Can you hug a panda

Whether you can hug a panda or not in the future, we do think we have the same goal - wish the black and white bear a healthy life and pass more happiness to travelers around the world.

Still have a panda dream? Wonder how to fulfill? We have carefully selected some best places to see pandas and even take part in the meaningful volunteering work with giant pandas. Take your time to select! Every traveler to Chengdu will go to see giant pandas!

Chengdu Panda Base has more than giant pandas and as well as 76 red pandas in total. It is such a wonderful place to see pandas in different ages from newborn pandas to old pandas. Catch the precious chance at Sunshine Nursery House to get a close look at the cubs - pink fur which look like so different from giant pandas. This base is so large and designed with many activities - travelers can learn the history and facts about giant pandas at the museum, watch documentary at the panda cinema and get some basic knowledge about how to protect them, wander through the bamboo forest to have photo with the lovely animals and if you like, take some time to encounter with the red pandas, the friendly neighbor of giant pandas!

Wolong National Nature Reserve is considered to be the native habitat of wild pandas. A catastrophic earthquake largely devastated Wolong Giant Panda Center in and many injured pandas were moved to Bifengxia.

The new panda base of Wolong was relocated to Gengda Town and open in , where visitors can also be panda keepers. For years the center has made efforts to reintroduce pandas to the wild after captive breeding and preparation for the wild. Beijing Zoo was built in It is the biggest city zoo in China with a lot of rare creatures from all over the world.

Penguin House and Panda House are the must-visit attractions and they are also the most popular houses there. Find a panda tour here. If you are a super fan of Giant Panda, you must have been dreaming of hugging a real Giant Panda for a long time. Now it is time to realize your dream. You must be wondering which panda base to choose?

Dujiangyan Panda Base is recommended most because it is the nearest one. It is only 60km from the downtown Chengdu. Driving about 1 hour in the morning, you can get to the base before 9am, and won't miss any highlighting activity of the whole volunteering program.

It is about km about 2 hours' driving from Chengdu. No, better said, to see what my first introductory trip to China would look like. The country is far too vast and far too interesting to relegate to a single travel experience, but for my first foray into the Chinese mainland I knew not only that I had to visit the capital city Beijing, but if it all possible I had to hug a panda in the panda capital of the world, Chengdu.

Food, a fascinating culture and warm-hearted people are all long-standing reasons to love this city, so it must chagrin them a bit to know that they are world famous not for any of these hallmarks of the city, but for their furry residents. It started simply in the s, but by the s it had nearly pandas in the reserve and was responsible for hundreds of panda births. This endangered species calls the mountain ranges in south-central China home and Chengdu is the historic center of their habitat.

Chengdu is the largest of the panda reserves and thanks to its proximity to the metropolitan area of Chengdu, is also the most visited by tourists. So instead I visited a newer and lesser-known facility about an hour outside of town — the improbably long-named Dujiangyan Research Center of Giant Panda Breeding and Release. Known locally as the Panda Ark, Dujiangyan is just one of many reserves found in the region and here they focus on rescue, rehabilitation and disease control.

Covering about acres, walking into the facility it looked just like a panda rescue center should look. The goal of Dujiangyan from the beginning was to create a new kind of eco-tourism in the province.

A way to study and preserve the species while at the same time allowing the public access so that they can learn more about the beautiful Giant Panda.

Volunteers can spend the day at the facility, dressed in panda keeper outfits they learn all about the day-to-day care of the pandas. The volunteers do everything from clean up after the pandas to help prepare their food, all in an effort to create a greater understanding and awareness of the Giant Panda.