Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is located on the Futou Mountain, suburb of Chengdu, covering over 600,000 square meters. It is an important place for protecting, breeding and researching giant panda. It is equipped with the complete set of panda huts, feed room, medical station, laboratory building and panda museum. In the research base, there are luxuriant green trees, emerald green bamboo and babbling brook, with over 30 giant pandas living there and ten thousands various birds and animals having fun in the forest and on the lake surface. It perfectly show the harmonious relationship between human and natural. If you want to have a nice time with panda before your Tibet tour from Chengdu, The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breding is a good place to go.
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding will open at 8 o'clock in the morning and close at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. It will be open around the year. (Telephone number:028-83510033.)
The ticket of Chengdu Research base of Giant Panda Breeding is 58 CNY for each person. The price of group ticket is 53 CNY for each person (with necessary documents). The students group ticket is 29 CNY for each person . The old people between 60 years old and 70 years old will be charged the half of full fare (29 CNY). The people older than 70 years old, retiree, Red Army man, the disabled people and military personnel in active service will not be charged with valid certification and ID card. Children taller than 1.2 meters will be full charged.
In Chengdu, you can first take the buses of Route 45, Route 63, Route 69, Route 70, Route 71, Route 83, Route 82, Route 49 and Route 60 to Zhaojue Temple, and then take the buses of Route 198 or Route 87 to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Of course, you also can take taxi to visit the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, which cost is about 40 CNY.