Next up in the Panda Creek Valley is the Full Moon Pavilion – you can see in the pictures that this and the next pavilions have a different design than the first pavilions in this area. These are round buildings, where you can view indoor on one side, and outdoor on the opposite side (but all indoors on my visit) – in the Full Moon Pavilion there are 4 outdoor and 2 indoor enclosures, and currently there are 4 pandas listed as living here, I saw the same two pandas on both days of my visit. I was always here a bit later in the afternoon, so it was generally very quiet with not many other visitors watching the pandas at the same time as I was.

Next in the Panda Creek Valley is the Bright Moon Pavilion – there are 2 indoor and 6 outdoor yards like the others in this area so far. There are 6 pandas listed as living here currently, so actually lots of options and it’s the possibility to see all the pandas outside. On my visit it was inside only, and I saw 3 pandas across the two different days. I was very excited to see A Bao 阿宝/Po who was born at Zoo Madrid in 2010 – his twin is De De who I already saw at Panda Valley and loved, unfortunately A Bao/Po was just sleeping right at the back of the space on both days, so I didn’t really get a clear view of him. There were also possibly 3 pandas who I then didn’t see here – I’m not sure which ones unfortunately as there has been a reshuffle of pandas in this house, so currently I don’t see either of the below pandas listed as living here, thus can’t figure out who I missed! A Bao is still listed as living in this house, so he might also be able to be seen =)

The second of the 7 houses in Panda Creek Valley is the River Moon Pavilion – here there are 2 indoor and 6 outdoor yards, and currently there are 9 pandas living in this house. This house is quite identical to the previous Embracing Moon Pavilion. Four of these are 3 years old, so are still living together as young pandas, while the other 5 will be living as solo adults. On my visit across the two days I saw the 4 youngsters living together (first day only), and then two separate adult pandas, one of whom I saw on both days:

Into the final area – the Panda Creek Valley, where there are 7 houses to see giant pandas in, and first up it’s the Embracing Moon Pavilion. Here there are 2 indoor and 6 outdoor yards – the indoor space is only open in the Summer due to the higher temperatures meaning you are unlikely to see pandas outside. On my visit there were only pandas inside in all of the houses in the Panda Creek Valley. The app shows the Embracing Moon Pavilion to house 9 giant pandas currently, 4 of these are 2 years old so will be living together while the other 5 will be living solo. On my visit I saw the same 2 pandas on both days: