Private Half Day Panda Volunteer Tour
Description
Provide you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get close to this special black and white holy animal you ever wanted. The tour proposal is very convenient with the hotel pick up and drop-off. A professional English tour guide will let you know all about pandas, your friendly driver and private transfer will make your trip more comfortable.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Meet your friendly English-speaking guide at your hotel lobby. Learn all interesting facts about pandas from your knowledgeable guide, after 1.5 h driving you will start your exciting day at Dujiangyan panda center. Work with the keepers to clean up the enclosure for these lovely and special national treasure if you'd like to, prepare nutritious food for them, visit the giant pandas of all ages and also see adorable red pandas here. It will be once in your lifetime memorable experience to actually help these wonderful and rare animals. Our experienced driver will send you back to your city hotel safely before meal and end your amazing tour.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Departure point: Free picking up service from your city hotel or residence in Chengdu (all hotels within 3rd Ring Road), if you stay outside the 3rd Ring Road, then need to be picked up at the main gate of Wuhouci, or please contact us in advance to arrange to be picked up from your hotel or airport and pay extra cost to driver. Return point: Returns to original departure point or can be drop-off at the city center.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Please wear comfortable walking shoes
Reviews(1)
Seeing the pandas was honestly amazing and they are the cutest animals. However the reason I gave this activity 3 stars is basically just the price of the experience. If we had paid half the price I would have said it was worth the money and was an incredible experience but as much as I enjoyed seeing the pandas up close and helping out I just could not justify the price we paid. We paid €430 for the two of us to hit bamboo for 20 minutes, cut up some bamboo leaves, roll some dough and watch a documentary. I don’t want it to seem like we did not enjoy it as we very much did but the price was ridiculous. The only perk I think of doing the volunteer programme is seeing a panda up close eating his snacks, we just were not allowed to take pictures, which I can understand. I understand that it’s a research base that depends on volunteer contributions but I think that there should not be a fixed amount of approx €110 euro each to volunteer and that it should be a donation amount of our choosing. I feel like it is not worth the extra €110 each on top of the money you spend to get in/ transport/ guide to just get that bit closer to a panda. Again I don’t think there is anything wrong with the volunteer activities we did it’s just the price. We kind of laughed at it afterwards because we paid twice as much as everyone else to do work. Our guide Perry was pleasant and so was our driver. I have a feeling that foreign tourists are charged a lot more than locals/ Chinese tourists for this experience as there was a lot of kids on our tour and I doubt a volunteer donation of €110 each was given. We just had a feeling that forging tourists get a bit ripped off with this attraction. Was still a lovely day nonetheless and I think the work they for the pandas is just phenomenal.
Thanks a lot for your feedback, honestly speaking, as an travel agency, we think the volunteer price charged by Panda Center is ridiculous high, too, but the Chinese pay the same for sure, such as the student volunteers you saw in the center, they organized by the school and they pay even more, because the schools and teachers do this as business. More that 15 years ago, when the volunteer program first started, people can feed the pandas, can holding a baby panda for photo, and posted their feeding panda experience and photos on the internet, this has drawn protests from animal rights activists and NGOs, forced the panda center stopped to allow feeding, photographing, especially after COVID-19, even not possible get a little close to the pandas, maybe one day in the future, the whole volunteer program will be stopped, let’s wait and see!
