Chengdu Trip Overview
To reveal the hidden part of the Hetaoping Wolong Panda Base. These are the highlights:
a.Red Panda Volunteer Program: The volunteers will clean and prepare the food for the red pandas. Red pandas eat mostly bamboo, apples and panda cakes.
b.Learn about wildness survival training program for captive raised bred pandas : At Hetaoping, cubs are prepared for release largely without human contact. They are raised by their mothers in large bushy enclosures until independent, then moved together to larger isolated compounds. Their only interaction with humans is with the keepers who deliver bamboo daily, dressed in panda suits liberally soaked in panda urine to cover the human smell. Anyone visiting the center must wear the urine-soaked suits. Training to survive in the wild is left to the mothers.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Chengdu, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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To reveal the hidden part of the Hetaoping Wolong Panda Base. These are the highlights:
a.Red Panda Volunteer Program: The volunteers will clean and prepare the food for the red pandas. Red pandas eat mostly bamboo, apples and panda cakes.
b.Learn about wildness survival training program for captive raised bred pandas : At Hetaoping, cubs are prepared for release largely without human contact. They are raised by their mothers in large bushy enclosures until independent, then moved together to larger isolated compounds. Their only interaction with humans is with the keepers who deliver bamboo daily, dressed in panda suits liberally soaked in panda urine to cover the human smell. Anyone visiting the center must wear the urine-soaked suits. Training to survive in the wild is left to the mothers.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve, Wolong Town, Wenchuan County 623006 China
Wolong Hetaoping Panda Base, as a part of the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve, located at the southwest of Wenchuan County. It is the earliest base for giant panda breeding, which first constructed in 1980s.
07:00am-08:40am Drive to Wolong Panda Base
08:40am-09:00am Put on the suit and sign the agreement
09:00am-09:30am Drive to the red panda enclosures
09:30am-10:40am Prepare the food, clean the enclosures
10:40am-12:00pm Visit the semi-wild enclosures, the panda cubs being trained to be released into the wild
12:00pm-01:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-1:50pm Watch a documentary video
01:50pm-03:00pm Prepare the food
03:30pm-06:00pm Back to Chengdu
*The itinerary is subject to change.
Duration: 6 hours
