Chengdu Pandas & Culture Essence City Tour

Chengdu Panda Base & Culture Essence 2 Day City Tour

A tour within downtown Chengdu packaged of pandas and cultural sites. For local Chengdu People, especially the elders, going to a tea house to lean back in the bamboo chairs is quite a common thing in their daily life. All the day they just drink some tea, relax, chat or play Majiang, let the day pass by. To touch real Chengdu, the traditional tea house should not be missed. Kuan Zhai Alley is composed of wide alley and narrow alley, in which there are a lot of traditional Siheyuan (courtyards). It is one of the hottest tourist destinations in Chengdu that well worth a visit. The triumph of Jinli Street lies in the perfect combination of local culture and business. Three Kingdom culture block, including the Wuhou Shrine and Jinli Old Street, is quite attractive not only for its historical legend, but also for the ancient-style buildings coming down from Ming and Qing Dynasties.Wangjiang Pavilion is once upon a time the symbol of Chengdu. Named Chongli in the past, Wangjiang Pavilion refers to the most magnificent architecture along the Jinjiang River. Du Fu Thatched Cottage used to be the former home of Du Fu (712-770 AD), one of the three greatest poets in the Tang Dynasty. Like Shakespeare in English tradition, Du Fu's poetry came to be so deeply bound up with the constitution of literary value that generation after generation of poets and critics rediscovered themselves and their interests in some aspect of the poet. In the cottage he had a simple and peaceful life for three years, writing about 240 poems that were mostly inspired by the cottage, the stream nearby and the scenery in Chengdu. These poems give the impression that he was happier in Chengdu than any other time in his life. Most of the unearthed pieces of Jinsha Ruins can date back some 3,000 years ago. Many of the relics bear strong resemblance to those at Sanxingdui Ruins. Archaeologists hold the opinion that excavations at the Jinsha Ruins have changed Chengdu's history and proved once again that Chinese civilization has very diverse roots.

HIGHLIGHTS

*Make a visit to Du Fu's thatched cottage with ancient style architecture, pavilion pagodas and age-old trees

*View the symbol of World Intangible Heritage - Sun Holy Bird golden piece

TRIP INFORMATION

- Tour code: CPT-CT-08

- Price: from $233 p/p

- Tour type: private tour

- Departure date: flexible

- Travel route: Chengdu

- Trip length: 2 Days

Detailed itinerary:

As the hometown of Giant Panda, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding should not be missed when you come to Chengdu! In the morning your private tour guide and driver will be greeting at the hotel, and then you are going to see the lovely creatures. Located in northern suburb of Chengdu, this Panda Base takes us about 40-50 minutes to get there from downtown area. In this park-like base, you are sure to see many pandas at one time that we cannot realize in other places all over the world.

Wave goodbye to the lovely pandas, transfer to Jinsha Ruins, which is a rare museum among Chinese museums because of its combination of modern civilization and the civilization of ancient Shu State, as well as the combination of ecological environment and culture. Jinsha Site Museum is built to protect and display the archaeological finds of Jinsha Site, which probably dates back to about 3,000 years ago.

Chengdu Panda Base, Jinsha Ruins & People's Park City Tour

DAY1

Later move steps to People’s Park, the first park set in Chengdu City. It has 100 years of history and now become one of the most popular parks of Chengdu. In the morning you will be picked up by your private guide and driver, then transfer to People’s Park at first. There are many old people doing exercises group by group. Some of them are practicing sword, some are playing Tai Chi. Chengdu’s leisure life and slow pace is well known in China that just a walking in the park you can easily find out. The traditional teahouse inside People's Park is with over 100 years history. If you like, you can choose to drink some tea in the traditional tea house inside People’s Park.

Transfer back to hotel in the late afternoon.

In the morning, visit Wangjiang Pavilion. Standing by the Jinjiang River, it has long been the symbol of Chengdu City. Get up on the pavilion to enjoy a nice view of Jinjiang River, Chengdu’s mother river. Then shift your sight to Tang Dynasty, to visit Dufu Thatched Cottage that is well-known as the former residence of Du fu, the great poet which could be compared as Shakespear. The cottage is constituted of six important parts, namely the Front Gate, the Lobby, the Hall of Poem History, the Water Pavilion, the Gongbu (the Ministry of Works in feudal China) Shrine and the Thatched Cottage.

Have lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch, transfer to Temple of Marquis, or Wuhou Shrine, which was built up to commemorate two famous people in history. One is Emperor Liu Bei, the other is the Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, and both of them were of Shu kingdom in the period of Three Kingdoms Dynasty. It is the only temple in China where the Emperor and his Minister were sacrificed together.

Wangjiang Pavillion, Dufu Thatched Cottage, Wuhou Shrine & Jinli Old Street City Tour

DAY2

Get knowledge of Three Kingdom culture, and then walk a few steps to Jinli Old Street that is just near the temple. You shall walk on its paved road, looking for the essence of Chengdu’s daily life: tea house, pub, snacks, local specialties and handicraft arts. Surrounded by old-world stores selling lacquer products, curios, clay figurines, paper cuts, calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, you can touch a real Chengdu life.

Enjoy yourselves to the late afternoon, and then be transferred back to the hotel.

√ China Panda Tour's experienced travel consultant 1 on 1 service 24hours/7days from inquiry to back home;

√ Entrance tickets to listed viewpoints in the itinerary & necessary shuttle bus/cable car/sightseeing bus tickets;

√ Escorted by experienced English-speaking tour guide;

√ Meals mentioned in the itinerary;

√ Private transfers with professional driver between hotel/attraction/airport/railway station/restaurant as listed in the itinerary;

√ Booking of flight/train/cruise tickets per your preferences;

√ Accommodation in each city, hotel level/feature is decided by your choice;

√ Traveler's accidental insurance.

OUR SERVICE INCLUDES:

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-- This itinerary can be flexibly adjusted according to your requests. You can change the order, or extend the tour with more cities or days, or even shorten it with deleting any cities or days. Our professional travel consultant will help you revise the itinerary until suiting your schedule.

-- China Panda Tour also provides French/German/Spanish/Russian/Cantonese/Mandarin-speaking tour guide service.

-- If you only want to rent a car for your trip, please kindly inform us. China Panda Tour's professional drivers would provide you with satisfying service.

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