● Highlights & Features :

Du Fu’s Thatched Cottage
It is the cottage of the great poet Du fu of the Tang Dynasty, beside the Huanhua Creek. In the second year of the Qianyuan period of the Tand Dynasty (759 AD),
Du Fu tramped from the neighbouring Shaanxi Province to Chengdu and built himself a thatched house there where he stayed for nearly four years and wrote 240 poems. The first temple in his memory was built during the Song Dynasty and in the succeeding dynasties , people repeatedly renovated the temple and added more buildings to the place.

Qing Cheng Shan(the Green-city Mountain)

73 kilometer away from Chengdu, it is to the southwest of Guanxian County. Known as one of the birthplaces of Taoism in China, this was the place where Zhang Daoling, one of the founders of Taoism, built a temple to preach Taoism. Now there are several imposing, well-kept halls and pavilions. The mountain is thickly wooded and has thus earned its fame as ‘Qingcheng is the quietest place in the world.”

Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System
Southwest to Guanxian County and 57 kilometer from Chengdu, it is the ancient irrigation project built three centuries before Christ. Led by Li Bing, the Shu prefecture magistrate, and his son, the local people threw up a dike in the middle of the Minjiang River to irrigate the Chengdu plain through a network of canals. The project has stood tests throughout the more than 2,200 years. On the banks of the Minjiang there are Taoist temples in memory of Li Bing and his son.

Tea Houses and Free Markets
1, The tea house has been an inseparable part of the local life of Chengdu for a long, long time. ChengDu’s many teahouses differ in styles, but all have a strong local flavor: bamboo chairs, tables, tripartite tea sets—covers, cups and saucers--,red copper teapots, and the unique skill with which the waiters pour boiling water into the cups.
In ChengDu, tourists can find old style teahouses scattered throughout streets and lanes, cultural teahouses in parks and on the sites of tourist attractions, thatched teahouses by bus stops, wharf and markets and luxurious ones built in the busy city in recent years.
The teahouses which provide video shows, organize lectures, chess and bird contests and offer traditional storytelling and dulcimer performances attract people old and young.
2, Free markets There are quite a few free markets in ChengDu, one or two back streets where large enough to cover raw meat, fresh fruits and vegetables and other kinds of food-staff are sold by private peddlers.
In addition, flowers, home-pets, cooking ingredients, local arts and crafts and other daily necessities are there for sale at cheaper price. This kind of market enjoys a wide popularity with the local residents due to its concentration of fine commodity, bargain price and good location.

● Proposed Itineraries
D1: Arrive Chengdu (air)
Met at airport and transfer to the hotel.
D2: Chengdu
Panda Breeding Station, Du Fu’s Thatched Cottage Free market
D3: Chengdu
Dujiang Dam-Qing Cheng Mountain, Face-changing Show at teahouse.
D4: Chengdu
Jinsha Ruins Museum in the morning. After lunch, leave for next destination.

Quotation: 390USD P/P
Include: City & airport transfer, 6 meals, private van and English tour guide, all entrance fee of the scenic spots listed in the itinerary, 3 nights accommodations at 4-5 star hotel.
Excluded: Air tickets to and leave Chengdu, Personal consumes and tips.

*The above proposed itineraries are subject to the revision and readjustment
upon the specific request.