- Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi) - Your private Chengdu tour starts in the early morning around 7am when your guide and driver pick you up from your hotel or the airport.
You will then head to the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in the suburb, just 10 kms north of Chengdu, where you can see the lovely pandas making various funny movements as they eat and play. There is a great possibility to visit pandas and also walk in the wide and fresh garden of bamboo, which is a pleasant experience.
- Leshan Giant Buddha (Da Fo) - After visiting the panda garden, drive to Leshan which is about 2 hours on the express way. The wide spreading landscape of the Chengdu plain will not be boring. For lunch, you will enjoy delicious local Chinese Cuisine.
After lunch, your tour guide will show you the wonder of the Leshan Giant Buddha located on the side of the Minjiang river, also known as “ Buddha is the hill and the hill is a Buddha.” First, you will visit Linyun Temple, which is to commemorate the monk Hai Tong, who collected donations 1000 years ago under difficult conditions and started the construction of this huge work. You will then walk down the zigzagging trail along the left side of Buddha. The Buddha is a small mountain, from its head to its shoulder, and from its leg to its foot is about 30 minutes hiking.
You will then hike up the right side which is a good place to view Leshan city across the intersection of Minjiang River, Dadu River and Qingyi River. At last, if time permitted, you could go on to pay a visit of Wuyou temple, where you will enjoy the statue of 500 Arhats.
After Hiking, you can take a cruise along the rivers to see the Buddha from the water (optional program - need to pay extra money about $12 USD).
In the late afternoon your driver will take 2 hours driving on the express way again. Just enough time for you to have a short nap in your vehicle. While arriving in Chengdu in the late afternoon, your guide and driver will escort you back to your hotel or the airport. End this excursion tour with plenty of great memories.
- Complimentary city hotel pickup and drop-off
- Personal insurance coverage
- All service charges and government taxes included
- Traditional Chinese lunch at a local restaurant
- Private air-conditioned vehicle with dedicated driver
- Tickets to Chengdu Giant Panda Base and Leshan Giant Buddha
- Exclusive English-speaking tour guide
- The cruise of Leshan Buddha; if you want to take a cruise, you need to pay extra $12 per person
- Tianfu airport pick-up or drop-off, need to pay extra accordingly.
Embark on a one-day journey to witness the adorable Giant Pandas and the magnificently large Leshan Buddha. The Giant Pandas, revered as national treasures, call China, specifically Sichuan province, their exclusive home. Chengdu is globally recognized as the habitat of these cuddly pandas and the best location to learn and appreciate them is at the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base. Here, over 90 pandas can be observed frolicking and playing in a semi-exposed yard. Additionally, the trip will expose you to the grandeur of the Leshan Giant Buddha, the world’s largest Buddha statue, epitomizing the phrase ‘The Buddha is a mountain, and the mountain is a Buddha.’
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