Ask a QuestionTo see Giant Pandas is a must-do thing while you are visiting in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Except for normal visit to see the pandas outside the breeding house, you can also get closer look to the pandas by joining One Day Chengdu Panda Volunteer Tour in Giant Panda Base in Dujiangyan.
Located about 67 kilometers away from Chengdu downtown, Dujiangyan Panda Base was open to the public in recent years. The main function of the Dujiangyan base is the giant panda's nursing and disease control. There are Giant Panda volunteering programs available in Dujiangyan panda Base in Chengdu, Sichuang Province. You will have a rare chance to be a volunteer here to take care of pandas and get to know How do pandas live? What do pandas eat? Why are pandas endangered and how are they protected?
• Get a closer look at giant pandas
• Learn the living environment of Giant Pandas
• Prepare food for pandas
• Help to feed pandas
•Clean pandas' houses
Be picked up by your tour guide and driver from your hotel lobby in Chengdu in the early morning. Then be driven to Dujiangyan Panda Base (about 1.5 hours' driving). As you are supposed to arrive at the panda base at around 8:30 am, you need to depart from Chengdu quite early. Upon your arrival, your One Day Chengdu Panda Volunteer Tour starts. The general schedule would be:
9:00-9:20: Bring relevant activity materials, arrive at the Science Center's second floor to sign safety agreements, receive work uniforms and gloves, receive instructions from staff on activity precautions, undergo pre-job training, and proceed to the feeding area.
9:20-10:00: Under the guidance of the science teacher, clean the work area, perform tasks related to feeding pandas such as cutting bamboo, cleaning bamboo shoots, and transporting bamboo.
10:00-10:30: Watch the feeding of the pandas by the keepers and receive training on panda behavior.
10:30-11:30: Listen to professional lectures from the science teacher to understand the living habits of giant pandas.
11:30-12:50: Experience the panda keeper's lunch and rest.
12:50-13:50: Watch a documentary about giant pandas.
13:50-14:30: Make panda-shaped steamed buns ("panda wo wo tou"), learn the recipe for the steamed buns, and learn about the diet of captive and wild giant pandas.
14:30-15:00: Trim bamboo leaves for the elderly pandas in rehabilitation.
15:00-15:30: Share and summarize experiences, and receive a certificate as an attendee of the China Giant Panda Conservation Research Center.
15:30-16:30: Activity concludes; participants may choose to freely explore the park.
After that, the one-day Panda volunteer program ends. You will be transferred back to your hotel in Chengdu downtown. Come and join Panda Volunteer Program in Dujiangyan Base with Top China Travel.
Note: the above schedule of volunteer program is subjected to make appropriate adjustment according to the actual situation of that day.
► First Day
Be picked up by your tour guide and driver from your hotel lobby in Chengdu in the early morning. Then be driven to Dujiangyan Panda Base (about 1.5 hours’ driving). As you are supposed to arrive at the panda base at around 8:30am, you need to depart from Chengdu quite early. Upon your arrival, the first-day Panda volunteering work starts.
8:30am - 9:00am Be met by the staff who serve at the base. Then be guided and walk to the Giant Panda Volunteer Service Center to sign up the “Pandas Volunteering Experience Security Protocols”. You need to do registering for your volunteering work. As your volunteering session officially starts, you will receive a uniform(Sterile gown, mask, hat and gloves) and meet the panda keepers who introduce you the procedures of the program (how to care for pandas and the guidelines for working with them) and do safety training.
9:00am - 10:00am Clean Pandas' enclosures, including clean the bamboo leftover of pandas and panda poop. During the cleaning, you learn to observe the living environment and state of pandas.
10:00am - 11:00am Panda nutritionist introduces the recipe of the specially-made Wowotou (a kind of steamed bread) in details first. Then under the guidance of nutritionist, volunteers learn to make Wowotou for pandas.
11:00am - 11:30am Feed the pandas with specially-made Wowotou (a kind of steamed bread) and fruit.
11:30am - 12:30pm Enjoy a simple lunch in the canteen with Giant Panda guardians or opt to buy lunch at a local restaurant run by farmers.
12:30pm - 13:00pm Take a break with a leisurely walk around the base freely or have a short rest in Volunteering Service Center.
13:00pm - 14:00pm enjoy watching a documentary film about pandas, to learn how pandas are protected and how pandas are getting well along with human beings.
14:00pm - 14:30pm Help to feed the pandas.
14:30pm - 15:30pm Under the guidance of instructors, you would have a tour to visit different panda houses in the base to see the adorable pandas.
15:30pm - 16:30pm Have a painting lesson to learn to draw pandas.
After that, the activity for the first day ends. You will be transferred back to your hotel in Chengdu downtown.
► Second Day
Be picked up by your tour guide and driver from your hotel lobby in Chengdu in the early morning. Then be driven to Dujiangyan Panda Base (about 1.5 hours’ driving). Upon your arrival, the second-day Panda volunteering work starts.
8:30am - 9:00am Go to the volunteer service center to change uniform.
9:00am - 10:00am Clean Pandas’ enclosures, including clean the bamboo leftover of pandas and panda poop. During the cleaning, you learn to observe the living environment and state of pandas.
10:00am - 10:30am Visit the display of stories and basic knowledge about panda rescuing. You will be introduced how a panda doctor rescue an injured or ailing panda, how a captive panda is trained with re-wilding training session and released into the wild.
10:30am - 11:00am Under the guidance of instructor of the base, you will have a tour to the Red Panda House and get to know the knowledge about Pandas' food competitors and predators.
11:00am - 11:30am Help to feed pandas.
11:30am - 12:30pm Enjoy a simple lunch in the canteen with Giant Panda guardians or opt to buy lunch at a local restaurant run by farmers.
12:30pm - 13:00pm Take a break with a leisurely walk around the base freely or have a short rest in Volunteering Service Center.
13:00pm - 14:00pm Under the guidance of instructor of the base, learn to practice Chinese calligraphy and play Chinese chess.
14:00pm - 14:30pm Help to feed pandas.
14:30pm - 15:30pm Take part in a lecture about basis knowledge of pandas
15:30pm - 16:00pm After the lecture, fill in a questionnaire sheet about pandas and select winners. The winners can get rewards.
16:00pm - 16:30pm The two-day volunteering program ends. All the volunteers receive a volunteer certificate to commemorate the two meaningful days before your ride back to your hotel in Chengdu.
Note: the above schedule of volunteer program is subjected to make appropriate adjustment according to the actual situation of the day. Interested in join Panda Volunteer Program in Dujiangyan Base, feel free to contact us.
Join Panda volunteer program in Dujiangyan Base in Chengdu will help you get closer contact and learn more about China Giant Panda. If you are interested in it, please kindly contact us(sales@topchinatravel.com) to make the tour program for you.
4 Days Chengdu Tour with Giant Panda Volunteer Program
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