8-Day Sichuan Private Tour to Jiuzhaigou, Panda Base, Jinsha Site Museum and Leshan Giant Buddha

Atttractions: No

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Ovenight in Chengdu

Arrive in Chengdu today, meet with the guide at Shuangliu airport, and then head for your hotel for rest.

Atttractions: Huanglong Valley

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Ovenight in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Spot

We will drive you to the airport and take the plane to Jiuzhaigou, your Chengdu tour should start from Jiuzhaigou valley firstly. Jiuzhaigou Valley is a masterpiece of natural workmanship, unique peaks, deep and dense forests, with "green sea, overlapping waterfalls, colorful forests, snow peaks, blue ice, hidden feelings" six unique beauty, has the "fairy tale world" reputation. As the saying goes: Huangshan return does not look at the mountain, Jiuzhai return does not look at the water.

Normally your tour guide will take you to Huanglong Nation Park directly, Huanglong Scenic Area covers an area of 700 square kilometers, and is 100 kilometers away from Jiuzhaigou, with an altitude of 1,700 ~ 5,588 meters. The core area is dotted with more than 3,000 colored pools. The main scene is the surface travertine landscape with strange structure and many color, which is composed of Huanglong Ditch, Danyun Gorge, Muni Ditch, Xuebao Ding, and Red Army Long March Monument Park. The main landscape is concentrated in the 3.6 km long Huanglong Gully, which is covered with calcium carbonate deposits and rich animal and plant resources.

You can take the cable car if you want to save some energy for the rest of the day, and it will takes you RMB120(ticket not included). You ca enjoy the best sight view of the beautiful alphine mountain forest and collorful calcified lakes en route. And eventually you will arrive at the Wucaichi Lake.
After you descend the mountain, you will head for Zhangza town close to Jiuzhaigou valley in about 2 hour’s driving, mountain and Tibetan villages will be the view accompanying you. And have a good sleep in hotel today.

Atttractions: Jiuzhaigou Valley

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Overnight in Jiuzhaigou

Get up in the early morning today, and then go to the gate of Jiuzhaigou National Park with your guide. There you will board local environment protecting bus to visit the long valleys.

The Y-shaped Jiuzhaigou valley actually are consisted of 3 long valleys: Shuzheng valley, Rize valley and Zezha valley.The scenic line of Rize Valley is 16 kilometers long, between the Nuorilang waterfall and the virgin forest, is the essence of the scenic line of Jiuzhaigou, the scenery is beautiful and varied, and it is also the highlight of the Jiuzhaigou landscape. 

Shuzheng Valley is the main valley of Jiuzhaigou and the gate to the beautiful scenery of Jiuzhaigou. The whole valley is 13.8 kilometers long, and there are more than 40 lakes (Haizi), accounting for about 40% of all lakes in Jiuzhaigou scenic area. More than 40 lakes, like more than 40 crystal mirrors, along the gully stack extended five or six kilometers. The water is very beautiful, rippling green waves, birds singing, reed shaking.

Zecha Valley, from Nuorilang waterfall to Changhaizi, is nearly 18 kilometers long, and the scenic spots are concentrated at the end of the gully. The main attractions are the season Sea, the five color Pool, the Changhai
In the late afternoon you will exit the valleys and return hotel for dinner.

Atttractions: Panda Base, the Wide and Arrow Alley

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Overnight in Chengdu

Say goodbye to this fairy land place, and your guide will send you back to Huanglong airport in about 2 hour’s driving. And after 50 minutes’ flight you will arrive at Chengdu again.
Another tour guide will pick-up you and take you to 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 the tour in Panda Garden, your guide will bring you to 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.

Atttractions: Luocheng Old Town, Leshan Giant Buddha, Linyun temple

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Overnight in the foot of Mount.Emei

Today your tour destination will be Leshan Giant Buddha. Your tour guide will take you to Luocheng Old Town in about 2 hours’ driving on express way, and you can enjoy the wide Sichuan plain en route.
Luocheng Old Street still remains in its original state of less tourist due to its out of beaten track. Although Luocheng is a very small street, it is impressive to watch local old people chatting and playing Chinese bridge card in the old style tea house with satisfaction to their simple life. Also you will enjoy the authentic countryside.

After lunch, your guide will show you the wonder of ‘ Buddha is the hill and the hill is a Buddha ‘ at the other side of Minjiang river. And then you will make a mild hiking tour on 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.

In the late afternoon, your guide will take you to Emeishan. It is a world cultural and natural heritage, a national civilized scenic tourism demonstration site, a national 5A tourist attraction, one of China's four famous Buddhist mountains, and a scenic spot in Sichuan. The hot spring of Mount Emei is very famous, so we highly suggest you to have a try before you leave.

Atttractions: Mount.Emei, Fuhu temple

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Overnight in Chengdu

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, located on Mount Emei in Leshan City, as of April 2007, at an altitude of 3079.3 meters, is the place with the greatest concentration of temples and scenic spots on Mount Emei.

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 lunch, you will take cable car and environment bus back the foot of the mountain, and then walk to Tiger Subduing Temple, 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".

Your guide will send you back hotel, and your Chengdu tour will be finished with sweet memory.

Atttractions: Local Vegetable market, Jinsha Site Museum, Wangjiang Park, Factory Memory

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: Overnight in Chengdu

It is a leisure tour day for you in Chengdu today. You will visit a local Vegetable market firstly.

After the short tour in Vegetable market, and then you will leave for Jinsha Site Museum. It is a site museum established on the original site of Jinsha Site, and also a special museum showing the ancient Shu culture in Sichuan during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The museum was established at the end of 2004 and officially opened to the public on April 16, 2007. It is composed of relics hall, exhibition hall, visitor center, cultural relic protection and restoration center, Jinsha Theater, garden area and so on. Is a collection of education, research, leisure in one of the modern garden museum.

In the afternoon you will drop a tour in Bamboo Garden, also called Wangjiang Park. It is famous at home and abroad for its Wangjiang Tower ancient building group, the memorial hall of Xue Tao, a famous female poet of the Tang Dynasty, and other cultural relics and various exotic bamboo.

After the tour in Bamboo Garden, you will make a tour in an interesting park of Factory Memory. It was built on the base of old factory actually. The East suburb of Chengdu was known for its many large factory, but now they have all been moved out of the city, and a park was built on their site.
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.

Atttractions: No

Meal: Not Included

Accomodation: No

There are so many nice sites in Chengdu, but time flies so quickly and your tour in Chengdu is finished today. Your guide will send you to airport and you fly back home with sweet memory.