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Day1 Guilin
Transfer via: flight – your arrangement
Activities for today: Airport transfer (Guilin)
Upon arrival at the airport, you'll be warmly greeted and escorted by private car to your choice of hotel.
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Day2 Guilin/Yangshuo
Transfer via: private vehicle, ship
Activities for today: Li River cuise, West Street
Meet with your guide at your hotel at 8:00 -8:30 and transfer to Mopanshan pier at 9:30. Enjoy wonderful Li River cruise (4 hours) to Yangshuo with lunch on board, you will feast your eyes with the reflection of fantastic peaks with various shapes, crystal clear water, green hills, bamboo groves, the river passes an endless procession of distinct peaks and bamboo groves and the stunning landscape. Disembark at Yangshuo about 14:00, roam in the famous West Street. The street looks like a global village with variety of souvenir shops, restaurants, bars and inns.
Li River Guilin
Li River Guilin
West Street
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Day3 Yangshuo/Guilin
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Tai Chi boxing, countryside bike riding, bamboo rafting
In the morning, you will experience playing Tai Chi boxing in the countryside of Yangshuo, truly in nature. A Tai Chi master will teach you how to do it. After that, you will ride bicycle to the countryside to enjoy a wonderful bamboo rafting along the beautiful Yulong River. Late afternoon, drive back to Guilin.
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Day4 Guilin
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill, lakes
After breakfast, we will drive to visit the fantastic Reed Flute Cave. In the afternoon, return to the city to see the Elephant Trunk Hill and enjoy a walk around the beautiful lakes in the downtown area.
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Day5 Guilin/Chengdu
Transfer via: flight - our arrangement
Activities for today: Airport transfer (Guilin, Chengdu), Wuhou Temple, Jinli Ancient Street
This morning, you are escorted to Guilin Liangjiang International Airport for the flight to Chengdu. Upon arrival, you are picked up to your hotel check in. After a short break, drive to visit Wuhou Temple and Jinli Ancient Street.
Wuhou Temple was built in the Western Jin period (265–316) in the honor of Zhuge Liang, the famous military and political strategist who was Prime Minister of the Shu Han State during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280). The temple highlights the Zhuge Liang Memorial Temple and the Hall of Liu Bei (founder of the Shu Han state), along with statues of other historical figures of Shu Han, as well as cultural relics like stone inscriptions and tablets. The Hui Mausoleum of Liu Bei represents a unique pattern of enshrining both the emperor and his subjects in the same temple, a rarity in China.
Jinli Ancient Street is nearby Wuhou Temple. It is a popular commercial and dining area resembling the style of traditional architecture of western Sichuan. "Jinli" is the name of an old street in Chengdu dating from the Han dynasty and means "making perfection more perfect". The ancient Jinli Street was one of the oldest and the most commercialized streets in the history of the Shu state and was well known throughout the country during the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms periods. Many aspects of the urban life of Chengdu are present in the current-day Jinli area: teahouses, restaurants, bars, theatres, handicraft stores, local snack vendors, and specialty shops.
Chengdu Wuhou Temple
Wuhou Temple
Jinli Ancient Street
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Day6 Chengdu
Transfer via: private vehicle
Activities for today: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Sanxingdui Museum
This morning drive about 1 hour to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, home to over 100 giant pandas and one of the most important panda scientific research centers in China. You will walk through the bamboo-framed paths and closely observe the giant pandas of different ages eating, playing, tumbling, and climbing. Be sure to not miss the chance to watch female pandas nursing their cubs in the nursery rooms. There is also a very informative panda museum where you can learn some interesting facts about panda bears.
After some happy hours with the lovely pandas, drive about 1 hour to Sanxingdui Museum. Here you will discover 3,000-year-old artifacts, all sitting upon their own little pedestals, including jade knives, bronze masks, and bronze trees. Many of the items were dug up from a nearby archaeological site - Sanxingdui. Sanxingdui is now believed to be the site of a major ancient city in what is now Sichuan. The Bronze Age culture which was first discovered in 1929 and then re-discovered in 1986 when archaeologists excavated remarkable artifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being from the 12th-11th centuries BCE.The culture that produced these artifacts is now known as the Sanxingdui Culture, and archeologists are identifying it with the ancient kingdom of Shu.
N.B.
1) We suggest starting your tour at 07:00 because the pandas are active at 08:00 - 10:00. They are playing and eating breakfast in their houses and gardens. If you go there so late, the pandas will asleep.
2) Holding a panda in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding will cost RMB 1800 for 15 seconds. This is an optional activity for visitors.
Red Panda at Chengdu Giant Panda Base
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
Sanxingdui Museum Chengdu
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Day7 Chengdu
Transfer via: flight – your arrangement
Activities for today: Airport transfer (Chengdu)
Our private car and driver will be waiting to escort you to the airport for your onward journey.