For the first time in more than two decades, giant pandas are making a long journey from China to Washington, D.C. Two of the iconic, black-and-white creatures—a male named Bao Li and a female called Qing Bao—are officially on their way to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute,

Two new giant pandas from China have arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo Tuesday, nearly a year after the D.C. zoo’s exhibit was devastatingly vacated.