
【Customized Travel】9-Day China Adventure: Pandas, Buddha & Ancient Mysteries (Chengdu • Chongqing • Wulong • Emei • Dujiangyan • Sanxingdui)
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Day1: Arrive in Chongqing
Upon arrival, we will arrange to pick you up and send you to the hotel to rest and stay. You can move freely in Chongqing city for the rest of the time!
Day2: Chongqing - Wulong - Chongqing
【Tiansheng Third Bridge Scenic Area】
The tour route in the scenic spot is 5 kilometers from the cliff to the bottom of the valley, and the three stone arch bridges, Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge and Heilong Bridge, are famous in the world.
【Wulong Longshuixia Ground Fissure】
Wulong Ground Fissure Scenic Area is located in fairy mountain Town, Wulong County, 15 kilometers away from the county seat. It was formed by orogeny tens of millions of years ago, and belongs to a typical karst landform landscape. The canyon is 5 kilometers long and 200-500 meters deep. It is grand and magnificent, and it has the characteristics of male, dangerous, steep and beautiful.
Day3: Chongqing - Chengdu
【Yangtze River cableway experience】
Chongqing city symbol, Chongqing characteristic experience place, national AAA scenic spot, China urban tourism aerial sightseeing scenic spot; Crossing between high-rise buildings, flying over the vast rivers, and traveling to the top of the landscape city, Bashan and Chongqing are all in sight, which is one of the must-see tourist attractions in Chongqing.
【Daijiaxiang cliff trail-light rail lizibayuan viewing platform】
Daijiaxiang Cliff Trail is an impregnable cliff plank road with cliff as the wall, standing beside Jialing River and Hongya Cave. The cliff trail extends horizontally, forming a viewing platform with a wide field of vision on the narrow mountainside, and you can get a panoramic view of both the well-defined urban landscape and the rippling Jialing River.
I feel that one of the 18 eccentrics in Chongqing, "passing through the light rail building", is called god-like traffic by netizens. The light rail shuttled around and turned into a roller coaster. When crossing the house at Liziba Station of Chongqing Light Rail Line 2, every day, a magical scene of light rail crossing the building and crossing the valley and flying through the air will be staged.
【Baigongguan & Zhazidong】
Baigongguan is located in Shapingba District, Chongqing. It was originally the villa of Sichuan warlord Baiju. In 1939, the Military Bureau transformed it into a detention center for political prisoners. More than ten houses on the first floor and the first floor were changed into cells, and the underground storage room was changed into a dungeon.
Zhazidong was originally a small coal kiln on the outskirts of Chongqing, which was named after more slag and less coal. Zhazidong is surrounded by mountains on three sides and ditches on one side, and its position is relatively hidden. In 1939, the Kuomintang military spy forced the mine owner to death and occupied the coal kiln, and set up a prison here.
【Ciqikou ancient town-Zhongshansi Road】
Ciqikou ancient town, located on the Jialing River in Shapingba District, Chongqing, was founded in the Song Dynasty. It has a unique landform of "one river, two streams, three mountains and four streets" and forms a natural harbor. It is an important land and water wharf on the Jialing River. There was a time when "a thousand people gave their hands in the daytime, and a million lights were lit at night".
As one of the areas where China's anti-Japanese war culture is concentrated, Zhongshan No.4 Road is littered with famous anti-Japanese war sites such as Guiyuan, Zhougongguan and Daigongguan.
【Hongyadong】
Located in Cangbai Road, Jie Fangbei, the core business district of Chongqing municipality, and the riverside area where the Yangtze River and Jialing River meet, it is a place with urban tourism landscape, business leisure landscape and urban cultural landscape. Taking the "Diaojiaolou" with the traditional architectural features of Bayu as the main body, it is built along the river according to the mountain, with Jie Fangbei reaching the riverside directly.
【Take the high-speed train to Chengdu】
Day4: Chengdu - Mount Emei
【Mount Emei: Wannian Temple & Qingyinge,Ecological monkey area】
Wannian Temple is one of the ancient temples with a long history in Emei Mountain, Sichuan Province. It is said that it was the place where the old man who collected medicine in Han Dynasty paid tribute to Buddha.
Qingyin Pavilion, also known as Woyun Temple, was named "Qingyin Pavilion" based on the poetry of Zuo Si's poem: "Why silk and bamboo, mountains and rivers have a clear sound". It is located at the confluence of black and white water under Niuxinling Mountain in Emei Mountain, with an altitude of 710 meters.
Emei Mountain Wild Natural Ecological Monkey Area is a large wild natural ecological monkey area in China at present, and its range is distributed in the mountains and mountains ranging from 800 meters to 2,400 meters above sea level. According to the survey and statistics, there are 6 communities relatively concentrated, with a number of about 1,000 monkeys, among which several spiritual monkeys in the middle mountain area of Emei Mountain are quite spiritual.
Day5: Jinding Emei - Leshan Giant Buddha - Chengdu
【Jinding Emei】
Walk to Jieyin Temple. Emei Jinding is a new Jinding centered on a 48-meter-high bronze statue of Pu Xian with ten sides, which consists of a glorious golden hall, a magnificent bronze hall, a burning silver hall and a white pilgrimage avenue.
【Leshan Giant Buddha】
Leshan Giant Buddha is the largest existing stone statue of Maitreya Buddha in the world, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage (selected in 1996), which combines religious, artistic and engineering miracles, and is known as "a mountain is a Buddha, and a Buddha is a mountain".
Day6: Chengdu - Dujiangyan - Qingchengshan - Chengdu
【Dujiangyan】
Dujiangyan is the oldest existing dam-free water diversion project in the world, which was built in 256 BC (Warring States Period) and was presided over by Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County, Qin State. It perfectly solved the problems of flood control, irrigation and shipping of Minjiang River with the ecological wisdom of "Taoism is natural", and was selected as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 2000, which is known as "the originator of world water conservancy culture".
【Qingchengshan】
Qingcheng Mountain, one of the cradles of Taoism in China, is a famous Taoist mountain. Located in the southwest of Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province, the ancient name is Tiancang Mountain, also known as Zhangren Mountain. It is 68km east of Chengdu and 10km southwest of Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project. Laoxiao Peak, the main peak, is 1260 meters above sea level. Among the famous mountains in Sichuan, it is as famous as the danger of Jianmen, the show of Emei and the hero of Kuimen, and has the reputation of "Qingcheng is quiet in the world".
Day7: Chengdu - Panda Base - Sanxingdui - Chengdu
【Panda Base】
The giant panda is a rare animal that everyone loves, a symbol of biodiversity protection in the world and a symbol of peace and friendship. There are giant pandas in Chongzhou, Dujiangyan, Dayi, Pengzhou, Qionglai and other cities and counties under Chengdu.
【Sanxingdui】
Sanxingdui site is an ancient Shu cultural site with large scope, long duration and rich cultural connotation discovered in southwest China so far. Sanxingdui Museum, located in the northeast corner of the site, collects and displays more than 1,000 precious cultural relics such as bronzes, jade and stone tools, gold wares, pottery and bone wares unearthed from Sanxingdui site.
Day8: Chengdu
Today, I went to visit Chengdu's cultural landmarks (such as Wuhou Temple, Jinli, Du Fu Caotang, Kuanzhai Lane, Chunxi Road, Taikooli, etc.) and taste Chengdu's special snacks (such as Dandan Noodles, husband and wife's lung slices, dragon wonton, Han steamed stuffed bun, Zhong dumplings, Three Cannons, Lai Tangyuan, Jiuchi salted duck, etc.).
【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.
Day9: Return Transfer
Choose the return trip according to the traffic time.