3 Days Sichuan Cuisine Gourmet Tour to Chengdu

Destination:Chengdu

Tour Code: CFT08

Tour Duration: 3 Days

Tour overview:
Sichuan Cuisine has enjoyed fame for long, which is represented by Chengdu food. As for the Chengdu gourmet, fried fish and hotpot are two representative foods. Entering the Long Chao Shou Snack Bar, you will have the chance to taste all the delicious of Chengdu. Chengdu is a gourmet city that will never let you down!

Day by Day Itinerary

Tour Summary

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B=Breakfast,L=Lunch,D=Dinner

Day 1

Arrival / Chengdu (D)

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.

Day 2

Chengdu (B, L, D)

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.

Day 3

Chengdu / Departure (B, L)

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.

B=Breakfast,L=Lunch,D=Dinner

Tour Dates Destinations Services Provided Meals Included
Day 1
Chengdu

Arrived in Chengdu, be met and transferred to your hotel. Evening enjoy the Sichuan Opera.
Dinner: Qin Shan Zhai Restaurant.

Hotel: First Class Deluxe Class Tourist Class
  Crowne Plaza Hotel Green Land Hotel Chengdu Civil Aviation Hotel
B L D
Day 2
Chengdu

Full day visit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding ,Thatched Cottage of Dufu, Chunxi Street.
Lunch: Shu Long Restaurant.
Dinner: Huang Cheng Lao Ma Restaurant.

Hotel: First Class Deluxe Class Tourist Class
  Crowne Plaza Hotel Green Land Hotel Chengdu Civil Aviation Hotel
B L D
Day 3
Chengdu

Morning visit Wuhou Memorial Temple , Jinli Street . After the tours, be transferred to airport for your flight to next destination.
Lunch: Long Chao Shou Snack.

B L D

-NOTE:

1. Normally hotels allow a maximum of 3 adults per room with an extra bed, at extra charge. Some hotels will allow three adults and a small child.

2. Tour price is indicative only, please enquire for a detailed quotation.

3. More people more discounts. Please enquire for more details.

Price Includes

A. Entrance fees:To scenic spots as listed above in the itinerary.
B. Meals: All meals as specified in the itinerary.
C. Private Transfers: Among airports, hotels and scenic spots while sightseeing in the above cities by the private air conditioned vehicle.
D. Guide and Driver: As outlined in the itinerary, a well selected English-speaking guide and driver will accompany you throughout the entire tour in that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.
E. Hotels: Hotel Based on two persons sharing one room with twin beds. All hotels as listed in the above itinerary serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.
F. Luggage Transfers: Between airports and hotels.
G. Service Charge & Government Taxes.
H. Travel insurance in mainland China during the above travel period.
I. Arrangements: The tour cost includes planning, handling, operational and communication charges.

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