D1 Chengdu / Sanxingdui / Panda Garden /Chengdu
In the morning, your guide will pick you up in your hotel, and leave for Sanxingdui ruins, a ruined city with a history of over 3000 years. It is about 1 hour’s driving from Chengdu. Arrive in the Musuem, and then we will visit the huge hall of Museum, in which will will enjoy thousands of pieces of invaluable relics such as bronze ware, jade ware, gold ware, pottery, and bone ware unearthed respectively. After the visit in musuem, we will enjoy a Chinese meal, and then drive to the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in 30 minutes, just 10 kms north to Chengdu, where you can see the lovely tender pandas eating and playing, also a good chance to take picture for them. It is free! The most amazing is that you can also hold a panda in your arms to take picture by donating some money for panda base. And it is also a pleasant experience to walk in the wide garden of bamboo. In the late afternoon, our driver will take you back your hotel.
D2 Chengdu / Leshan / Chengdu
In the morning your guide will pick-up you at hotel and then set off to Leshan city via the Chengle high way. In this two hours’ driving you will enjoy the flat Chengdu plain. And you can also see the hill of tea along the highway. Arrive in Leshan city, we will enjoy the sleeping Buddha from the other side of the Mingjiang River at first. We will have a Chinese lunch at local restaurant, Leshan is famous for its bean curd, and then we will head for the Giant Buhha. We will visit Linyun temple firstly, which is to commemerate monk Haitong, who collected donation 1000 years ago underthrough extremely difficulties and started the construction of this huge works. And then we will walk down the zig-zaging trail along the trail in the left side of Buddha. The Buddha is a small mountain, from it is head to shoulder, and from leg to foot, about 30 minutes hiking. And then we need to hike up from its right side again. It is also a good place to view Leshan city cross the joint of Minjiang River, Dadu River and Qingyi River. And then we will walk about 30 minutes to Wuyou temple, where we will the statue of 500 Arhats. In the late afternoon we will drive back to Chengdu via the high way. It is 2 hours driving again, just enough for you to have a short time’s nap in your car. Yes, it is a bit tired after the hiking in Buddha. Arrive in Chengdu in the late afternoon and then drop off you at your hotel. |