Chimelong Safari Park near PanYu in Guangzhou is still the best all-around Chimelong destination for the whole family to enjoy. Although the Guangzhou Zoo has improved itself in recent years so both are recommended. The new overhead Tram makes the Safari park more accessible if your group does not have walking stamina for entire park.

Visitation tips:

1. Arrive 30 min before opening via South Gate, and queue up at the far left set of security gates. Most people are unaware of these.

2. Either head straight to Triplets Station to ride overhead Tram to North Entrace and get full Park overview OR walk to Panda exhibit to catch the morning active feeding time before they go to sleep. On past visits when looking at pandas later in the day, they were either sleeping or... doing inappropriate things to themselves that are hard to explain to children. Weird creatures, for sure.

3. Try to reach the North Exit area in good time, and check the line for Safari Park Train tour. If there is a line out to the Lake, it can easily be 2 hours despite saying 60 min. Forget it or splurge the 150 RMB for EasyPass to access shorter line. The Overhead Tram through the Safari park is quite good, although it does help to have been thru it on the ground to know where the animals are located.

4. The 12:45pm Elephant Show is worth making it to, but it has changed over past 10 years either for better or worse depending on opinion. They used to do fabulous circus-like elephant displays of climbing, balance, and ball playing of the sort that most westerners would nowadays consider cruel treatment for such majestic animals. Well, by 2024 they have changed the show to be more humane but still fun to see creative ways elephants will problem solve to reach and eat their favorite foods.

5. Check times for the White Tiger feeding displays. This is still of a style you would not see in a western zoo, where they dangle raw meat over the tiger's swimming pool and everyone relishes in the jumps and splashes of the Tigers.