follow your professional panda keeper to clean the pandas' enclosures, take delights in hand-feeding the giant pandas, our guide will accompany with you all the time. 

You will have lunch at the staff restaurant with the other panda keepers to expereince the daily life of them. After lunch, you can take short rest there or tour around the Base to capture their interesting moments with your cameras.

In the afternoon, spend a leisure time to watch a panda-themed documentary movie to know about the whole life of Panda as well as make your own panda cakes. At last, you will be awarded with the Honorable Certificate and an exquisite souvenir to memorize your wonderful panda keeper experience. 

After the tour, you will be taken back to your hotel in Chengdu.

Day 5 Chengdu Departure

After breakfast, our guide will take you to visit the Chengdu Renmin Park, a popular gathering place for locals. Strolling in the park, you will see local people drinking tea, playing mahjong or cards, dancing, singing, and playing music. There is even an interesting matchmaking area where people advertise their sons' and daughters' profiles to attract partners. Sitting alongside the locals and watching a tea pouring ceremony, as well as all other kinds of fascinating activities, is a great way to learn about and experience local culture. 

Then, continue your tour to Wenshu Temple. It is a buddhist temple and become a major tourist attraction in Chengdu, the temple itself is clean and relatively quiet. There are small ponds and underused buildings in corners of the complex where you can sit and relax. Wenshu Temple houses 300 Buddha statues made of various materials, including iron, bronze, stone, wood, and jade; some are beautifully painted as well. 

After the tour, you will be taken to Chengdu train station or Chengdu airport.

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