Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Buddha Tour: One Day Trip Highlighting Panda Encounters

Experience an unforgettable one-day trip in Chengdu, China, where you’ll encounter adorable pandas at the Chengdu Panda Base and marvel at the magnificent Leshan Giant Buddha carved into a cliff face.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding - Keep your camera ready as you explore two of Chengdu’s most picturesque locations on this full-day tour – the UNESCO-listed Grand Buddha in Leshan and the Chengdu Panda Base. Begin your day by getting up close with China’s charming native pandas, with opportunities to see Giant Pandas, Red Pandas,…
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Bottled water provided
  • Professional driver
  • Parking, fuel, and toll fees included
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off included
  • Round trip to Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Giant Buddha
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • panda base and Leshan buddha tickets
  • tour guide service
  • lunch
Additional Information

The Panda is a main attraction in the tour of Chengdu, with the panda base being a short 30-minute drive from the city center. Chengdu’s giant panda breeding and research center magnetizes approximately 100,000 foreign tourists annually. Spanning several hectares adorned with bamboo groves and habitats similar to their natural environment, the center…

Location
Chengdu
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Philip_c
Oct 22, 2025
Pandas and Leshan - We booked a tour to the Panda sanctuary and Leshan in Chengdu. Our driver and guide Li Chao, was excellent, patient and knowledgeable
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Csrao3
Oct 12, 2025
Great experience - Viator sent the Car and driver, as planned. The driver was very polite and helpful, however he was speaking only Chinese. We managed a little bit with Apple Translation. Later on, we engaged an English speaking guide to take us around the Panda Research Base. She gave a great overview and was very professional. Additional expense of 300RMB could have been avoided if the driver was able to speak English (which we requested while making the booking)
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Worster
Oct 6, 2025
Great Trip , Highly Recommend for People Short on Time - Excellent Trip to Panda and Buddha . The trip went quite well and the communication through the journey ( booking to trip date) was extremely good , no complaints whatsoever. The co-ordinator is very helpful to asks of our requirements ( we didnt have any ) and always made contact. Highly Recommend this trip.
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Sofia_s
Sep 4, 2025
Great tour!! - Our guide, Yan, made every effort to speak to us, even using apps to translate accurately all the information. She drove us to the destinations, but also showed us where to buy tickets, took us to lunch and helped us a lot on the Leshan Buddah sight. It was a great trip! No pressure about the time we spent in each place. I truly recomend it!
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Roam42998645200
Aug 11, 2025
Panda-wonderful - An awesome day visiting the pandas and Buddha. Lalaland was incredible with the service they provided as the guide only knew Chinese but the owner Lala was always available helping pout whenever needed. I felt incredibly well cared for
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Ana_m
Aug 6, 2025
Exceptional driver - We hired the tour to the Pandas reserve and, later, to the Buddha of Leshan. Our driver, Zhoujianlong, was very friendly and even accompanied us to the entrance of the activity to guide us on how to access and buy tickets.
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Cynthia
Jul 22, 2025
The super friendly operator, arrived early, his car very clean with bottled water. He helped us buy entrance tickets and we - The operator arrived on time, very friendly, his car clean and with Agus bottled, helped us buy tickets and had very good attitude.
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Florence_k
May 6, 2025
Our tour guide / driver... - Our tour guide / driver was outstanding, Huang Lin is a very smooth and safe driver and made our tour so much more enjoyable !
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Lindaa4212
May 6, 2025
Great ride, Very comfortable. - The driver was prompt and professional. Really comfortable car seats for the 4 of us. Felt like 1st class! Driver kindly escorted us to the entrance to purchase tickets for the Panda Base and the Boat tour to the Giant Buddha in Leshan.
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Tsunamistas
Oct 19, 2025
Absolutely terrible. - I booked this $180/person “whole day” trip to visit the panda reserve and the Leshan Buddha through Tripadvisor. The logistics were terrible, a bad joke. The “guide” was also the driver and spoke no English at all, really at all, we “communicated” with sentences translated on his smartphone. In the panda reserve, he was not aware that the parking lot near the entrance was closed for months - we parked 1km away, he escorted me to the entrance, then I was on my own, no tips where to go and where to focus. Once out, we drove to Leshan. When we arrived there was a queue to buy tix, other groups had prebooked tix and walked right in. I was amazed that they had not reserved tix. After waiting for about 30 min, we were told there were no tix left for the day. Unbelievable as it sounds, they had booked me a tour without having booked tickets to where we were going in advance. So we drove back, without seeing the Buddha, and this was my only chance The trip to Leshan was 5 hour waste of time. Save your money, go by taxi, I priced it all at the hotel once back, it would have been 1/2 price for one person via taxi, 1/4 price for two. You can do everything they advertise as tours on your own, via taxi; the tour does not add anything except an early morning wake-up.
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From $45
up to 6 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).