Journey Architectures

Day1: Arrive in Chengdu

Upon arrival, we will arrange to pick you up and take you to the hotel for rest and accommodation. The rest of the time can be free to move around Chengdu! The following are recommended activities.

【Wuhou Temple & Jinli】

Wuhou Temple is one of the most famous cultural sites in the Three Kingdoms in China. It is a temple built in memory of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han Dynasty ("Zhong Wuhou" in posthumous title). It has historical, cultural, architectural and garden values.

Jinli is one of the most representative historical and cultural commercial districts in Chengdu. It is adjacent to Wuhou Temple, with the culture of the Three Kingdoms as its foundation, and is known as the "Riverside Scene in Qingming Festival in Chengdu".

【Du Fu Caotang & Kuanzhai Lane】

Du Fu's Cottage is the former residence of Du Fu, a great poet of China in the Tang Dynasty, who lived in Chengdu. Now it is a national museum and a literary holy place, and is known as "one of the holy places in the history of China literature".

Kuanzhai Lane is one of the most representative historical and cultural blocks in Chengdu. It is composed of three parallel Gu Xiang in Qing Dynasty, namely, a wide alley, a narrow alley and a well alley. It is known as "the film of old Chengdu and the living room of new city".

【Chunxi Road & Taikooli】

Chunxi Road is the most prosperous commercial center in Chengdu, known as "the first business district in Southwest China", which combines the century-old commercial background with the modern urban trend and is the core landmark of Chengdu's urban image.

Chengdu Ocean Taikooli (referred to as "Taikooli" for short) is the most international open commercial landmark in Chengdu. With the architectural aesthetics of "western Sichuan residential texture+modern glass curtain wall" and the consumption concept of "quick play and slow living", it has become a model of urban cultural and commercial integration.

Day2: Chengdu-Siguniang Mountain Shuangqiaogou-Danba Tibetan Village

【Siguniang Mountain Shuangqiaogou】

The valley with the most mature development and concentrated landscape in Siguniang Mountain Scenic Area, with a total length of 34.8 kilometers, is famous for its trinity landscape of snow-capped mountains, glacial remains and alpine meadows.

【Danba Tibetan Village】

Jiarong Tibetan thousand-year-old village settlement, together with Jiaju and Suopo, is also called "Danba Three Wonders", and it is selected as "China Landscape Village" with the trinity landscape of Bai Zang House, ancient watchtower and terraced pear flower, which is now a preparatory list item of world cultural heritage.

Day3: Danba - Yala Snow Mountain - Moshi Park - Yuzixi/Gedilam - Xinduqiao

【Yala Snow Mountain】

Yala Snow Mountain Scenic Area integrates sacred faith, magnificent snow peaks, magnificent lakes, primitive ecology and classic hiking, and is a representative destination to deeply experience the beauty of nature and humanity in the western Sichuan Plateau. It is not only a wonder of geological landforms, but also a spiritual home in the hearts of Tibetan compatriots and a secret paradise that outdoor lovers yearn for. It is known as "the top of Shangri-La" and "the pearl on the West Sichuan Ring Road".

【Moshi Park】

Moshi Park has become an unrepeatable natural miracle on National Highway 318 with the notch of earth evolution and the extreme barren aesthetics in western Sichuan.

【Yuzixi and Gedilam】

Yuzixi and Gedilam are both famous viewing platforms in western Sichuan, located near xinduqiao town, kangding city. The biggest feature of these two places is that they can enjoy the snow-capped mountains in 360 degrees without dead ends, including Yala Snow Mountain and Gongga Snow Mountain.

Day4: Xinduqiao - Litang Letong Ancient Town - Haizi mountain - Shangri-La Town

【Litang Letong Ancient Town】

Letong Ancient Town, with its living Tibetan village, poetic belief and the temperature of craftsmanship, writes the undiluted soul of Kangba at the top of the "World High City".

【Haizi mountain】

Haizishan is located between Litang County and Daocheng County, with an average elevation of 4,500 meters. It is a large ancient ice relic on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is known as the "Daocheng Ancient Ice Cap". Haizi Mountain has a unique landscape, that is, stone rivers, stone seas and glacial lakes (Haizi) with different shapes. There are 1,145 Haizi of different sizes all over the mountains, such as thousands of diamonds shining, and its density is rare in the world, hence the name Haizi Mountain.

Day5: Shangri-La Town - One-day tour of Daocheng Yading Scenic Area - Shangri-La Town

【Daocheng Yading Scenic Area】

Arrive at Daocheng Yading Scenic Area, then transfer to sightseeing bus and go to the fascinating Aden Scenic Area. Take the sightseeing bus all the way, climb the Cowherd Mountain (4,760m above sea level) and overlook the Fairy Mountain (6,032m above sea level), with a kind eye on the fairyland on earth under your feet. In summer, waterfalls are grouped together under the snow line, which is magnificent and magnificent. At the foot of the mountain, there are beautiful scenery composed of grass, forests and lakes. After arriving at the destination, you need to walk about 500m to the battery station of Chonggu Temple, and choose to take the battery car to Luorong Cattle Farm.

Tour route: Luorong Cattle Farm (three main snow-capped mountains) ~ 5.3km riding or hiking ~ Sheshen Cliff ~ hiking ~ Milk Sea and Wuse Sea. When you stand on the 4,700-meter-long multicolored seashore, with the tears of a century-old glacier at your feet and the sword front of Manjusri Bodhisattva in front of you, you will understand that human beings are only natural pilgrims, not conquerors.

Day6: Shangri-La Town - Changqingchun Cole Temple-Xinduqiao

【Changqingchun Cole Temple】

Located in the north of Litang County, Sichuan, at an altitude of 4,014 meters, it is the center of the Gelugpa (Yellow Sect) of Tibetan Buddhism in southern Kang. It was founded by the third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso, in 1580. The temple complex combines Han and Tibetan styles. The Golden-roofed Hall, the Thousand Buddha Hall, the gilded Maitreya statue and the stacked monks' quarters form a temple of faith. The existing precious cultural relics include the golden Tripitaka and the remains of the seventh Dalai Lama.

【Xinduqiao】

Xinduqiao, the Shangri-La corridor of light and shadow, a photographer’s paradise, a poetic supply station on the Sichuan-Tibet line, the heartland of Muya Tibetan culture, and a plateau pastoral light and shadow museum!

Day7: Tagong Grassland - Rainbow Road - Red Lake & Styncuo - Chengdu

【Tagong Grassland】

Tagong Grassland is located in Tagong Town, Kangding City, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan (110 kilometers away from Kangding), with an altitude of 3,730 meters. It is one of the most famous plateau meadows in Ganzi. Its core charm lies in "the golden top of Yala Snow Mountain in the same frame" - the vast grassland extends to the foot of the pyramid-shaped Yala Sacred Mountain, and the gilded top of Muya Golden Pagoda (said to be a pagoda presented by Princess Wencheng) and the snow-capped peaks are reflected, forming a classic sacred scene in the Tibetan area.

【Rainbow Road】

Rainbow Road (G318 Kangding Airport Branch Line) is the world's second highest scenic highway (4,280 meters), connecting Kangding City and the airport (about 40 kilometers), with the core section from Sitingcuo to the airport pass. It is known as the "Sky Road in the Clouds". Along the way, you can see three sacred mountains: Gongga Peaks in the west, Yala Snow Mountain in the northeast, and Zheduo Mountain in the southeast. The reflection of the plane on the surface of Sitingcuo Lake is a spectacle.

【Red Lake & Styncuo】

Honghaizi: Tibetan name "Jiajia La", 50 kilometers away from Kangding, the lake is like cobalt blue glass inlaid in the snow-capped mountains.

Sidingcuo: **"Sky Mirror"** next to the world's second highest highway (G4280), unique "three sacred mountains in one frame" perspective: Gongga peaks in the west, Yala Snow Mountain in the northeast, and Zheduo ridge in the southeast meet here.

Day8: Return Arrangements

Today you can move freely in Chengdu and then choose your return trip based on transportation time.