Onto the final house in the Panda Creek Valley, and the final post on Chengdu Panda Base for this trip series – the Cloud Moon Pavilion. There are 3 outdoor and 2 indoor enclosures in this pavilion, and currently there are 3 pandas listed as living here. On my visit I saw the same two pandas on both days of my visit, and both of them still live in the pavilion currently.

I’ve paired the next pavilions together – the Autumn and Mountain Moon Pavilions in the Panda Creek Valley. I didn’t spend as much time here, generally it was later afternoon and there was a lot of sleeping or low-activity pandas when I got there, but I did at least see pandas! As with all pandas, the morning is probably best. From looking at the app now, it does seem like this area now focuses on older pandas, so this isn’t so much the spot to view cubs or groups of young ones together at. The Autumn Moon Pavilion has 3 outdoor and 2 indoor enclosures, while the Mountain Moon as 4 outdoor and 2 indoor enclosures. These pavilions currently have 5 and 4 pandas respectively living in them.

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.