1 Day Panda Volunteer Program Plus Dujiangyan Highlight Private Tour Including Lunch

To catch all module of the Panda Volunteer Program, you will be picked up by your tour guide and driver in the early morning and drive to Dujiangyan Panda Base around 7am to arrive at the base around 8:15am. Upon arrival, first, you will be briefed on the itinerary of the volunteering program and sign the agreement paper. Then, put on volunteering suit and gloves, and then transfer to your work space by a park vehicle. Start your half-day volunteering under the guidance of a English-speaking panda keeper in the park according to below schedule and process: • Being an honorary panda keeper (9:00am ~10am): sweep panda enclosure, cleaning up panda feces, collecting bamboos, and splitting bamboos...etc. • Wonderful panda visit (10am ~ 11am): stroll leisurely from one panda enclosure to another to visit adorable pandas and watch them eating bamboos, climbing trees, and rolling on grasses. Also, take a visit to the neighbor of giant panda, the lovely red pandas. • Feeding panda (11am ~ 11:30am): feed pandas with supervision of staff on specially-made panda cakes and other favorite foods such as apples, bamboo shoots, apples, and carrot...etc. • Lunch break (11:30am ~ 1pm): enjoy lunch with other volunteers at the canteen of panda base. • Awarding certificate of honor: after completion of the program, the panda base will award you the Certificate of Honorable Panda Volunteer. Congratulations!  After lunch, drive about 9 miles (15 km) from the panda base to visit Dujiangyan Irrigation System. Before the irrigation system was established, Minjiang River rushed down from the high Minshan Mountain galloping on the Chengdu Plain without mercy in rain and flood season causing frequent floods. Li Bing, the governor of Shu State as well as a hydraulic engineer of Qin (771 BC ~ 221 BC) and his son constructed Dujiangyan Irrigation System in 256 BC to harness the river by channeling and dividing the water instead of simply following the old way of dam building. Since then, the floods were controlled, and Sichuan became one of the most productive agricultural areas of China. Today, Dujiangyan Irrigation System is still in use and irrigates over 530 hectare (5,300 square kilometers) of land in Sichuan. It is also a popular attraction where tourist can witness brilliant ancient irrigation engineering and explore fabulous historical sites as well as enjoy stunning natural scenery. After visit Dujiangyan Irrigation System, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Chengdu city where the service ends.

• Hotel Pickup and drop-off ( from downtown Chengdu only)

• Private, comfortable and non-smoking vehicle with an experienced driver

• Volunteer Program;

• Friendly and licensed English-speaking tour guide

• Lunch at Panda Base Cafe

• Sightseeing vehicle at Dujiangyan Irrigation System

• A bottle of water

• Hotel pickup and drop-off outside of downtown Chengdu City

• Airport or trains station pickup and drop-off

• Personal expense

• Optional panda hold and photo taking: cash amount of RMB$1800 per person to be donated on site to the CCRCGP (China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda)

• Gratuities for guide and driver (recommended)