Tour Schedule  (June 3---12, 2012 & June.8--17,2013)

Dear Travelers,
This extraordinary journey will take you to discover fascianting cultural sites as well as gorgeous views of nature. In Bifengxia Panda Base where most of pandas are relocated after the quake in 2008, we’ll meet a panda expert and work with panda keepers with a unique experience of taking care of pandas. Following a naturalist, we’ll explore natural habitats of wild pandas in Tangjiahe and Wanglang Reserves, to know more about giant pandas and other rare mammals.
Hope you'll join us for this special panda tour.  If you want to do the pre or post tour extension, Email us by

adventuretourpw@vip.sina.com.

Price:USD1585/p.p.(based on 6paxs or above)

Detailed Itinerary

Day 01 Chengdu

Arrive Chengdu,the bustling queen city of West China and capital city of Sichuan Province. Transfer to the hotel.
This evening celebrate your arrival with a Sichuan Food dinner. Overnight in Chengdu

Day 02 This morning, see giant pandas and red pandas in Chengdu Panda Ecopark. Then head for Bifengxia Panda Reserve , where most of Wolong’s giant pandas are relocated due to the earthquake. En route, browse Shangli, a beautiful village famous for Long March.

Overnight in Ya’an 

Days03—04 In these 2 memorable days, we’ll meet with a panda expert, work as volunteers to take care of giant pandas, and play with pandas in a yard, also visit Panda’s Hospital and Breeding Center with a panda expert. (I’ll arrange paxs to see Pandas Taishan and Huamei if they are here.)
Overnight in Ya’an

Day05Today , say goodbye to our giant pandas from Wolong. And journey to Leshan,China's excellent tourist city .See Grand Buddha, UNESCO's cultural heritage, carved into the cliff on the waterfront of Min River, over 1,200 years ago.Cruise Min River with a panoramic view of this Buddha. Probably we know why Haitong, the monk of Lingyun Temple, who completed this project to subdue the flood by using supernatural power
Overnight in Leshan

Day 6

Depart for Guanghan. See Sanxingdui, an excellent archaeology museum dating frm 3000B.C..
Overnight in Guanghan.

Day 7 Sanxingdui toTangjiahe Nature Reserve
Today, we’ll drive out of Sichuan Basin, and ascend gradually through the Fujiang river valley and into the foothills of the Minshan Mountains. Much of this area has been restored since the 2008 earthquake, but some evidence remains.A scenic climb up a tributary valley, past fields of mustard and cabbage, will take us to Tangjiahe, a nature reserve designated for endangered mammals, as well as rare pheasants and other wildlife. The temperate conifer forests in this valley are intact and support a high diversity of wild plants including stands of redbud.
Tangjiahe Lodge (2 nights)

Day 8 Tangjiahe Nature Reserve
Tangjiahe, in the eastern Minshan mountain range,includes forested valleys encircled by high peaks. Much of the accessible part of the reserve is located at thebiologically diverse middle elevations (4,000-6,000 feet) where the forest is surprisingly intact. Tangjiahe Reserve is famous for takins (a relative of the musk ox),giant pandas, a couple of monkey species, more than 200 bird species,and 3,000 plant species. While we may not see the rare, large mammals in such a remote and densely forested enclave,we will certainly have an opportunity for good birding and seeing many plants in bloom. Today, we will explore the reserveon walks of varying lengths to accommodate group members.
Day 9 To Wanglang Nature Reserve,via Pingwu and Baima Valley From Tangjiahe, we’ll continue up the Fujiang River, passing the historic Chinese town of Pingwu. Gaining elevation throughout the day, we’ll stop in the ethnic minority township of Baima for a barbecue lunch. Here the local people consider themselves similar to, but culturally distinct from, the more prevalent Tibetan groups who live nearby. Up the hill is our destination, a mountain lodge in Wanglang Nature Reserve. Wanglang, with it’s subalpine forest of conifer and birch, is very scenic and ecologically distinct from Tangjiahe.Trees characteristic of these upper elevations includespruce, fir, juniper, and larch with an understory of rhododendron and arrow bamboo. At this elevation(10,000-11,000 feet), it will still be early spring. The rhododendron will be flowering, and if we are fortunate,we will encounter such early season wildflowers as Primula, Anemone, Gentiana and the beautiful buttercupOxygraphis glacialis. We have afternoon and morning excursions planned to Wanglang’s high meadow areas, Dawuodang or Zhugengcha. Wanglang ‘Eco-Lodge
Day10 This morning, we still explore Wanglang Reserve. After lunch, head back to Chengdu.This evening, we’ll enjoy  a wonderful performance of "Face changing "and "Flame Spitting -Out" in Sichuan Opera after a farewell dinner.
Overnight in Chengdu

  Day11Departure.

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Wild Giant Panda Images Captured(From Pandas International)

The images of a wild Giant Panda were captured on an infrared-triggered camera mounted in the Huangtuliang area in Wanglang Nature Reserve in Pingwu County, Sichuan Province, which is expected to serve as a corridor connecting Giant Pandagroups in the northern Minshan Mountains. The camera is set 200 meters from a mountain road, which will be closed when a tunnel going through Huangtuliang is completed in June 2012. There are 9 photos of the Giant Panda taken on a lightly rainy mid-August night. It's a healthy adult Giant Panda, who sometimes sat on the ground and sometimes walked around a rock. The camera also captured images of other animals such as takins, tufted deer, gorals, etc. In 2009, WWF helped Pingwu County make a plan to restore vegetation in the Huangtuliang area. Monitoring Giant Pandas via infrared-triggered cameras to find out the determining factors of the use of the Huangtuliang corridor by Giant Pandas is the first step of the vegetation restoration process.