Half-Day Chengdu Panda Research Base Private Tour

Chengdu, China

4 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Visit Chengdu’s Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding to see China’s iconic giant pandas at work and play. With convenient transportation from your hotel, you maximize your time touring the facility with a guide. Witness the pandas eating and playing in a habitat that closely resembles nature, and experience the respect the center has for these protected animals.

Explore the Chengdu Panda Research Base with a guide
Get close to some of the 80 giant pandas who make their home here
Learn about the important work scientists are doing to protect this endangered species
Save time with round-trip transportation from your hotel in Chengdu

What's Included

Experienced English-speaking tour guide
The private car
Air-conditioned vehicle
The entrance ticket

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

We pick up of Your Chengdu hotel lobby

Itinerary

Chengdu

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)

3 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Chengdu

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Infant seats available
Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible

Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

5.0

based on 7 reviews

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An Amazing Panda Experience with Weaver

Bonnie_L, Oct 2025

We had such a great few hours with Weaver exploring the panda park. We’ve visited the pandas in Chengdu before at a different park, but the tour with Weaver was truly exceptional. He is kind, knowledgeable, and funny, with brilliant English. His great sense of humor made the experience even more enjoyable. Weaver knew a lot about pandas and kept us engaged in conversation throughout the trip. He was incredibly thoughtful, even stopping at a chemist to help us get asthma medication. After the tour, he kindly sent us plenty of suggestions for places to visit and eat. When we return to Chengdu, we’ll definitely reach out to him again to help curate another tour.

Definitely recommend Weaver for any tours Chengdu.

Riya_F, Sep 2024

Weaver, our tour guide was exceptional. He went above and beyond to show us the city even though it wasn’t part of the tour. It was so easy to communicate with him, he was very knowledgeable about any topic on the city. Best part was he knew exactly where to go to avoid the crowd in the panda research centre, he knows good places to eat and shop as well and helped us avoid tourist traps. Can’t recommend enough!

Awesome panda experience

Nicky_S, Sep 2024

Well organised and awesome guide on our half day trip. We saw plenty of pandas and learnt a lot from our guide. Thoroughly recommend this trip.

Make time for the red pandas

christina_s, Aug 2024

We planned a half day trip between Shanghai and Chongching, with a cooking class in the afternoon. Our guide was superb about meeting us at the train station and then about coordinating with the driver who was collecting us back to Chengdu. The red pandas were the highlight of our visit. Super active and interested in engaging people. The younger giant pandas in their enclosures were easy to see and played around like big, slow dogs might. The giant pandas were surprisingly the least interesting. They spend all day sitting in one place, eating their body weight in low nutrition bamboo and defecating. But still, you can't come to this part of China and NOT see the pandas... Expert tip - wait to buy your panda memorabilia on the walk back to your car so you're not stuck lugging it around. And what they offer here is the same as what you see all over China, nothing unique so no need to pay a premium.

Legit

HuiyiAmanda_C, May 2023

They were very responsive. We went during the China holiday period so could not go to Chengdu panda research base but we provided an alternative solution to visit dujiangyan panda base. It was further away but less crowded. Got to see Panda and the red panda. They also accommodated our request to put our luggage in the car and to drop us off directly at the railway station since we were travelling to another city in the evening. Overall a comfortable experience.