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Private Day Tour: Chengdu Panda Breeding Base and Sanxingdui Museum

Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding

  • 8 hours
  • Free cancellation up to 24h before
  • 2 languages
  • Instant confirmation

Highlights

Spend your morning observing stunning pandas at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Base. A private guide will be with you to show you around the facility before heading to the Sanxingdui Museum in the afternoon. There, you will admire the striking exhibits that hold massive cultural importance to those in Chengdu. After your 8-hour day, your guide will bring you back to your accommodations.

Inclusions

What's included

  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • English-speaking guide for private tour
  • Highway tolls, fuel charges, parking fee
  • Entrance ticket fee for private tour
  • Comfortable car or bus
  • Options: Private tour or Car rental service

What's not

  • Lunch; Tips to tour guide and driver.
  • Optional activities and excursions not specified in the itinerary

Itinerary

  1. At approximately 8:30am, your tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel within 3rd ring of Chengdu. Then, transfer to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, also known as Chengdu Panda Base. Here, you can explore the daily life of these beautiful creatures and observe them eating bamboo at their active time (9:00am to 11:00am).

    1.5 hAdmission included

  2. In the afternoon, visit the Sanxingdui Museum, the ruins of the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom from over 4,000 years ago, also located in Guanghan City. The cultural relics at Sanxingdui are precious and contain rich historical, cultural, and scientific value. They bespeak themselves as the most attractive ones amongst the multitude of the spectacular relics in China. The discovery of Sanxingdui predates 2,000 years of Sichuan's history and proves that the upper reaches of the Yangtze and the Yellow River region are the cradle of the Chinese civilization. After tour, your guide will transfer you back to your hotel in downtown Chengdu.

    1.5 hAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Know before you go

Pickup
Pickup is included for everyone.
Ticket type
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group size
Up to 15 travellers
Operated by
China Tour Company
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Passport name and number is required at time of booking for all participants for Travel Insurance
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately

How it compares in Chengdu

  • Its from-price is 16% below the median of the 212 day trips 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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