Volunteer Experience at Dujiangyan Panda Base

Your guide will contact you one day in advance to confirm the meeting time, usually at around 07:30. After picking you up from your hotel in downtown Chengdu, we will take a 1.5 hours' car ride to the Dujiangyan Panda Base to start this panda keeper program tour.


Upon arrival at 09:00 or so, your guide will help you handle the registration procedures. The staff there will inform you the dos and don'ts and then offer you the special uniform and volunteer card. When all the preparations are done, you will be divided into groups to complete the volunteer work under the guidance of the staff. Your tour guide will also accompany you for the entire time.


The volunteer program will usually start at around 09:20. The first work is to clean up the working area under the guidance of the staff. Sometimes, you will also assist the staff to prepare food for pandas, such as carrying bamboo, washing bamboo shoots, smashing up the bamboo stems for pandas to eat.
At 10:00 or so, you will have chance to see how the professional keepers feed the giant pandas through the enclosures.


The professional keeper will give you a simple lecture about living habits of Giant Pandas. You will learn many interesting knowledge about pandas.
Then a simple Chinese lunch (keeper’s lunch) will be offered for you at around 11:30 in the Base’s Canteen.



You will be guided to the office to make the panda cake. Learn the difference of between the diet of captive and wild Giant Pandas.


Cutting bamboo leaves for elderly giant pandas undergoing rehabilitation and recuperation. After then, the whole volunteer program is going to end at 15:30 or so and you will be awarded a certificate issued by the Dujiangyan Panda Base.