Bifengxia Panda Base

Bifengxia is a tourist park that is composed of two parts: Bifengxia Zoo and Bifengxia Park. Bifengxia Panda Base is part of the Bifengxia Park. The Zoo and the park require different admission fees. Most international visitors to Bifengxia will only go to the Bifengxia Park because that's where the Bifengxia Panda Base is located. The Bifengxia Zoo has many different wild animals except pandas. Bifengxia Park itself is a beautiful landascape. Bifeng means Green Mountains, Xia means gorge.

Bifengxia Panda Base is part of the China Giant Panda Protection Center, it was funded by 2003 in Bifengxia of Yaan, 150km southwest to Chengdu and 20km to the city of Yaan. Bifengxia Panda Base is a base of Panda breeding, rescue and public education. There are total around 20-40 pandas at the base of Yaan and mainly in three enclosures: Baixiongping, Kindergarten and Overseas Enclosure.

Baixiongping is for adult and ready-to-be adult pandas.

Overseas Panda Enclosure is for pandas that were born in other countries and have returned China and live here.

Panda Kindergarten is for baby pandas that are younger than 2 years old and mainly breeded in the base.

Ticket Information:

Ticket costs 100 yuan to go into Bifengxia Park(including panda base and Bifeng Gorge).

Optional Golf Car available in panda base 2km: 15 yuan

Ticket Business Hour: 08:30 -16:20

Recommended Time of Visit: 2 hours if you only visit the panda base, 5-6 hours if you plan to visit/walk the Bifeng Gorge

Visiting Tips:

• 1. During thunder or heavy raining or hot days the pandas will likely to stay indoors.
• 2. All pandas need more than just a cage, this is why every enclosure also has a big garden for pandas to walk around
• 3. Pandas don't like hot weather. When temperature is over 26C pandas don't feel well and will likely to hide in shed or indoors to reduce moving.
• 4. Every day between 08:30-10:30 is cleaning time for pandas.
• 5. Every day between 11:00-11:30 and 15:30-16:00 are the feeding time for pandas indoors, so you may not see them during this time.
• 6. Baby pandas are usually dining at between 9:00-9:30 and 15:00-15:30 each day.
• 7. Some pandas need to do regular physical check at sometimes, so you may not see them.
• 8. When during any maintenance of any enclosure you may not see the pandas.
• 9. Baby pandas are usually born between July and October.
• 10. Baby pandas are climbers and usually like to hide in the trees.
• 11. We don't wash pandas, so pandas usually are not white and black but rather brown and black.

Tourist Line: 0835-2318145

Bifeng Gorge

Bifengxia usually refers to the Bifengxia Park that can either mean Bifengxia Panda Base of the Bifeng Gorge. Bifeng Gorge is called Bifengxia in Chinese. Bifengxia Panda Base is inside the Bifengxia Park. Bifeng Gorge itself is a very interesting place to see too. One can walk inside the gorge for around 2-3 hours with views of waterfalls, streams, rocks etc. Bifeng Gorge is a good and cool place to walk when you are visiting Bifengxia Panda Base when you have time.

The only way to visit Bifeng Gorge is by hiking and walking. It involves walking on stairs for total 7km to finish the circuit loop by the valley passing by waterfalls, small rivers, cliffs and forests. Bifeng Gorge is a typical landscape of subtropical rainforest in China. The stairs are not steep but can be damp. Normally one starts by the panda base and walk down to the bottom of the valley then follow the river down and then up. Coming up the valley you can use an elevator.