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Day
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Arrival / Chengdu (D)
Transfer via: Flight on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Sichuan Opera
Dinner: Qin Shan Zhai Restaurant
Take flight to Chengdu. Arrived in Chengdu, be met and transferred to your hotel.
Free at leisure until your guide pick up you and take you to have a dinner at Qin Shan Zhai Restaurant, It is famous for its restorative, which has two types with one is fried dish and the other is hotpot. The soup is cooked in light taste and good for your health.
After dinner, you will appreciate the classic operatic circle of the origin of a hundred years-Sichuan Opera, and enjoy some local snacks while watching performance.
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Day
2
Chengdu (B, L, D)
Sightseeing: Panda Breeding and Research Base, Thatched Cottage of Dufu, Chunxi Street
Lunch: Shu Long Restaurant
Dinner: Huang Cheng Lao Ma Restaurant
This morning we will visit the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base, which was built to imitate the wild ecological environment of pandas. It covers a space of 92 acres, with a green coverage of 96 percent. The base created a perfect ecological environment for the living and breeding of pandas and other precious and rare wild animals. It breeds over 20 pandas and lesser pandas, black-necked cranes, white cranes and others.
Have lunch at Shu Long Restaurant. Then we continue to visit the Thatched Cottage of Dufu, located by the side of the Huanhua Stream in Chengdu's western suburb, will be our first stop today. It was the residence of Dufu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty when he took refuge in Chengdu. Du Fu (712-70 AD),one of China's most famous poets, left home at the tender age of 20, becoming a court official at the former capital in Chang'an (near Xi'an). Du Fu's civil service duties did not last long however, and he was captured by rebels and forced to flee the city for Chengdu after only a few years. It was in Chengdu, at this small and simple house, that Du Fu was inspired to write more than 200 poems which are regarded today as masterpieces of realist poetry.
After that, we will head to Chunxi Street. You can sample local arts and craft, traditional Chinese goods, local food and delicious snacks in the streets.
Enjoy your dinner at Huang Cheng Lao Ma Restaurant, which is famous for its delicious hotpot; it caters hundreds of dishes to diners.
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Day
3
Chengdu / Departure (B, L)
Transfer via: Flight on our arrangement
Sightseeing: Wu Hou Temple, Jinli Old Street
Lunch: Long Chao Shou Snack
Today you will visit the Wuhou Memorial Temple. The Temple is dedicated to Zhuge Liang, the Martial Marquis of Shu in the Three Kingdoms. His outstanding intelligence place Zhuge Liang above all emperors, generals, and ministers in history.
Afterwards you will take a walk along Jinli Street which is particularly representative for this city. It is recorded that as already during Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206 BC), Jinli Street was the most famous place for baldachin - a rich, ornate cloth. During Shu Kingdom (221-263) it was one of the busiest commercial streets. Hence, it is known as 'First Street of the Shun Kingdom'. In order to reclaim the street's prosperity of former days, it was restored with contributions from the Wuhou Memorial Temple and was opened to public in October of 2004.
You will have lunch at Long Chao Shou Snack, which is a time-honored snack bar with different kinds of snack. Ordering a package of snack it gives you a chance of tasting all the delicious food in Chengdu.
In the afternoon, you will be transferred to airport to take flight to next destination.