8-Day All-inclusive Tour to Discover China from Chengdu to Chongqing: Leshan Giant Buddha + Mount Emei + Base of Giant Panda Breeding + The Dujiangyan Irrigation System + Hong Ya Dong

Sit back and relax on a flight to Chengdu, China! Stay overnight on the plane and enjoy three meals at your own expense. 

Reminder: Some flights arrive in Chengdu two days later, please refer to the actual flight ticket you booked.

Complimentary Airport Pick-up: 12:00 and 18:00 at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU), Chengdu Tianfu International Airport(TFU). Please be noticed the listed time refers to the meeting time with our staff after claiming your baggage.

Today, you will arrive at Chengdu, a national historical and cultural city known as the "Land of Abundance". As "the most famous cultural city in China" and "the best tourist city in China", Chengdu bears thousands of years of history, and was awarded the title of "City of Gastronomy" by UNESCO Creative Cities Network. You must not miss the giant panda base closest to downtown Chengdu, Dujiangyan, a large-scale water conservancy project built in ancient times and still in use today. It is also part of the world cultural heritages, Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha.

Airport Pick up in Chengdu → Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li (1 hour) → Hotel

Today, we will start from Chengdu and go to the national 5A-level tourist attraction - Leshan Giant Buddha. Leshan Giant Buddha, also known as Lingyun Giant Buddha, is located on the side of Lingyun Temple on the east bank of Minjiang River in Leshan City, Sichuan Province, near the confluence of Dadu River, Qingyi River and Minjiang River. The Giant Buddha is a sitting statue of Maitreya Buddha, with a height of 71 meters. It is the largest cliff-carved stone statue in China and a part of the world's cultural and natural dual heritage, Mount Emei-Leshan Giant Buddha. Afterwards, we will drive to Mount Emei.

Chengdu → Leshan → Leshan Giant Buddha (Boat tour, 40 mins) → Mount Emei

Today, we will visit Mount Emei with profound cultural heritage. Mount Emei is a sacred place of Chinese Buddhism, known as the "Paradise of the Buddha", and is the ashram of Samantabhadra. With its "majestic, beautiful, divine, strange and spiritual" natural landscape and profound Buddhist culture, it has been included in the "List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage" by UNESCO. Afterwards, we will drive back to Chengdu and visit Kuanzhai Alley in Qingyang District, which is composed of Kuan Alley, Narrow Alley, and Well Alley arranged in parallel, all of which are antique quadrangle courtyards with indigo bricks and tiles. This is also a relatively large-scale Qing Dynasty left over from Chengdu. ancient street.

Mount Emei Baoguo Temple (60 mins) → Take the cable car to the top of Mount Emei → Mount Emei Jinding (2 hours) → Chengdu → Kuanzhai Alley (1 hour)

This morning, we will go to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, an important place for ex situ conservation of giant pandas in China. The base is a world-class non-profit giant panda breeding research institution built to save the endangered wild animal giant panda. The base has verdant bamboos and trees, singing birds and fragrant flowers. It integrates natural mountain scenery and beautiful artificial landscape. It is suitable for the ecological environment where giant pandas and various rare wild animals live and multiply. After lunch, we will drive to Dujiangyan City and visit the great water conservancy project that has been benefiting the people since ancient times—the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project. It is characterized by a long history and no dam water diversion, and is the originator of the world's water conservancy culture. In 2018, the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project was included in the World Irrigation Engineering Heritage List. Then, we will return to Chengdu.

Chengdu → Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (1 hour, including battery car) → Dujiangyan City → The Dujiangyan Irrigation System (1.5 hours, including battery car) → Chengdu

Today we will leave Chengdu and take the bullet train to the mountain city of Chongqing. Chongqing is a national historical and cultural city and the birthplace of Bayu culture. It has a history of more than 3,000 years and has been called "Natural Chongqing" since ancient times. After arriving in Chongqing, we will go to Jiefang Road Pedestrian Street and check in Hongyadong, an online celebrity.

Take the bullet train from Chengdu to Chongqing (including the second-class ticket) → People's Liberation Monument (30 mins) → Hong Ya Dong (1.5 hours)

Today we will go to Wulong Tiankeng, also known as Tiansheng Sanqiao, which is a rare ecological tourist area with geological wonders in the country and is a typical karst landform. The scenic spot is famous in the world for three majestic stone arch bridges, Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge and Heilong Bridge, which belong to the largest group of natural bridges in Asia. The Third Natural Bridge is located at the junction of Baiguo Township and Hetao Township, 20 kilometers southeast of Wulong City. The three natural stone arch bridges created by nature have the characteristics of majesty, strangeness, danger, beauty, seclusion and uniqueness. They have experienced tens of millions of years of development.

Chongqing → Wulong → Three Natural Bridges (3 hours)

Today we will go to the national 5A-level tourist attraction - Fairy Mountain National Forest Park, which is known as the "No. 1 Pasture in South China" and "Oriental Switzerland", its beautiful forest and grassland scenery is unique in Chongqing. Afterwards, we will return to Chongqing.

Fairy Mountain National Forest Park (1 hour) → Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (CKG)