Giant pandas are Sichuan's most famous residents, but if you have no chance to go to the Wolong Nature Reserve, the Research Base may be the best place to see them. There are bamboo-shaded paths, animal pens, research laboratories (no visitors allowed), and a museum housing exhibits on pandas, butterflies, and China's vertebrate animals, and at least a half-day visit to the base is appropriate. Eighty-five percent of the world's remaining wild pandas live in Sichuan, and the Research Base and Chengdu Zoo have 21 giant pandas, more than 20 lesser pandas, and many black-necked cranes and white storks. There are 14 kinds of bamboo and 300 other plant species at the Base.
¡¡¡¡The Research Base museum is open from 9:30AM to 11:30AM and from 1:30PM to 3:30PM. The best time to see the pandas is before 10:00AM,since they are likely to go to sleep for the rest of the day. At the Baby Panda Building, as marked on the Research Base map, you might get a look at the newest litter through an open window. The pandas breed in early spring, a particularly lively time.
¡¡¡¡Getting there: The park is ten kilometers from downtown Chengdu and can be reached by taxi, tour (which might be arranged by any of the tour companies at the Traffic Hotel), or bus (numbers 60, 18, or 10) to the zoo and then taxi . |
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