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3 Days\ 2 Nights
Travel around Chengdu, Pay a visit to the natural landscape Qingcheng Mountain. At the Giant Panda Home, you can experience more than 100 cute pandas and panda babies up close and realize your panda dream. With devout mood, we will come to Leshan Giant Buddha for sightseeing. This 3-day in- depth tour will make you fully experience Sichuang Province.
Atttractions and activities: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Wenshu Monastery, People’s Park, Kuan-Zhai Lane
Meal: Not Included
Accomodation: Ovenight in Chengdu
Begin your tour of Chengdu with pickup from your centrally located hotel. Board a private vehicle and drive to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Here is the world famous scientific research and breeding base, public education base and educational tourism base. The base covers an area of 1000 mu. As the "Giant Panda ex situ Ecological Protection Demonstration Project", it is famous for protecting and breeding endangered wild animals unique to China such as giant pandas and red pandas.
Then, continue to Wenshu Monastery, originally named Xinxiang, was built from 605 to 617 AD. It is the head of the four major Zen forests in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, and is a key cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province. Wenshu Courtyard went through Tang, five dynasties, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and was destroyed by the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
After lunch, visit the People’s Park in central Chengdu. Relax in bamboo armchairs and sip jasmine tea like the locals while learning about day-to-day life in Chengdu. On your way out of the park, walk down Kuan-Zhai Lane, a street notable for its historic importance and contemporary charm. Return to your hotel or any other specified drop-off point at the end of your tour.
Atttractions and activities: Leshan Giant Buddha
Meal: Not Included
Accomodation: Ovenight in Chengdu
The tour starts with the pick-up service at 9:00 am by your local professional tour guide. Then you will enjoy a comfortable transfer by a private air-conditioned vehicle to the renowned Leshan Giant Buddha, also known as Lingyun Giant Buddha, is near the confluence of the Dadu, Qingyi and Minjiang rivers. The giant Buddha is the seated statue of Maitreya Buddha, with a height of 71 meters, which is the largest cliff stone statue in China. The Big Buddha is a statue of Maitreya, graceful and magnanimous, and is praised by the poet as "a mountain is a Buddha, and a Buddha is a mountain."
At the end of the tour, you will be transferred back to Chengdu and dropped off at the hotel.
Atttractions and activities: Qingcheng Mountain, Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Meal: Not Included
Accomodation: Ovenight in Chengdu
Begin your tour of Chengdu with pickup from your centrally located hotel. Take a comfortable private vehicle to start the trip. Drive approx. 1.5 hour to visit Qingcheng Mountain. Surrounded by undulating peaks and lush trees, it enjoys the reputation of "Qingcheng world secluded". It is the holy land of the Quanzhenlongmen Sect of Taoism and one of the famous Taoist mountains in China.
Later have a break and enjoy delicious lunch, move on to explore the only surviving no-dam irrigation system in the world - Dujiangyan Irrigation System. It makes full use of the local geographical conditions of high northwest and low southeast, according to the special topography, water veins and water potential at the mouth of the river, take advantage of the potential to guide, no dam water diversion, self-flow irrigation, so that dikes, water distribution, flood discharge, sand discharge and flow control are interdependent, a total system, to ensure the full play of the comprehensive benefits of flood control, irrigation, water transportation and social water use. Its greatest point is that the weir has been built for more than 2250 years, and it is playing more and more benefits.
After the trip, the guide will transfer you back and drop you off at the hotel.