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Famous triplet boys Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku @ Chimelong Safari Park, February 2025

Onto two of the triplets – it’s the boys! The triplets are made up of two boys and a girl, so let’s meet Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku first. The trio were born on the 29th of July 2014, making them 10.5 years old on my visit, and the park still had up all sorts of signs and decorations from the celebration of their 10th birthday last year. Seeing them as cubs together must have been an amazing experience, I’ve seen so many amazing pictures online and how I wish that had been something I could have seen myself. The triplets were born to mum Ju Xiao – they were her second pregnancy after first having twins, so she did have some experience. The photos of her with the triplets are just adorable^

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Yue Yue, Ai Ai and Mei Qing @ Chimelong Safari Park, February 2025

Now for the next* 3 pandas at Chimelong Safari Park – Yue Yue, Ai Ai and Mei Qing! Now technically Yue Yue and Ai Ai were the next pandas I saw, they were in adjacent yards following on from Ting Zai and Long Long, and actually Mei Qing was in the last yard I saw in the first panda section. But based on the photos I got, I decided to group her here, and actually she lives in one of the best/most popular yards – it’s the one with the train!

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Introduction to PANDAS @ CHIMELONG SAFARI PARK plus Ting Zai and Long Long

I finally made it to Chimelong Safari Park! Visiting has been on my list for years, finally on this trip in February 2025 I fitted it into the schedule – and I think it’ll be on the schedule for many future trips too, I had such a great time here. The Chimelong Resort itself is huge, with different parks and hotels on offer, plus a free shuttle bus between sites, it’s quite like a Disney-resort (just with pandas involved, sounds perfect to me haha!)! I had 1 night here with the best part of a day and a half, by the time I got there from the airport, I took a chilled start to my time there then started fresh for a full day at the park because there’s so much more to see than the pandas, but more on all that in a later post.

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Quintet of Bei Chen, Zhi Yu, Jiao Yi, Wen Jing + Jia Xin, Starry Sky Pavilion @ Chengdu Panda Base, February 2025

The final post to share from my days at the Chengdu Panda Baselast time I had an amazing time seeing the quintet of Bei Chen 北辰, Zhi Yu 徵羽, Jiao Yi 娇毅, Wen Jing 文静 and Jia Xin 家欣, and this time they’re still in the same house as they were but in different smaller combinations. I loved seeing all 5 together, but of course as they get older that’s not so practical. So on the first day of my visit I saw Wen Jing, Zhi Yu and Jia Xin outside, while Bei Chen and Jiao Yi were inside, and on the second day I saw Bei Chen, Zhi Yu and Jiao Yi outside (I didn’t go inside on this day to see the others). So they are being mixed up in different combinations and I’m glad I still saw all 5 of them in the end! Their yard is huge, I think the largest one in this pavilion, it’s on a corner so there are two sides to view from. I did find the pandas generally spent their time in the back half of the yard, so sometimes they could be tricky to see – but possibly just due to the time I was visiting them at.

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Starry Sky Pavilion @ Chengdu Panda Base, February 2025

The Starry Sky Pavilion in the Panda Forest Area was definitely a highlight of my 2024 trip, and this time it was a fantastic spot for good panda viewing! Last time there were only pandas inside, this time I saw pandas both inside (although only in one space of the three) and outside – the outdoor yards here are pretty huge and are again quite varied, and viewing is pretty good, none of the yards are through glass although if the pandas are sitting near the building, then from the outdoor viewing path they are quite far away. There are 3 indoor spaces and 6 outdoor yards here – I saw a total of 10 pandas, so if you want to see a lot in one place, this is a good bet to go with! First up, the solo pandas I saw in this pavillion:

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