Day 1: ARRIVAL IN CHENGDU
Your guide and driver will pick you up at the airport and transfer you to hotel, so you can have a short rest before your trip. Then your guide will lead you to visit Qingyangong Temple-a Taoism temple where you will embrace yourself in laozi’s philosophy; Wenshu Temple –the oldest Buddhism temple in Chengdu right now. Later in the afternoon you and your guide will stroll along Kuangxiangzi, an ancient street with about 300 hundred years history, it was considered as residence for Manchu soldiers in Qing dynasty but now a street selling local artifacts.
Meal: none
Hotel:Buddha Zen Hotel or similar level
Day 2: CHENGDU (B)
In the morning, your guide will lead you to visit Panda Research Centre first. Only 10 km north from downtown, Chengdu panda research center is known as the best place to see panda family, now it is residence to about 80-100 pandas including 27 new born panda cubs in 2016, which were cover pages for lots of presses all over the world. After that , you will visit Baoguang Monastery, you will see 500 Buddha statues. Your final scenic spot of taday is Sanxindui Museum, in which ancient Shu civilization with history of 3000-5000 years reveals its mysterious curtains for you. Then , you will be transferred back to your hotel .
Meal: breakfast at hotel
Hotel:Buddha Zen Hotel or similar level
Day 3: CHENGDU – DUJIANGYAN – SONGPAN – CHUANZHUSI (B)
In the morning , you will go to Dujiangyan, visit Dujiangyan irrigation project which was built 2000 years ago but still operating today. Then, your driver and guide will drive you to Songpan, visit the Songpan ancient town where will be your first contact with Tibetan people and their culture. After your visiting, you will head for Chuanzhusi where you are going to spend your night .
Meal: breakfast at hotel
Hotel:Chuanzhu Guoji Hotel or similar level
Day 4: HUANGLONG – JIUZHAIGOU (B)
Today you will visit Huanglong. The cable car will directly rise you from 3070 meters to 3558 meters and it will save you 2 hours, so you have more time enjoying the Alpine mountain forest and colorful calcified lakes. Then you will walk down from the top, enjoying the beautiful road side. Drive to Jiuzhaigou after that , you will spend your night here, getting some rest before jiuzhaigou sightseeing.
Meal: breakfast at hotel
Hotel: Mingren Hotel or similar level
Day 5: JIUZHAIGOU (B)
Get up in the early morning today, and then go with your guide to the gate of Jiuzhaigou National park. And there you will take shuttle bus to visit the long valleys.
The Y-shapted Jiuzhaigou valley actually consists of 3 long valleys: Shuzheng valley, Rize valley and Zezha valley. In each of the valley, many beautiful lakes, waterfalls, rivers and virgin forest are scattered. Local Tibetan gave each of them romantic names, such as Panda Sea, Pearl Sea, Long Sea, etc, and these lakes shining like jade, pearl in the mountain and forest. Jiuzhaiogou valley could be the best gift from our nature, and it deserves the fame of Fairy Land on the earth!
We always want to introduce unique local culture to our clients, besides beautiful nature, there are also nine Tibet villages, which Jiuzhaigou got its name from it, your guide will give you a lecture of Tibetan culture too when visit these villages. Just follow your guide to visit the 3 valleys one by one, enjoying the interesting tales about the villages and lakes. In the late afternoon you will exit the valleys and return hotel.
Meal: breakfast at hotel
Hotel: Mingren Hotel or similar level
Day 6: JIUZHAIGOU – CHENGDU – LESHAN –Emeishan (B)
In the early morning , guide and driver will drive you to Songpan Airport where you will catch the plane from songpan to Chengdu. It will cost you only 45 minutes to fly. You guide and driver will pick you up at the airport and drive you to Leshan which is about 150 km away from Chengdu/2 -2.5 hours driving. When you arrive , you will visit leshan giant Buddha, the largest sitting Buddha statue in the world, by two ways: one by walking from its head to its toe which you can get a close look of the Buddha and one by taking the boat on the dadu river which will give you a panorama view of the Buddha. After that , your driver will take you to Mt. Emeishan , and stay here overnight waiting for the next mountain trip.
Meal: breakfast at hotel
Hotel: Emei Hot Spring Hotel 3* or similar level
Day 7: EMEI SHAN – Leshan (B)
After your breakfast in the early morning, you will take the shuttle bus up to leidongping bus station and walk about 1.5 km up to cable car station and transfer a cable car to Jinding. There are three Monastery temples on the top: golden/silver/bronze temple named as its colors shows and the golden summit absolutely is the best place to overlook the whole mountain ranges. Then heading back to Wanian bus station by shuttle bus, it will costs you 1.5 hours. and then you will take cable car up to visit wannian temple and walk to Wuxianggang Bus station where you will take the bus back to the exit. Then drive you to Leshan where you will spend your night and have a good rest.
Meal: breakfast at hotel
Hotel: Ibis Hotel or similar level
Day 8: LESHAN – HUANGCUNJING – Chengdu (B)
In the early morning, you guide and diver will drive you to Qianwei where you can take Steam Train to Hua
ngcunjing , enjoying the beautiful countryside scene on the train. When you arrive , you can walk around
the village and communicate with the local people. Finally, you driver will drive you back to Chengdu airport for flight at 16:30 in the afternoon, and it’s time to say goodbye to your guide/your driver and China and back home with unforgettable sweet memory .
Price include :
1.hotel:7-night accommodation (twin & share)
2.meal:Breakfast at hotel
3.Vehicle and driver during the tour
4.An English speaking guide during the tour
5.Entrance tickets of the scenic spots mentioned in the itinerary
6.Public sightseeing bus in Jiuzhaigou scenic area; cable car up in Huanglong;boat ride on Dadu river; Jiayang steam train ticket;public sightseeing bus in Emeishan scenic area;Jinding round trip cable car; Wanniansi cable car up
Price exclude :
1.Tip for guide and driver
2.Meals
3.provide one bottle of water per one per day
4.Domestic flight tickets. The full one way flight ticket(Jiuzhaigou to Chengdu ) is 1600RMB/PAX, the estimate discount is : from 15th Nov to Jun, 35% off; from Jul to Aug, 20% off; from Sep to Oct, 5% off. We will charge real price.
5.Any service not mentioned above.
1.if use 4 stars hotel(Chengdu Rhombus Fantasia+Chuanzhusi Minjiang Haoting Hotel +Jiuzhaigou Howard Johnson+Emei Hot spring hotel 4*+Leshan Taihe Hotel), there is surcharge. From 15th Nov to Mar:580RMB/PAX; From Apr to Aug:590 RMB/PAX; From Sep to Oct:980 RMB/PAX
2. From 11th Nov to Mar, due to the bad weather, guests will visit Mounigou instead of Huanglong
3. In winter, many 4 stars hotel in Chuanzhusi and Jiuzhaigou will be closed, so the hotel in Jiuzhaigou and Chuanzhusi will be changed to other hotel
4. The prices shown above are not valid during the China's National Day Holiday, Chinese Spring Festival and some large exhibitions like Canton Fair.