3-Day Sichuan Private Tour to Leshan Giant Buddha, Panda Base, Mount.Emei with Sichuan Hotpot

Atttractions: Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center, Wide and Narrow Alley, Bamboo Garden, Hotpot

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Ovenight in Chengdu

Your Chengdu tour starts in the early morning today, the guide will pick up you at your hotel, and then head for the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in the suburb. 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.

After lunch, you will walk in the Wide and Narrow Alley. The Wide and Narrow Alley is located near Changshun Street, Qingyang District. It consists of wide alleys, narrow alleys and well alleys, which are arranged in parallel, all of which are ancient courtyard houses with Qingdai brick tiles. It is also a relatively large Qing Dynasty ancient street left over from Chengdu.

In the late afternoon your guide will take you to Bamboo Garden, also called Wangjiang Park, built 1000 years ago. It is to commemorate famous women poet Ms Xutao in Tang dynasty. The highlight of the park is also its forests boasting of 100 varieties of bamboo.

Hot Pot of Chengdu is well known in China. Sichuan hot pot began to spread around the Qing Dynasty Guang Dynasty (1821-1851), which has a history of 4,000 years. Due to the climate and terrain, spicy Sichuan hotpot can help dispel cold and dampness. It is because of cultural and environmental factors, hot pot has become the diet gene of Chengdu people.

After dinner your guide will send you back your hotel, have a good rest in hotel, and prepare for next day's tour.

Atttractions: Luocheng Old Town, Leshan Giant Buddha, Emeishan

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Overnight in Emeishan

Your Chengdu tour starts still in the early morning, you will head for Luocheng Old Town. The main street runs north-south, narrow at both ends and wide in the middle. The street is undulating like a deck in the waves; The drama towers in the streets are high, like high sails. The temple at the end of the street is like the cabin of a ship. On both sides of the street, there is a row of about 200 meters long and about 6 meters wide shady corridors, like a boat canopy, also known as "boat Hall Street".

After tour in Luocheng, you will continue half an hour's driving to Leshan.

After lunch, you will enjoy the wonder of ' Buddha is the hill and the hill is a Buddha ' at the other side of Minjiang river. And then you will walk up the 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."

In the late afternoon, your guide will take you to Emeishan for night in half an hour's driving. You will stay one night at the foot of beautiful Mt. Emeishan. And the hot spring of Emeishan is famous here, so we'd like to suggest you buying yourself a hot spring bath as prize of today's tour.

Atttractions: Mount.Emei

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: No

After a good sleeping, get up in the early morning, and then your pilgrimage tour to Emeishan mountain starts. You will firstly take local environment bus to the Golden summit of mountain. The scenic area can enjoy the sea of clouds and sunrise, and also worship the world's highest golden Buddha - the four sides of the universal sage icon. Standing on the mountain, you can sometimes see Chengdu Plain and Gongga Snow Mountain.There are scenic spots such as the Huazang Temple and the Ten Fang Puxian Bodhisattva icon.

After an hour’s driving, we will arrive at the parking lot Leidongping. After you get off the bus, you will continue walking about 30 minutes to the start of cable car. It is a mountain trail, and you may encounter some monkeys begging food in the mountain trail. And after 30 minute's cable car, you will arrive at the top of Emeishan mountain. When sky is clear, you can overlook the Sichuan Basin, or even see the snow peak of Mt Gongka hundreds miles away. And the huge golden Buddha Statue is looking into 10 directions by his 10 faces.
After lunch, you will take cable car and environment bus back the foot of the mountain, and then walk to Tiger Subduing Temple, also called Fuhu temple at the foot of mountain.  located about one kilometer west of Bao Guo Temple, was built in the Jin Dynasty, then called the Hall of medicine, and later changed to "Dragon God Hall", "Tiger Creek Zen Forest", "Tiger Creek Jing House". Because the mountain is like a lying tiger, the temple was named "Fuhu Temple".

In the late afternoon your guide will take you back Chengdu. It is 2 hours' driving again, just enough for you to have a short time's nap in your car. Yes, it is a bit tired after one day's mountain tour. Your guide will send you back hotel, and your Chengdu tour will be finished with sweet memory.