One Day Panda Volunteer Program as Keeper at Dujiangyan Base


Tour Code: ctcdd-2

Tour Type: Private Tour with Exclusive Tour Guide and Driver

Departure Date: Flexible

Tour Highlights:

Dujiangyan Panda Base is now the only base in China to join Panda's keeper program. This one-day tour will allow you to get close the cute giant pandas and offer an opportunity for you to experience how to look after them. The daily Activiti of a panda keeper include clean panda enclosures, make panda cakes, prepare fruits, and feed pandas. At the same time you can learn more knowledge of panda and their habits.


Itinerary

  • Day1

    Chengdu to Dujiangyan Panda Base: Panda Volunteer Program

    • Lunch
    7:00 Hotel Pick-up & Transfer to Dujiangyan Panda Base
    In the morning, your private guide will pick you up at your hotel and transfer you to China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) Dujiangyan Base. It will take 90 minutes from Chengdu.

    08:30-09:00 Registration and Preparation
    You need to register, sign a security contract and then dress up in work overalls and gloves. A professional panda keeper will tell you some safety tips on how to deal with pandas. You guide will translate for you.
     
    09:00-10:00 Clean Panda’s Enclosure
    The first wok is to clean panda’s enclosure including sweeping out their feces and  leftovers, and changing fresh bamboo, which will last 1 hour.
     One Day Panda Volunteer Program as Keeper at Dujiangyan Base
    10:00-11:00 Visit Panda Villa at Dujiangyan Base
    With the guidance of professional panda keeper, you will visit the Dujiangyan base and observe closely this cute creature.
     
    11:00-11:30 Feed Pandas
    This is our favorite part! Feed the pandas directly from your hand. They love carrots, bread and bamboo roots. You'll never forget the feeling of being able to see them so closely and interact with them.
     One Day Panda Volunteer Program as Keeper at Dujiangyan Base
    11:30-13:00 Lunch Time
    After morning’s work, you will have lunch in panda keepers’ canteen with staff. After lunch, you can walk around the base and watch the pandas take a nap - they sleep in any position!
     
    13:00-14:00 Watch Panda Movie
    Time to learn! A BBC documentary will show you some scientific facts about pandas, how they are rescued by human being and returned to nature.
     
    14:00-14:30 Clean & Feed Panda
    An adult pandas eat about 10 kilograms of bamboo every day, so their excrements are much. We need to clean the enclosure and feed them again.
     
    14:30-15:00 Make Panda cakes
    Let's cook for them! You'll learn how pandas' food is made and we'll prepare some delicious cakes for them to eat the next day.
     One Day Panda Volunteer Program as Keeper at Dujiangyan Base
    15:30 Receive a Certificate
    You will receive a certificate as volunteer keeper and some souvenirs. After returning overalls, it’s time say goodbye to the giant panda and panda keeper.
     
    15:30-16:30 Back to Chengdu
    We will transfer you back to your hotel of Chengdu.

Price Inclusion&Exclusion

Price Inclusion

•    Tickets: Entrance fees of all attractions listed in the itinerary.
•    Meals are specified in the itinerary.
•    Private Transfers: A private driver and a private tour guide will transfer you to airport/railway station, hotel and attractions in the cities in private air-conditioned vehicle.
•    Private Guide: We provide professional licensed tour guides who speaks English or other langauges  acorrding to your requirement. They are responsible, knowledgeable and have a sense of humor to accompany you throughout your journey.
•    Service Expenses (includes planning, handling, operating and communication expenses) and Government Taxes.
•    Insurance: China Life Tourist Accident/Casualty Insurance
Price Exclusion

•    International air tickets to enter and leave China
•    Chinese visa fees.
•    Hotel accommodation
•    Personal Expenses: For example cost of excess luggage, laundry, beverages, fax, telephone, optional activities etc.
•    Dietary expenses other than meals in price inclusion are not included in the itinerary.
•    The cost of the attraction not listed in the itinerary is not included.
•    Tips to tour guides, drivers etc.

Trip Notes

•   Book Volunteer Program
The program is totally dependent on arrangement of the Dujiangyan Panda Base. We cannot guarantee that the above details of the program will provide. We will do our best to ensure that your day is special. If you have limit time, you can join in program of half day, but the cost is the same.

•   Age Limit
The age restriction of this program is between 10 to 70 years old. The cost of 10 years old child is as same as the adult. If your children are between the ages of 0 to 10 years, you also can take them to participate in this program, but children need to stand out of the panda’s cage room and see you cleaning and feeding cage.

•   Dress
Please don't use perfume or nail polish because pandas are very sensitive to smell.

•   Private Guide & Transfer
You will have a private guide, private driver and an air-conditioned vehicle to accompany you at each destination of your trip, which will provide you with maximum personal care, security and flexibility.
All our guides are qualified and responsible professionals. All our vehicles are clean and in excellent condition, crewed with licensed drivers.
Private Tour Guide
In each city, we have a professional local guide. Our guide picks you up punctually at your arrival from the airport/railway station/spring of each destination. On your way out of that city, your guide will stay by your side until you have checked in and passed through security. All our travel guides in each destination are local and responsible, who know this area well. They accompany you visiting this city during 8 working hours of each day and they will tell background stories of the tourist places, and show you the secret places to take your best Vehicles of Young's China Travel pictures.
When it is necessary to change your itinerary for unexpected reasons, your private travel guide will suggest alternatives to ensure that you still have an excellent experience.

Private Transfer
With our comfortable and safe private transfer, your trip will be more relaxing and less tiring, keeping you in the best spirits to make the most of your experience in China. In all destinations visited, your vehicle is air-conditioned, clean and expertly maintained. Your private driver is licensed, insured and experienced.
Normally we will arrange vehicles with more space for you and your luggages. Depending on the number of passengers, we generally use sedans or minivans (7 seats) for 4 people or less, large vans or small buses (12-22 seats) for 5 to 12 people, medium cars (33-37 seats) for 13 - 25 people and large buses (more than 45 seats) for more than 25 people.

•     Remarks 
We reserve the right to modify the price due to exchange rate fluctuation
If you have special requirements, please tell us in advance.
We reserve the right of final explanation for any change due to the reasons beyond our control.