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.

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 =)