5 Days Chengdu-Leshan Tour

Arriving in Chengdu, you will be greeted by the local guide at the airport or railway station. You take the private vehicle to the reserved hotel which is handy-picked by Topchinatravel. With the assistance of the guide, check in the hotel and free at leisure for the rest of the day.

Tips :
1.    Have a good rest at hotel to overcome the jet leg if Chengdu is the 1st city you arrive in China.
2.  Change some money at airport, hotel or local bank with assistance from the guide or you can also withdraw CNY cash from ATM machine directly.

In the early morning, pick up from your hotel and transfer to visit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding which is about 10 km from Chengdu downtown. This beautifully laid out park is the home of about 80 giant pandas and some other rare animals, such as red panda, black-necked crane, white crane ect. Walking along the excellently designed walkways, you could have a good angle through the open enclosures of giant pandas.

The best time to visit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is the morning when the pandas are most active in the day. Depart from hotel early in the morning, and arrive at the center before 09:00 am, then you could have chance to see the pandas feeding at around 09:30 am. After the feeding time, you could choose to visit Panda Museum and watch a 20-minute video at Panda Theatre to learn about the research and breeding of the giant pandas. Then walk along the walkways to watch pandas or other rare animals. Besides, you could also choose to deliver a postcard or other panda souvenir from the Panda Post to yourself or your family and friends. The Panda Post is the only post office who has its own post code 610088 and post date mark.

Have a Chinese lunch with traditional Sichuan Hotpot at local restaurant. Then visit Jinsha Ruins Museum, which is the museum established in the Jinsha ruins site, and is also a museum to show categories of ancient Shu culture in Sichuan area during Shang and Zhou dynasty.

At night you can enjoy a traditional opera show as an optional activity at night (show time: 20:00-21:30) 

Sichuan Opera, also Shu Opera, is famous for the performance of Face Changing. There are three theaters to see the show in Chengdu, such as Sichuan Opera Theater, Shufeng Yayun Theater, Chengdu Jinjiang theater, the tickets price is around CNY 200/P.P. Drop off at your hotel in the downtown of Chengdu.

Our guide will meet you at your hotel around 8:00am, then drive about 2.5 hours to visit Leshan Giant Buddha. We will take the boat trip to have an unforgettable panoramic view of the huge Buddha statue.

After visiting the Giant Buddha, we will head to a local  laid-back town which keeps the traditional countryside lifestyles far away  from the fast urbanization of China. Walking in the town, we can see the traditional workshops such the blacksmith's, bamboo workshop, barber shop etc. Enjoying a cup of tea while chatting and sharing stories with the friendly  local people in an old teahouse,  afterwards, visiting a hundred-year-old courtyard whose owners are proud of the heritage and  readily to share the story of the house and family.

Then, we Will have a short ride to the mountain nearby where the tea farmers will take us to the tea field. Learn the skills of how to pick the best tea sprouts and buds, and the knowlege of growing tea from weather conditions to soil fertilizing, and each of us can   pick  some tea from the tea bushes.

Afterward, visiting a tea merchant family to reveal the process of making  tea. We can sit down in front of the farm house and enjoy a cup of fresh tea like a local before we drive back to Chengdu, end the tour in Chengdu after dropping you off at your hotel. 

Leisure breakfast in your hotel, we will start today's trip with a hotel pick-up. A trip to visit Sichuan Cuisine Museum is arranged this morning.  At the Museum, you will not only realize the history of Sichuan Cuisine, but also have chance to watch the whole procedure of cooking and practice cooking Sichuan food.

You will have a leisure afternoon in Chengdu downtown. We will bring to Chengdu People's Park, where you will find many locals dancing, doing exercise, playing card, playing Mahjong, ear-picking, marriage seeking ect in the park. They enjoy the leisure time in the park. If you are interested in, you could try to join in them. We will take a seat in a tea house, having a cup of tea to feel the local's leisure life.

After that we will show your way to walk around the famous Kuanzhai Alley which consists of several ancient streets of Ming and Qing Dynasty. We will have a stop at a Chinese style Starbucks where you could have a cup of coffee to enjoy the leisure afternoon.

Optional Event: Jinjaing River Night Cruise Tour—— Starting from the pier of Huoshui Park in the north and ending at Donghu Park in the south, the night tour of Jinjiang connects the 10 kilometer upstream line, organically linking the historical and cultural figures, cultural relics, and scenes of Chengdu. Flowing downstream from Dongmen Pier, the dazzling light and shadow shows and immersive waterfront performances along the way vividly narrate the past and present of Jinjiang.

Today, you are free at leisure before transferred to airport/ railway station to catch the flight/train for your home or next destination.