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.

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^

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!

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.