10-Day Best Of Sichuan

Tour Overview
This package tour of Sichuan including Chengdu, Emei and Jiuzhaigour. You'll explore the legendary Bashu culture, admire the Buddhist mountains and the wourld's biggest stone Buddha, drink tea in the teahouse with a strong smack of Chengdu's everyday life, play mahjong games with the locals, enjoy the authentic Sichuan hot pot, do volunteer work at Dujiangyan Panda Base,visit paradise of Jiuzhaigour,all will leave you a deep impression in your lifetime...

Day 1 Arrival in Chengdu (no meals)
Upon arrival at Chengdu airport, be met by an English-speaking guide and transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.  

 Day 2 Chengdu/Leshan/Mt. Emei (B, L)
After breakfast transfer to Leshan to visit the Giant Buddha, on the way visit Huanglongxi Ancient Town. After the visit of the Giant Buddha, transfer to Mt. Emeishan. If time permits, you will be transferred to visit Baoguo Temple at the foot of Emeishan. 

Note: If you want to do the boat tour in Leshan, please pay the admission fees yourselves.

Day 3 Mt. Emei (B, L)
Full day tour to visit Mt. Emei. First you will take a tourist bus for about 25 minutes to the parking lot of Wannian Temple, take the cable car up, visit Wannian Temple, walk through Qingyin Pavilion - the biggest natural ecology reserve area for monkeys, till you get to Wuxiangang parking lot to take the tourist bus down to the foot of the mountain. 

Day 4 Mt. Emei/Qianwei/Chengdu (B, L)
After breakfast transfer to Qianwei, catch the mini steam engine train from Shixi Town to Bagou Village. Later transfer to visit a coal mine. The pit at Huangcun, which was the No. 1 pit of the Jiayang Coal Mine and was abandoned some 20 years ago, is now open for sightseers to venture into and experience the working life of the miners. Dressed as a miner, tourists can get down into the 100m deep pit, searching the history of the first Sino-British joint venture coal mine in Sichuan and experiencing the hardships, joy and sorrow of the workers. Lunch will be arranged at Bagou Village. Take an afternoon train back to Shixi Town. Transfer back to Chengdu in the late afternoon.  

Day 5 Chengdu (B, L) 
After breakfast go to the Dujiangyan Panda Base. Your keeper uniform is your passport to go in and out of the research facility as many times as you please. Your volunteer work starts. You will be assigned a "Master"  one of the keepers of the center who will assist you and show you what needs to be done. You will be one of the staff and you are allowed into all restricted areas, getting in close contact with the bears. Some of your chores will be to help sweep the immaculate panda bins, take bamboo to the hillsides behind the bins, and best of all, feed the bears by hand. They are gentle creatures. In-between and after your working hours, you are free to roam the facility and take pictures. 

Day 6 Chengdu (B)
City tour of Chengdu today, you will visit Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, the Jinli Old Street, drink tea at Local Teahouse, learn to play Mahjong. In the evening watch Sichuan Opera at Shufengyayun Tea House. Dinner will be arranged at a hotpot restaurant.  

Day 7 Chengdu/Songpan (B)
Free day at leisure before transfer to airport for flight to Huanglong Chuanzhusi Airport. Overnight in guesthouse in Songpan Ancient town. 

Day 8 Songpan/Huanglong/Jiuzhaigou (B, L) 
Morning visit Songpan town and then head to visit Huanglong Reserve. Take cable car to the top and walk along the plant to the colorful ponds. Descend by foot and transfer to Jiuzhaigou in the late afternoon.
 
Day 9 Jiuzhaigou (B, L) 
Full day visit Jiuzhaigou National Reserve. It re-opens in 2020 after years of restorations and present same beautiful lakes, waterfalls and forests. 

Day 10 Jiuzhaigou Departure (B)
After breakfast transfer to airport for flight to your next destination.

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