Day Tour in Chengdu

Highlights

Leistungen

Ablauf

1. 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Hotel Pickup.The guide will be waiting in your hotel lobby (or at the appointed location) at the appointed time (usually between 7am and 8am) with a Trippest banner so that you can recognize him or her immediately. You'll join a group with no more than 10 members, a good size for a better tour experience.

   1 Std.

2. 8:00 AM – 8:40 AM Drive to Chengdu Panda Base After picking up all the group members we will head to our first destination – Chengdu Panda Base. As you know, Chengdu is a paradise for pandas. Now at least 5 places are opened to the public for seeing pandas in the city and its environs. In order to save your precious time and visit with a best possible experience, we choose Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base (Chengdu Panda Base) as the first choice. You may also have a chance to see cute newborn panda babies here.

   40 Min.

3. 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Visit Pandas To make sure you have a better experience, we have designed the best possible routes to avoid crowds and queues, and save your time, so you have more time to see pandas and take photos! Pandas are more than good-looking and cute, they are special! Join us to find out a full story of how do they live and why do they live in Sichuan. You might not know, the giant panda has been downgraded from endangered to vulnerable species. Follow your tour guide to learn more about what we have done and how human being to protect these cute nature treasures.

   2 Std.Eintritt inbegriffen

4. 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Drive to Chengdu and Enjoy a Hot pot Lunch at a Local Chengdu Restaurant It's about 40-minute driving back to Chengdu downtown. We'll drive to a local restaurant to have a Chengdu Hot pot lunch. Lunch fee is not included in the pricing. While in Chengdu you should not miss hot-pot! It is not only a meal but also a local cultural phenomenon. Because of the hot and humid weather in summer and cold and wet weather in winter, Chengdu locals love to eat hot-pot, especially spicy hot-pot, as hot-pot helps to remove the moisture in your body to keep you healthy. Nowadays there are hot-pot restaurants in almost every street in Chengdu, more than 30,000 in the city, and now hot-pot is famous the world over. You may have seen hot-pot restaurants in your own country, right? Today we'll head to one of the most famous hot-pot restaurants in Chengdu, highly recommended by local people, to experience the original Chengdu hot-pot.

   2 Std.

5. 2:50 PM – 4:30 PM Experience the Unique Local Leisurely Lifestyle in Chengdu People's Park After the opera show, we'll head to Chengdu People's Park and you'll see how Chengdu locals spend their free time and observe their unique culture and leisurely lifestyle. You'll see people gathering in tea houses, drinking tea, and playing mahjong. You'll see earwax-cleaning services, old ladies singing and dancing, and parents putting advertisements in the marriage market for their adult children. Slow down, and put down your burdens. Let's have a cup of tea and enjoy life just as these Chengdu locals do!

   1,7 Std.

6. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Drive Back to Your Hotel After visiting Chengdu People's Park our trip comes to an end. You will be dropped off at your hotel (or other appointed place).

   1 Std.

7. 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Visit a Local Chengdu Opera Tea House and Explore the Backstage. In the grass-root style opera house, lots of old fans gather round here everyday, meet up friends and enjoy the show. You can be one of them, watching the performance and drinking tea. But the most interesting part of this place, you have a chance to go into their backstage to see how the actors and actresses make up and rehearse.

   1 Std.

Stornierung

Kostenlose Stornierung bis 24 Stunden vor Beginn, mit voller Rückerstattung.

Gut zu wissen

How it compares in Chengdu

• Its from-price is 38% above the median of the 783 experiences we list in Chengdu.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Chengdu

Chengdu is the Sichuan capital where giant pandas, tea houses, Three Kingdoms shrines and blazing hotpot define an easygoing western Chinese city.

Chengdu is best known as the home of the giant panda, and a breeding and research base on the northern edge lets visitors watch pandas feeding and climbing. In town, the Wuhou Shrine honours Zhuge Liang and other heroes of the Three Kingdoms period, while Du Fu's Thatched Cottage preserves the garden where the Tang poet lived. Wenshu Monastery and Qingyang Palace are working Buddhist and Daoist temples.

Top-ranked sights in Chengdu: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Leshan Giant Buddha (Da Fo), Kuan Zhai Alley (Kuan Zhai Xiang Zi).

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