Tour Code: IFH-CD-02
Tour days: 4 Days
Tailor your own winter break in Chengdu! This tour includes a close contact with the giant pandas. You will experience the local culture, taste the delicious food, and learn about some great names in history of China. Available for other seasons.
Transfer via: plane – your arrangement
Activities for today: Airport to hotel transfer
Upon arrival at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, you'll be warmly greeted and escorted to your hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure.
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Jinli Old Street, People's Park, Panda Post, Wuhou Temple
Morning 7:30 pick you up from you hotel and drive to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. You will catch the pandas' feeding time. You can still see the red panda in the Base. Later, watch the film at Panda Museum to know the pandas' daily life, baby panda getting birth, etc. After a happy time with the pandas, drive back to Chengdu downtown area for a leisure walking in the Jinli Old Street, where you can enjoy all kinds of local snacks and the traditional artifacts.
In the afternoon, proceed to visit People's Park to experience the most authentic Chengdu local life: having a cup of tea in a traditional teahouse, watching the old people dancing, joining in the locals to play Mahjong or cards in a teahouse. Then pay a visit to the Panda Post. Later, visit Wuhou Temple to learn some history and stories about the Three Kingdoms.
Optional night show: Sichuan Opera (the show is performed at a teahouse, lasts about 1.5 hours, with the wonderful face-changing)
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Green Ram Temple, Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Songxianqiao Art Market
Morning around 08:30 pick you up from your hotel, drive to visit Green Ram Temple (Qingyang Palace) which is a Taoism temple with a history of more than 1,000 years. Then visit Du Fu Thatched Cottage, the former residence of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu (712 -770 AD), now a park and museum in honour of him. Du Fu is a realist poet and extolled as the Sage of Poetry. Along with Li Bai (Li Bo), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.
After a hearty sichuan-style lunch, drive to visit Chengdu Songxianqiao Art Market, where you will find Chinese old paintings, unique Shu Brocade and Embroidery, bamboo products and antique staffs, ect. Have the wonderful taste of the vegetarian near the Wenshu Temple for dinner. Then drive back to your hotel.
Transfer via: plane – your arrangement
Activities for today: Hotel to airport transfer
Bid a fond farewell to Chengdu. After breakfast, you'll be escorted to the airport for your onward flight.