10-day Grand Sichuan Tour

  • Day 1 Arrival in Chengdu

    Upon arrival at Chengdu airport, be met by your local guide and transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day.

  • Day 2 Chengdu/Leshan/Mt. Emei
    Meals: B, L
    Visited: Leshan Giant Buddha,

    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. Emei. If time permits, you will be transferred to visit Baoguo Temple at the foot of Emeishan.

  • Day 3 Mt. Emei
    Meals: B, L
    Visited: Emei Mountain,

    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
    Meals: B, L

    After breakfast transfer to Qianwei County, catch the mini steam engine train from Shixi Town to Bagou Town. 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 Town. Take an afternoon train back to Shixi Town. Transfer Back to Chengdu.

  • Day 5 Chengdu/Mt. Qingcheng/Dujiangyan
    Meals: B, L
    Visited: Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Qingchengshan Mountain,

    Drive to Mt. Qingcheng for a pilgrimage to Taoist Holy Mountain, then proceed to Dujiangyan Irrigation Project to see the aqueduct used for more than 2200 years. Transfer to the Dujiangyan panda base, where you will apply for the necessary permit and sign the agreement to be a panda volunteer. Then you will get the special working clothes, gloves etc. and learn how to be a panda volunteer from your teacher.

  • Day 6 Dujiangyan Base Panda Base
    Meals: B, L

    Today, you will wear the working clothes and have a happy full-day work in the panda base. Your work schedule will be:

    08:30 Clean the panda's house/garden.
    10:00 Put the fresh bamboo into the enclosures for the pandas' breakfast.
    11:00 Watch the pandas' activity and help the scientists to collect their behavior data.
    14:30 Feed the animals with bamboo bread, apples and carrots. Then free the pandas in the enclosure and watch their activity. This time you may help the veterinary to do the medicine care for the pandas.
    16:00 End the job.

  • Day 7 Dujiangyan Panda Base/Chengdu
    Meals: B, L

    Full-day work with your teacher in the Panda Base. Return the working clothes and gloves. Enjoy dinner with your teacher and then get a volunteer certificate issued by China Panda Protection and Research Center. In the evening, drive back to hotel in Chengdu .

  • Day 8 Chengdu
    Meals: B, L
    Visited: Shangli Old Town,

    Today, first you will be transferred to visit an old town called - Shangli Old Town. Then transferred back to Chengdu (about 3 hours). Your guide will escort you to visit the Jinsha Ruins & Museum, then you will visit a large vegetable and meat market and other local markets if time permits.

  • Day 9 Chengdu
    Meals: B, L
    Visited: Jinli Old Street, Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Qingyang Palace,

    Today you will visit the Qingyang Palace, which is the oldest and largest Taoist temple in the area, and it is also designated to be a key national temple of Taoism by the State Council; Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, which is an idyllic 24-acre (97,000 m2) park and museum in honor of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu at the western outskirts of Chengdu, adjacent to the Huanhua Xi, (Flower Rinsing Creek); the Jinli Old Street to mingle with the locals, 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 10 Chengdu Departure
    Meals: B

    After breakfast transfer to Chengdu airport and fly to your next destination.

Price Includes:

Transportation & Private Transfers:

Transportation cost covers all the domestic airfare of economy class with airport tax, train tickets between the cities as the itinerary specified.


Transfer between airports, railway station, hotels and scenic spots for sightseeing around the cities that are specified by the itinerary with private air conditioned vehicle with driver and English-speaking guide. Separate arrivals and departures will incur extra charges.


Entrance Fees:

All entrance fees to the scenic spots listed in the itinerary. The final arrangement will be determined by private tour guides depends on the real-time local circumstances wheather are beyond the control of Access China Travel. We will adhere to the original itinerary as accurately as possible.


Normal Meals:

All normal meals as the itinerary specified: B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = dinner in local restaurant. Breakfasts are served in hotel, breakfasts have Chinese or Western style for your option; Lunches are served in carefully selected quality local Chinese restaurants with best service, your lunches will be ordered by your guide catering to your preferences within normal standard. Dinners as the itinerary specified will be also served in local Chinese restaurants. The meal quotation is normalized. If you have any special request about meals, like vegetarian, famous rare dishes, Indian food or more, please inform us in advance. For the unspecified dinners, you will have dinner on your own. Feel free to ask your local guide for suggestions or recommendation.


Private Sightseeing Escort:

Normal sightseeing activities as the itinerary listed will be escorted with English-speaking guide. The English-speaking guide and driver in each city are with you throughout the entire itinerary around that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.


Hotel Accommodation:

Hotel service criterion: two adults share on one standard twin/double-bed room; solo traveler who want to occupy one twin/double-bed room assigned is required for extra single supplement rate. A single room is available on prior request at an additional cost; if a recommended hotel unavailable, it will be replaced by one of the same class. All hotels as the itinerary listed serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.


Tour Arrangements:

The tour cost includes the planning, handling, booking, operation and communication charges.

Service Charge & Government Taxes

Price Excludes:

International airfare or train tickets for entry or exit China, unless that is noted or required otherwise.

Visa Fees, passport application or renewal fee.

Excess Baggage Charges.
Personal Expenses:
Expenses of a purely personal nature such as excess luggage fees, laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities (shows) and meals, beverages...

Meals:
Any meal are not specified in the itinerary with "B", "L" or "D".
Any extra cost caused by the changes of natural disasters, fires, weather, government and local authority orders, politics, strikes, war, riots, quarantine, custom regulations; as well as tourist law violation, accident damages or injury incurred out of Access China Travel control.

Gratuities:
Tips to guides, escort, drivers bellman, etc.