Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)

Meet your friendly English-speaking guide at your hotel lobby and you’ll head to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, a non-profit research and breeding facility for giant pandas and other rare animals. On a guided tour, visit different sections of the center to get a full overview of a panda’s development, from a baby panda to the full-grown giant panda. Visit the baby garden, where you can see giant panda cubs, which weigh only about 3.5 ounces (100 grams) at birth and by the third month are able to walk on their own. Then stop at the sub-adult garden, where the adolescent pandas hang out, and see the adult garden, which houses the giant pandas in all their full-grown glory. Take pictures of this endangered species eating bamboo, sleeping or frolicking about. Finally, try to spot the sleeping red pandas stretched out on branches in the red panda garden.

Jinsha Site Museum

After stopping for lunch at a restaurant, you’ll go to the Jinsha Site Museum, where you’ll gain historical and cultural knowledge of this area of China. The discovery of the Jinsha site has greatly expanded the connotation and extension of the ancient Shu culture, and is of great significance to the study of the origin, development and decline of Shu culture, especially to find strong evidence for solving the mystery of the sudden disappearance of the Sanxingdui civilization.