Photo taken on June 24, 2017 shows the cage carring panda "Jiao Qing" from China at an airport of Berlin, Germany. A pair of pandas have arrived here Saturday, making German public able to visit the animal species again at home after five years. [Photo/Xinhua]

They will head to the Garden and take some days to rest. The zoo will host a grand greeting party for them next month before the public visit, according to Berlin Zoo. It has been five years since the 34-year-old male panda Bao Bao died here in 2012.

Bao Bao had been sent by the Chinese government in 1980 as a national gift and kept in Berlin Zoo, along with a female one Tian Tian, who died in 1984. Another female panda, Yan Yan, who died in 2007, arrived in the zoo in 1995.