Huanglong
Jiuzhaigou
Leshan
Emeishan
8 Days Classic Tour of Jiuzhaigou,Leshan and Chengdu
Chengdu is the paradise for tourist, a lot of beautiful nature reserves and historic sites are scattered in the mountain and cities around it. Jiuzhaigou National Parks and Huanglong National Parks are the most beautiful national parks in China, Emeishan and Leshan Giant Buddha are the most famous cultural sites in China, and Giant Panda in Chengdu is the most lovely animals in the world! China Exploration would show you all of these essence in 8 days !
Jiuzhaigou，or Jiuzhai Valley, got its name from Nine Tibetan villages in the valley. It is located in the deep mountain of Mingshan in the edge of east Tibetan plateau. Hundreds of beautiful snow mountain lakes, many of grand waterfalls, dense virgin forest, precious animals and snow peaks surrounding, all built up the beautiful and magic nature reserve.
Huanglong National park is also called "Se'ercuo" in Tibetan language meaning the golden lake, also called Yellow Dragon Park. The shining colored ponds are tributes to the sacred mountain.
Leshan Giant Buddha is the largest Buddha statue in the world, and it is said the Buddha is a hill, and the hill is a Buddha. People can enjoy the giant from its front by cruise, and people can also walk down from his head to his foot. His foot provides the space for 20 people standing! And the latest discovery shows us another magic wonder: the whole mountain is just like a Buddha sleeping on the Minjiang river, and the statue of giant Buddha is just sitting in the heart!
And Mountain Emeishan is one of the four sacred Buddhism mountains in China, many ancient temples are scattered in the deep mountain, it must be visited for anyone interested in Buddhism. Besides it, the nature here is also very beautiful, dense forest, naughty monkeys, clean rivers, more than our expectation!
It used to be difficult for tourists due to the poor transportation of Jiuzhaigou, but now things are much easier due to the flights. In this tour, China Exploration will arrange a tour to Jiuzhaigou firstly, and then have a leisure tour in the cultural sites of Leshan, Emeishan and Chengdu. Just come with us!
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$753.00
Duration: 8 days
Tour Code: CE-CD-8D01
Departure Date: Every Day
Tour Attractions:Jiuzhaigou, Huanglong, Leshan, Emeishan, Panda Garden, Bamboo Garden, Kuanxiangzi, Factory Memory Park
Feature：Natural Landscape
Tour Type: /Two way flights + Land tour + Private English speaking guide + Private Driver
Tour Code: CE-CD-8D01
Departure Date: Every Day
Tour Attractions:Jiuzhaigou, Huanglong, Leshan, Emeishan, Panda Garden, Bamboo Garden, Kuanxiangzi, Factory Memory Park
Feature：Natural Landscape
Tour Type: /Two way flights + Land tour + Private English speaking guide + Private Driver
D1 Arrive in Chengdu
Arrive in Chengdu today, meet with the guide from China Exploration at Shuangliu airport or Tianfu Inernational Airport, and then head for your hotel for rest. Chengdu, the most important and ancient city in South-west China, mixed with modernization and tradition. And Chengdu possesses the most convenient transportation in West China, from Chengdu tourist can fly to most cities in China, also fly from many of the international cities to Chengdu, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Dehli, Soel, Tokoyo, Frankfurt, San Francisco, etc. It is also the busies transportation hub to Tibet.
D2 Chengdu / Huanglong / Jiuzhaigou ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner )
Your Chengdu tour should start from Jiuzhaigou valley firstly, after 50 minutes’ flight you will arrive in the Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong airport, and your local tour guide will wait for you there. Although you move from Chengdu of 500 meters to Jiuzhaigou of 3448 meters in short time, don’t worry too much for it. The dense forest provide rich oxygen there, and most of the people can be acclimated very quickly. If you do feel difficult, just buy some oxygen yourselves.
Normally your tour guide will take you to Huanglong Nation Park directly, which is about 40 minutes’ driving in mountain road from airport to Huanglong. Lunch will be arranged either at airport or foot of Huanglong mountain accordingly, depending on the arrival time. After the lunch, you will start a hiking tour of 4 hours, 2 hours up and 2 hours down, and hiking from gate of 3070 meters to Huanglong Monastery of 3558 meters, and then return. If you think it may be too tired for you, you can take cable car by extra payment of RMB120 there. Just enjoy the beautiful alphine mountain forest and collorful calcified lakes en route. And eventually you will arrive at the Wucaichi Lake.
After you descend the mountain, you will head for Zhangza town close to Jiuzhaigou valley in about 2 hour’s driving, mountain and Tibetan villages will be the view accompanying you. And have a good sleep in hotel today.
D3 Jiuzhaigou Excursion ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner )
Get up in the early morning today, and then go to the gate of Jiuzhaigou National Park with your guide. There you will board local environment protecting bus to visit the long valleys.
The Y-shaped Jiuzhaigou valley actually are consisted 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 granted 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. Jiuzhaigou valley could be the best gift from our nature, and it deserves the fame of Fairy Land on the earth!
China Exploration always wanted to introduce unique local culture to our clients, besides beautiful nature, there are also nine Tibet villages in the valley for your visit. Your guide will give you a lecture of Tibetan culture .
You will travel the 3 valleys one by one with the sightseeing bus, enjoying the interesting tales about the villages and lakes. And a simple buffet lunch will be arranged in Lorilang restaurant.
In the late afternoon you will exit the valleys and return hotel for dinner.
D4 Jiuzhaigou / Chengdu ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner )
Say goodbye to Jiuzhaigou valley, and your guide will send you back to Huanglong airport in about 2 hour’s driving. And after 50 minutes’ flight you will arrive at Chengdu again.
Another tour guide from China Exploration will pick-up you and take you to the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in the suburb, just 10 kms north to Chengdu, where you can see the lovely pandas making various funny movement in eating and playing, also it is a good chance to take picture for them. It is free! The most amazing is that you can also hold a panda in your arms to take picture by donating some money to the panda base. And it is also a pleasant experience to walk in the wide garden of bamboo.
After the tour in Panda Garden, your guide will bring you to the Kuanxiangzi Wide and Narrow Alley built about 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. About 1 hour’s visit here. It is also a good place for photographers.
D5 Chengdu / Luocheng Old Town / Leshan Giant Buddha / Emeishan ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner )
Today your tour destination will be Leshan Giant Buddha. Your tour guide will take you to Locheng Old Town in about 2 hours’ driving on express way, and you can enjoy the wide Sichuan plain en route.
Luocheng Old Street still remains in its original state of less tourist due to its out of beaten track. Although Luocheng is a very small street, it is impressive to watch local old people chatting and playing Chinese bridge card in the old style tea house with satisfaction to their simple life. Also you will enjoy the authentic countryside.
After tour in Luocheng, you will continue half an hour’s driving to Leshan. China Exploration always want to arrange the special food to our clients. So today you will also enjoy delicious Xiba Bean curd banquet here. Bean curd is one of the most popular food in China, and the bean curd of Xiba is the most famous in Chengdu. All of the dishes will be made of famous Xiba bean curd
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 make a mild hiking tour on Leshan Giant Buddha, visit Linyun temple firstly, and then walk down the zigzagging trail in the left side of Buddha. The Buddha is a small mountain, from its head to shoulder, and from leg to foot, about 30 minutes hiking. And then you need to hike up from its right side again. It is also a good place to view Leshan city cross the joint of Minjiang River, Dadu River and Qingyi River. And then you will walk about 30 minutes to Wuyou temple, where you can enjoy the statue of 500 Arhats.
In the late afternoon, your guide will take you to Emeishan for night in half an hour’s driving. You will stay one night at the foot of beautiful Mt. Emeishan, also a Chinese style dinner will be arranged in hotel. And the hot spring of Emeishan is famous here, so we’d like to suggest you buying yourself a hot spring bath as prize of today’s tour.
D6 Mt Emeishan Tour / Chengdu ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner )
After a good sleeping, get up in the early morning, and then your pilgrimage tour to Emeishan mountain starts. You will firstly take local environment bus to the Golden summit of mountain. It is a beautiful but huge mountain, taking more than 1 hour’s driving to the parking ground of Leidongping. After you get off the bus, you will continue walking about 30 minutes to the start of cable car. It is a mountain trail, and you may encounter some monkeys begging food in the mountain trail. And after 30 minute’s cable car, you will arrive at the top of Emeishan mountain. When sky is clear, you can overlook the Sichuan Basin, or even see the snow peak of Mt Gongka hundreds miles away. And the huge golden Buddha Statue is looking into 10 directions by his 10 faces.
After lunch, you will take cable car and environment bus back the foot of the mountain, and then walk to Tiger Subduing Temple, also called Fuhu temple at the foot of mountain. It is a beautiful temples of nuns, exquisite, ancient , and less tourist tracking.
In the late afternoon your guide will take you back Chengdu. It is 2 hours’ driving again, just enough for you to have a short time’s nap in your car. Yes, it is a bit tired after one day’s mountain tour. Your guide will send you back hotel, and your Chengdu tour will be finished with sweet memory.
D7 Chengdu City Tour ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner )
It is a leisure tour day for you in Chengdu today. You will visit a local Vegetable market firstly Local house wives often purchase their daily food in the morning. Vegetable, meats, spices, cakes, all will be sold here, crowded, bargaining , it is a bit like the bazaar in Middle East. It is a good place to touch real local life.
After the short tour in Vegetable market, and then you will leave for Jinsha Ruin Museum, where you will enjoy a lot of valuable relics in Yangtze drainage, which are mostly belong to the sacrifice ceremony 3000 years ago, and you can also watch the site of excavation, social activities, living environment of that time reappears.
After the tour in Jinsha, you will head for the Kuangxianzi Wide and Narrow Alley built about 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. About 1 hour’s visit here. It is also a good place for photographers. And China Exploration will arrange special flavor of Sichuan Snack as your lunch today. Snack is the easiest food reminding locals the history of old Chengdu.
In the afternoon you will drop a tour in Bamboo Garden, also called Wangjianglou Park, built 1000 years ago. It is to commemorate famous women poet Ms Xutao in Tang dynasty. The highlight of the park is also its forests boasting of 100 varieties of bamboo.
After the tour in Bamboo Garden, you will make a tour in an interesting park of Factory Memory. It was built on the base of old factory actually. The East suburb of Chengdu was known for its many large factory, but now they have all been moved out of the city, and a park was built on their site.
Hot Pot of Chengdu is well known in China, hot and spicy, No matter in winter nor in hot summer the hot pot restaurants are full of locals. People believe eating around the round pot means friendship and uniting. Naturally China Exploration will not miss the good chance to show you the delicious food of Chengdu. At dinner your guide will take you to a special hot pot restaurant, the Culture Revolution Hot Pot, from the decor to the waiters, all in Cultural Revolution Style. Here you will try this magic food as well as experience the magic history by enjoying the songs during revolution time!
D8 Chengdu Departure ( Breakfast )
There are so many nice sites in Chengdu, but time flies so quickly and your tour in Chengdu is finished today. Your guide will send you to airport and you fly back home with sweet memory.
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Tour Season |
1 Person |
2-3 Person |
4-5 Person |
6-9 person |
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December – March. |
$1641 |
$1072 |
$837 |
$753 |
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April- August,and November |
$2060 |
$1560 |
$1310 |
$892 |
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September |
$2240 |
$1740 |
$1490 |
$1005 |
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October |
$2270 |
$1770 |
$1519 |
$1076 |
Our prices included:
1. Round trip flights of Chengdu / Huanglong / Chengdu.
2. Entrance ticket. Our price have included the entrance tickets as schedule listed.
3. The environment protection bus of Jiuzhaigou national park.
4. Guide. An English speaking guide will be provided during the tour of Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong, also the airport transfer and tours in Chengdu and Emeishan.
5. Private car transfers during tour. It will be an air-conditioned vehicle.
6. Service Charge & Government Taxes.
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.
2. Entrance ticket. Our price have included the entrance tickets as schedule listed.
3. The environment protection bus of Jiuzhaigou national park.
4. Guide. An English speaking guide will be provided during the tour of Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong, also the airport transfer and tours in Chengdu and Emeishan.
5. Private car transfers during tour. It will be an air-conditioned vehicle.
6. Service Charge & Government Taxes.
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. Your hotels. Because the hotel prices varies greatly in Chengdu and Jiuzhaigou, so you can choose the hotel from our list according to your budget.
2. Your meals. You can deal the meals by a simple noodle or order a big meal at hotel, and you can also book meals from us too.
3. The cable car of Huanglong. You are not obliged to take the cable car there. Hiking is the way of most tourist taking.
4. Any of the optional program recommended by the guide, such as Tibetan dancing show, Tibetan banquet.
5. Tips for guides and drivers.
2. Your meals. You can deal the meals by a simple noodle or order a big meal at hotel, and you can also book meals from us too.
3. The cable car of Huanglong. You are not obliged to take the cable car there. Hiking is the way of most tourist taking.
4. Any of the optional program recommended by the guide, such as Tibetan dancing show, Tibetan banquet.
5. Tips for guides and drivers.
1. Above prices is not valid during the public holidays as National Day, Chinese New Year, Dragon boat Festival, and moon cake festival.
2. For the group size of 1 pax, the single supplement is already included.
If you require, we can book hotels in Chengdu, and make private airport and city tour necessary.
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