Price: upon inqiury
Destinations Visited: Chengdu - Wolong Gengda Town - Chengdu
Departure: Private Tour / Flexible Date
Wondering what is the job of the Panda Researcher like? This tour give you the rare chance to learn about the real habitat of panda as well as to experience a Panda Researcher's job. You will hike the Tiantaishan which is also being used by Wolong Panda Base for Giant Panda Rewild Training. Besides the research trekking, you will also join a Panda Volunteering Program in the panda base.
Book NowLeave Chengdu at 6:30 AM or earlier, then you will be transferred to Wolong Panda Base which is about 110km away from Chengdu downtown. The Panda Volunteer Program starts at 9:00, and finishes around 14:30.
Brief Process of Panda Volunteer Program:
1. Handle relevant procedures, sign safety agreements and health commitment forms, receive work uniforms and gloves, and proceed to the feeding area.
2. Under the guidance of the keepers and science educators, participate in picking up panda feces and cleaning the giant panda enclosures, and provide fresh bamboo for the pandas.
3. Visit the park, learn interesting stories and scientific knowledge about giant pandas, and explore the world of giant pandas through documentaries.
4. Lunch and rest.
5. Learn about the diet and digestive system of captive and wild giant pandas, learn the recipe for "Wowotou" (a type of steamed bun), and make "Wowotou" for the giant pandas.
6. Return the work uniform, receive certificates, and commemorative items.
After the work, spend some leisure time in the panda base. Then go to rest in your hotel in Gengda Town.
(Please note today's program is only available for groups that are over 10 people.)
Today you will become a honorable Giant Panda Researcher. You will go to hike in a real wild habitat of pandas, Tiantaishan, which is also being used by Wolong Panda Base for Giant Panda Rewild Training. It is a great chance to learn about the real habitat of panda as well as to experience a Panda Researcher's job.
Firstly, get to Shenshuping Panda Base to learn about the process of the research program and change uniforms. At around 9am, a English-speaking staff in the panda base will take you to Huangcaoping where the research hiking starts. Tiantaishan Giant Panda Rewild Training Center was put into use in 2014, and covers an area of over 1 square kilometers at the altitude over 2500 meters with vast bamboo forests, clean streams, bushy plants, which is an ideal home for Giant Pandas. During the research program, you will not only learn about the living habit and habitats of Giant Pandas, but also enjoy the leisure hiking in the beautiful Dengsheng Valley. The staff in the base will also teach you how to observe and study the living of Giant Panda, and use researching tools such as the wireless trackers used to trace the signals sent from the necklace on the panda.
The hiking and research program will last from 9am to around 3pm with a distance around 8km. Once the program finished, drive back to the base and then drive back to Chengdu.
Please complete belowing form and submit it. Our staffs will contact you as soon as after we receiving your inquiry.
