6 Days Chengdu Leshan Emei Dujiangyan Panda Holding Tour

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This unique itinerary will take you to witness the largest stone Buddha in the world, the awe-inspiring Mt. Emei, the breathtaking sea of clouds, and offers you a rare chance to play with the cute Giant Pandas and take a memorable picture with them. You’ll also experience real Chengdu traditional life and taste delicious featured Sichuan cuisine in Chengdu downtown. The 6-day tour will show you distinctive charm and beauty of Chengdu.

Start: Chengdu
Physical Demands: Very leisure Tour
End: Chengdu
Best Time to Visit: All year round
Destination: Chengdu - Leshan Giant Buddha - Emeishan - Dujiangyan Panda Base - Dujiangyan Irrigation System - Chengdu
Tour Type: Private tour

Highlights

[Jinsha Site Museum] Learn the past of Chengdu city 3,000 years ago;
[Wenshu Temple] See the local prayers worshiping and lighting incense;
[Leshan Giant Buddha] Visit the tallest stone Buddha statue with 71m height in the world, which was carved on the cliff;
[Emei Mountain] Hike and take cable car to Golden Summit to enjoy the awe-inspiring view and the breathtaking sea of clouds;
[Dujiangyan Panda Base] Take photos with a cute Giant Panda at Dujiangyan Panda Base;
[Dujiangyan Irrigation System] Visit the oldest and only surviving no-dam irrigation system in the world.

Day by Day Itinerary

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Day 1: Chengdu Tour: Jinsha Site Museum, Wenshu Temple, Renmin Park, Jinli Ancient Street

Jinsha Site Museum

Jinli Old Street

Today, your Chengdu trip will begin from Jinsha Site Museum. After picked up by our local guides at airport and escorted to the hotel in Chengdu downtown, you can have a short rest and then take a meaningful visit to Jinsha Site Museum. Constructed on the Jinsha ruin site which reveals the unique bronze civilization of the mysterious ancient Shu Kingdom (approximately 2900-3200 years ago), Jinsha Site Museum is a large park complex covering 74 acres of land and contains 3,000 years-old artifacts. Visiting in the museum, you can see many of the thousands of gold, bronze, jade, and stone objects reflecting the level of productivity and how people lived in Sichuan 3000 years ago.

Next, we will drive back to downtown and visit some incity popular spots. The first is Wenshu Temple, the famous Buddhist monastery of western Sichuan in which conserves many precious cultural relics and ten thousand of Buddhist scriptures and literature. You can have a taste of the famous snacks bean jelly and other gourmets outside the temple.

After lunch, we will drive to Renmin Park, a park with a history frequented by local people, to spend some leisure time afternoon. Here, you can see many people taking exercises, playing majiang, drinking teas and chatting with friends or boating on the lake. Parallel of teahouses crowded with guests drinking teas and enjoying the good weather constitutes an unique scenery of the park.

In the late afternoon, we will reach Jinli Ancient Street, another must-see destination for travelers and a business street built by traditional western Sichuan dwellings characteristics. Here you will gain a lot of interesting experience like seeing handicraftsman making sugar figures or hanging around in quaint stores or having a rest in various bars, teashouses and cafe houses. When night approaches and lamps are lighten up, you will witness the true beauty of this traditional street. It’s a good time for you to take some pictures.

Stay overnight in Chengdu

Day 2: Leshan Tour: Leshan Giant Buddha

Leshan Giant Buddha

Baoguo Temple

150 kilometers away, Leshan is in the south of Chengdu, the home to world-famous Leshan Giant Buddha. Today we will drive to Leshan to see this world architectural wonder. In the morning after breakfast, your guide will pick you up in the hotel and drive for 1 hour 50 min to visit the biggest sitting Buddha sculpture in the Lingyun Temple. Sitting at the confluence of three rivers, The grand Buddha was completed in 803 AD of Tang Dynasty after 90 year's construction and enjoys the fame of the biggest sitting stone sculpture in the world, about 71- meter in height. It was carved on the cliff of Lingyun Mountain in order to suppress the flood. Tour guide will take you to walk along the path built on the cliff face of the hill from the top of Buddha’s head to his toes, or you can choose taking a sightseeing boat from the pier to the water surface in front of Giant Buddha to watch the huge Buddha from the river.

After visiting the Buddha, move on to Mt. Emei and check in hotel, near Baoguo Temple. After a short break, go to visit Baoguo Temple, the biggest temple of Emeishan.

Stay overnight in Mt. Emei

Day 3: Emei Tour: Emei Mountain

Emei Mountain

Golden Summit at Emei Mountain

Get up early in the morning, and take the sightseeing bus to Leidongping. You will hike to Jieyin Palace and then take the cable car up to the Golden Summit (altitude: 3077m). At the highest peak of the mountain, you will be amazed by the awe-inspiring view of Huazhang Temple and witness the breathtaking sea of clouds if it is sunny. In the Golden Summit, you will also see Wanfoding, the main peak of Mount Emei at 3099 meters. It not only makes Emei Mountain the highest nature scenic spot among the Four Most Sacred Buddhist Mountians, but also the highest World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site in China.

In the afternoon, you'll take a cable car down to Jieyin Palace, then walk 15-20 minutes to Leidongping for the sightseeing bus to Wannian Temple Parking Lot. Take a cable car up to Wannian Temple at the middle of the mountain; appreciate the most beautiful landscape of Mt. Emei in Qingyin Pavilion as you hike from Wannian Temple to Wuxiangang Parking Lot.

After tour, be transferred back to your hotel in Chengdu downtown.

Stay overnight in Chengdu

Day 4: Dujiangyan Tour: Dujiangyan Panda Holding

Giant Panda in Winter

Dujiangyan Panda Holding

Today, you will experience one of a highlights of your tour. In the early morning, your tour guide & driver will pick you up from your hotel in Chengdu, and drive about 1 hour to the Dujiangyan Panda Base and assist you to sign up to get a uniform and gloves. Your guide will introduce you to the professional panda keepers. The panda keepers will guide you to meet the cute panda. You will make your magical experience even more memorable by upgrading to hold a giant panda. Get your photos taken as you hold an adorable panda in an intimate environment. The money raised by upgrading is donated to the non-profit center to continue vital research into the endangered species.

Notice: Tourists are allowed to take pictures with a panda next to them for about 30 seconds. The donation amount is CNY1,800 per person. Only 30 tourists are allowed to take close-up photos with pandas each day, so please try to book in advance. Sometimes the program listed in the description could be adjusted according to health condition of the pandas. Please confirm with us in advance.

Stay overnight in Dujiangyan

Day 5: Dujiangyan Tour: Dujiangyan Irrigation System

Dujiangyan Irrigation Project

After breakfast, we will go to see the world famous Dujiangyan Irrigation System during which you can have a short break on the vehicle. Dujiangyan is a great engineering paralleled to the Great Wall in the civilization history of China. It is the only oldest grand water conservancy engineering in the world so far that piloted the water without a dam. Yu Zui, Feishayan and Baoping Estuary are three projects inseparably interconnected, addressing problems of automatic bypass flow, desilting, and water inlet control of the river in a scientific way. In over two thousands years, the ancient weirs have lead surging Minjiang River into the vast Chengdu plain, creating the rich and beautiful “heavenly state”where people control the water. Climbing on the Yulei Pavilion, you will have a bird’s eye view of the whole Dujiangyan project. After visitation, we will drive back to Chengdu downtown.

Stay overnight in Chengdu

Day 6: Chengdu Departure

Today is free for you to have a rest in hotel or explore Chengdu at your leisure until we will transfer you to the airport or train station for your next destination.

Price Inclusions

Transportation

Private transportation to the destinations and sites listed in the itinerary; ranging from 4WD land cruiser to bus depending on the group size and trip route; car gasoline, road toll and in-transport refreshments (free bottles of water, air pillow and headscarf) are included;

Accomodation

Meals

Meals listed in the itinerary;

Service

Private experienced English-speaking trip leader;
Airport/railway station pick-up and send-off services at the beginning/end of the tour;
Entrance ticket fees for all the sight spots listed in the itinerary;
First aid kit;
A coverage of 300,000RMB Chartis travel insurance;

Price Exclusions

International and domestic flight/train to Shanghai (Note: we accept the domestic flight/train tickets booking to Shanghai from other cities in advance, check the updated ticket availibility and cost with your travel consultant);
Meals that are not specified in the itinerary (Averagely a meal in the 3rdpole region cost 3~10USD per person);
Tips and gratuities for the trip leader and driver;
The expense of a personal nature like alcoholic beverages, laundry, phone call, etc;
Optional activities and excursions not specified in the itinerary;
China Entry visa fees;