Overview:
In this special Chengdu tour, we will take travelers to try various delicious local foods as well as present them essence of tours. The restaurants may not be in the fancy and expensive restaurants, but they are deeply loved by locals. It is a tour of life-standing memory!
Atttractions: Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center, Wenshu Temple, Lunch of Vegetarian food,Hotpot
Meal: Not Included
Accomodation: Ovenight in Chengdu
Your Chengdu tour starts from sightseeing tour firstly, the guide will pick up you and then head for the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in the suburb, just 10 kms north to Chengdu, where you can see the lovely adult pandas and panda babies making various funny movement in eating and playing, also it is a good chance to take picture for them. This gorgeous experience must makes you linger over.
After the tour in Panda garden, you will head for Wenshu Temple in the city. It is just time for lunch, and you will have a lot of delicious food of chicken, pork, fish, etc here. You may heard that eating meat are forbidden in Buddhism doctrine, how can temple sells meat here! But don’t worry, it is vegetarian food, all of the foods are made from vegetable, just look like!
After the lunch, guide will show you around in this ancient temple, and then head for Bamboo Garden, also called Wangjiang Park, and built 1000 years ago.
It is almost the time for dinner now! At this dinner, we will present the most popular food, Hot Pot for you. Hot Pot is warmly welcomed by locals, people think it a good way of friends and family reunion besides its delicious taste. No matter in hot summer or in cold winter, the restaurants are always full of happy customers.
After dinner our guide will take you back your hotel, and your tour will be finished today.
Atttractions: Luocheng Old Town, Leshan Giant Buddha, Mom-make Rabbit Head
Meal: Not Included
Accomodation: Overnight in Chengdu
Your Chengdu tour starts from Locheng Old town. Your guide will send you to Locheng Old Town in about 2 hours on the express way. You will enjoy the wide Sichuan plain en route.
Luocheng Old Street still remains in its original state of none tourism due to it’s out of beaten track of tourist.
After tour in Luocheng, you will continue half an hour’s driving to Leshan. This lunch we will arrange local special food to you, delicious Sichuan dishes! And you will be astonished by its diversity! After lunch, your guide will show you the wonder of ‘ Buddha is the hill and the hill is a Buddha ‘ at the other side of Minjiang river. And then you will walk up the Giant Buddha. Visit Linyun temple firstly, and then Buddha Statue, lastly the statue of 500 Arhats.
Finished the tour of Leshan Giant Buddha, you will return Chengdu, but you will stop in Shuangliu county, where we will present you an monstrous food as dinner, the Mom-made Rabbit Head.We know that many customers do not like internal organs or heads as food, but it is really necessary for them to try rabbit head in Chengdu. The roasted rabbit head is specially preserved in pickle with flavor of fragrance or spicy and hot.
Atttractions: Vegetable market, Wuhou Marquis Temple Museum, Tibetan Street, the Wide and Narrow Alley, Jinsha Museum, Farewell Dinner
Meal: Not Included
Accomodation: No
Your tour will start from a local vegetable market. Vegetable market is important part of local people’s life, and local house wives purchase their daily food normally in the morning.
After the market, you will head for Wuhou Marquis Temple Museum. The Warrior Marquis, Mt Zugeliang has become the legend of Chinese wars and wisdom. And in this museum, you will learn about his tales and loyalty to the empire of Liubei during Three Kingdom period. And then your guide will take you to walk around in the Tibetan Street to Wuhou temple. It is a whole sale market; the merchants from Tibetan area all come here for business, and also a good place to enjoy the wares of Tibetan life and religion.
And today’ lunch, we offer you a free choice: Tibetan food or lunch of noodle. Butter Tea, barley, meat of Yak or mutton are the main material of Tibetan food. And for local Chinese, they mostly like noodle as lunch or breakfast. The bosses always rack their brains to make best noodle in order to catch fastidious customers, and recently the cow-pea-noodle and bed-cover-noodle are favored by many epicure.
In the afternoon you will head for the Kuanzaixiangzi, also called the Wide and Narrow Alley built 300 years ago. Although many of western coffee, bars have occupied here, you can still trace the ancient history through the square yard and wooden door.
Jinsha Museum will be your next destination after tour of Kuanxiangzi. Here you will not only feel the sacrifice ceremony of more than 3000 years before. The social activities, living environment of that time reappears, and the change of time shows clearly in front of you.
Since you are in Chengdu, so for this farewell dinner we would host you at the formal big restaurant. Almost all of the top class restaurants in Chengdu have occupied a location in Yipintianxia Street now. Yipintianxia means tasting all of the food under the sky. Among the many restaurants, Red Apricot restaurant and Great Harmony restaurant are two most popular restaurants in Chengdu, many of the wedding or family banquets are held in them. And this dinner you will try one of them as the sweat memory of your tour in Chengdu.
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