Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding

成都大熊猫繁育研究基地（南门）

A bamboo-forest park where you time your visit to panda breakfast

⚠ Real-name booking; opens 7:30am

Hours

7:30am–6pm (last entry 5pm; shifts slightly by season)

Tickets

Adults ¥55, students ¥27, over-60s free with passport; internal sightseeing cart ¥30 extra. Advance real-name booking only

Address

1375 Xiongmao Avenue, Chenghua; taxis and ride-hail cars drop you near the south gate

Get in right at opening and you'll catch keepers tossing in bundles of bamboo while pandas lie on their backs crunching through shoots. By 10am most of them have eaten, climbed into a tree or gone indoors to sleep, so this is strictly a morning outing. The grounds are big enough to swallow half a day on foot, and the paid sightseeing cart saves your legs on the way to the far enclosures. Crowds keep queuing for He Hua, China's favourite panda.