And the third panda of the triplets, the oldest and only girl, Meng Meng 萌萌 – and even more special, she had her first cub in 2024, a girl named Mei Zhu 妹珠! I was so excited to see this duo, and they sure were a highlight of my visit to Chimelong Safari Park. These two were living in a slightly separate area to the main panda walkthrough, but once my Instagram followers helped me out, I was sorted to see them – on my visit in February 2025 access to this area (and several other animals too) opened at 11:30AM, so actually a bit of a blessing as there was plenty of time to view other pandas first, then could go line up to get a more quiet viewing experience. Until around 2PM, I saw Mei Zhu outside on both occasions that I went through this area, she was sleeping up in a tree right in the middle of the yard (behind her super cute pink chair, I love it!), and I didn’t see Meng Meng on these occasions. Both were inside in the larger space on my later afternoon visits, on the first both were awake and I saw some super adorable interactions between the two, although mostly Meng Meng wanted to rest and Mei Zhu wanted to play XD On my last visit of the day both were sleeping, so a perfect time to need to leave at. It was quite a bit busier in the afternoon vs. the morning, with queueing to get into viewing required in the afternoon.

While I didn’t get to see Mei Zhu in the nursery room, it was nice that the curtain was open – the little doors where I have seen pictures of Mei Zhu getting out through are tiny, that would have been so cute to see! There are of course lots of photos and videos online of Mei Zhu‘s short life so far, and being a famous surviving triplet, also a lot online of Meng Meng‘s life as well. Sadly I didn’t see a sign for information about Meng Meng, however there was some work going on in the area, so the signage may have been behind some of the temporary walls.