D1 Chengdu / Bifengxia Panda Garden / Bifegnxia Gorge Hiking / Shangli Old Town ( Lunch / Dinner )
Your guide in Chengdu will take you to Bifengxia in about 2 hours’ driving on the express way. There are about 50 to 60 pandas in the wide Bifengxia Panda Garden. Be careful, they may just hide on the tree over your head! It is really an enjoyable thing to watch the pandas eating and playing. The most amazing is that you can even hold a panda in your arms for picture by donating some money to the panda base.
After the tour in Bifengxia garden, you can make about 2 hours’ hiking tour in this beautiful park, and you can enjoy beautiful waterfall, rocks, bridge.
In the late afternoon is the tour in old town, Shangli. Shangli Old Town used to be important station during the trade of horse and Tea between Chinese Hand people and Tibetan. It is a good place to relax us, drinking tea, painting the old stone bridge, wooden house, etc.
Relax in the beautiful old town tonight.
D2 Shangli / Mt. Mengdingshan Tea Tour / Chengdu ( Breakfast, Lunch)
Enjoy the quietness of the countryside in the early morning, and then we will head for Mt. Mengdingshan in half an hour’s driving.
Mt. Mengdingshan is the origin of tea in China with the earliest record of planting tea. And we will have a lecture of picking up tea and planting tea from local farmer, and then follow him to pick up tea. And we will also learn how to fire the tea in the pot with local villager. Enjoy a local lunch with tea food today.
In the afternoon, continue to hike on the tea mountain; there are a few old tea trees with thousands of years’ history. And you can also walk around in local tea trading market after the tea tour in the mountain. And it is a good chance to buy fresh green tea here.
Drive back Chengdu in the late afternoon. End of the service.
Our prices included:
1. Entrance ticket. The entrance ticket of Bifengxia Panda Garden, Mengdingshan tea picking, Mengdingshan Scenic Spot.
2. Guide. An English speaking guide will be provided, who will accompany you from the start of tour to end of tour.
3. Private Transfers during tour. Our guide and driver will pick-up you at your hotel on time and drop-off you after the tours. And an air-conditioned vehicle will be provided during the tour.
4. Meals. Meals as schedule listed will be provided at local restaurant. During the meal, a glass of soft drink will be provided.
5. Service Charge & Government Taxes.
6. One nights’ accommodation. For tourist class it will be guesthouse in Shangli, for superior class it will be 4 star hotel in Ya’an city.
7. Insurance. We provide a free insurance of accident and casualty for each traveler. The highest refund is RMB 300000.00. Detailed terms please view our contract with Ping An of China.
Our prices not included :
1. The cable car in Mt. Mengdingshan.
2. Tips to the guide and driver
If you require, we can book hotels in Chengdu, and make private airport and city tour necessary.
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