Ancient Chengdu Tour

Your tour guide will be waiting at the arrival hall of airport with a name plate and welcoming smile. Transfer to your hotel by private car and driver, your tour guide will help you check in and ensure everything is ok at the hotel.

Today kicks start after breakfast at hotel. Drive about one hour to Dujiangyan Irrigation Project, which has been and still is nourishing the whole Chengdu Basin, for well over 2000 years.
Continue to Yuecheng Lake and enjoy its natural beauty and fresh air on a boat. Take cable car up Mount Qingcheng, the origin place and the most important center of Taoism. Enrolled as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Mount Qingcheng is home to many Taoist temples and historical sites amongst verdant trees and winding paths.
Transfer back to your hotel in Chengdu and stay overnight.

Chengdu Panda Base is home to Giant Pandas, Red Pandas and some other endangered species. Visit the nursery to see the highly successful breeding program, among the bamboo groves and shady walkways, and to view the pandas at rest or play.

Good to Know

The Panda Breeding and Research Center has a donation program which allows you take pictures of holding a panda for about one minute by donating RMB 2,000 Yuan (for reference only). Only 20 tourists are allowed to hold pandas a day. If you want to hold a panda, please tell your travel advisor or tour guide in advance because you must book it at least one week in advance.This program is subject to the availability of pandas on that day. Please bring enough RMB cash as payment by credit card is not accepted there.

After one hour’s drive, you will reach Sanxingdui Ruins. Amongst all the precious relics unearthed, the 1.38-meter-wide bronze mask is one of a kind. This is the best place for getting to know about the ancient history, culture and art of ancient Sichuan Province. 

Drive back to your hotel in Chengdu and stay overnight. 

Wuhou Temple was built in memory of an outstanding Chinese military strategist back in the 3rd century. Walk around and see the peaceful gardens, calligraphy steles and red walls of this delightful complex. Continue to stroll along Jinli Street to feel the essence of old Chengdu, such as tea houses, opera stages and traditional handicrafts.
Lunch is arranged at a local restaurant for authentic Chengdu hotpot. Your tour guide will help you with ordering and eating etiquette. The tour wraps up with transfer to airport by private car and driver. Your tour guide will escort you to check in and wave goodbye at security check point.