Sichuan, China

Sichuan tours, things to do and tickets

Chengdu Cooking Class with a Local Market Visit

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Duration: 5 hours
Embark on a unique 4-hour culinary adventure that begins in the heart of the city. Your journey starts with a guided exploration of an authentic local spice market, where you’ll engage in fun, interactive challenges designed to introduce you to the aromatic Sichuan spices and fresh ingredients that will star in your cooking class. From the market, you’ll retreat to our cozy Chilli Cool Workshop in the city center. Here, you’ll be welcomed like an old friend with a cup of traditional Sichuan tea, a cherished local custom. Then, under the expert guidance of a professional chef in our intimate kitchen, you’ll bring your market finds to life, mastering the art of Sichuan cuisine. The experience culminates in a delightful feast as you savor the dishes you’ve created, perfectly paired with a selection of beers and beverages. More than just a class, it’s an informative, fun, and deeply memorable journey into the heart of Sichuanese culture.
$80*Per person

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Tuktuk Food Tour Through Chengdu's Local Eats

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Duration: 4 hours
This is not another walking tour. These small group tours whisk you off the beaten path by private tuktuk and offer unlimited beer and soda while you and your English speaking guide watch the city pass by. You will eat where the locals eat at small, family-run businesses and try the best local food at places you can’t find on your own. After 3-4 hours, you will finish at local bar to try some rice wine or beer with the locals!
$73*Per person

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Private Half-Day Chengdu Panda Breeding Center Tour with Optional Volunteer

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Duration: 3 hours - 4 hours
Spend a morning with some of China’s most majestic mammals during a private tour of the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center or the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center(only if "volunteer" option selected) from Chengdu. Accompanied by a professional English-speaking guide, stroll through the research and breeding facilities while observing the pandas and learning about their breeding and life stages. Visit the red panda area to see these quiet but territorial creatures. Don't want to waste your time at the airport? Now you can take this chance to see lovely pandas with NO VISA required if you take international flight via Chengdu. Select Layover Panda Tour with private transfer between airport and panda base, easily make the most of your time with a simple click.
$90*Per person

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Private Chengdu Day Tour: Giant Pandas and Jinsha Site Museum

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Duration: 8 hours
This private one-day tour focuses on the main highlights of Chengdu city. You will see China's national treasure, giant pandas in their natural habitat. After that you will stroll along ancient alleys and admire the historical Jinsha Site Museum. This tour will start early in the morning so that you can watch pandas at their most exciting time, during their daily breakfast feeding.
$169*Per person

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Dujingyan Panda tour option Giant panda or Red Panda Keeper

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Duration: 14 hours
about tours : Dujiangyan Panda Base, a peaceful sanctuary dedicated to panda rescue, rehabilitation, and conservation. Located in the mountains near Chengdu, this base is less crowded than the Chengdu Research Center and offers visitors a chance to see pandas in a more natural environment. Stroll through bamboo groves, watch giant pandas enjoy their daily activities, and learn how the sanctuary prepares pandas for possible release into the wild. we have 3 hours tour at Panda center with our local guide if without any additional activities optional A: Giant panda keeper , preparing food, smash bamboo , observe keepers feeding pandas by distance (need book this option at 1 day before ) option B : Red panda Keeper. interactive 20 mins, walking through red panda forest both extra options need extra 900CNY each to center on-site, and No physical touching , feeding ,must respect animals
$170*Per person

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Leshan Giant Buddha and Huanglongxi Ancient Town Day Trip

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Duration: 8 hours - 10 hours
The personal drivers we provide are professional drivers who serve foreign tourists all year round. They will do a good job of safety and service! This is a private travel event only for you and your family and friends. In order to save your costs we do not include tickets, and some older guests do not need tickets, but please bring your passport. The Leshan Giant Buddha (simplified Chinese: 乐山大佛; traditional Chinese: 樂山大佛; pinyin: Lèshān Dàfó) is a 71-metre (233 ft) tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang dynasty), depicting Maitreya.It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the southern part of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan. Huanglongxi Ancient Town features its ancient culture of water culture, Buddhism culture, tea culture, ecologic farming culture integrated with colorful folklore culture, screen culture and cooking culture.
$93*Per person

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Private Chengdu Panda Base Tour with Hotel Pickup

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Duration: 3 hours - 4 hours
Enjoy a private, stress-free panda experience with round-trip hotel transfers and a flexible schedule. Visit the pandas when they’re most active and avoid peak crowds whenever possible. With a friendly English-speaking guide, you’ll gain local insights while enjoying a smooth, well-planned tour. No tickets or transport to worry about—just relax and get up close with China’s national treasure.
$89*Per person

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Dujiangyan Panda Volunteering Experience with Lunch

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Duration: 9 hours
-Work closely with giant panda keepers, see the scene behind the stage -Contribute to conservation efforts of this vulnerable species -Hustle free:Hotel pick-up&drop-off, reservation service had included in the tour -TRIP NOTICE After covid, participants can not feed the panda anymore, but the rest behind-the-scene activities (prepare the bamboo, clean the cage, pick up panda pupu,make panda cakes... )are remain the same.
$279*Per person

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Sichuan Culture Opera Show in Chengdu

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Duration: 2 hours
Swap sopranos for fire-breathing acrobats at the Sichuan Opera, a one-of-a-kind cultural performance at Chengdu’s Shufeng Yayun Teahouse. You’ll be glued to your seat for 1.5 hours as you watch acrobats, dancers, and puppets in acts that include a ‘face-changing’ mask spectacle. Depending on your preferences, you might upgrade for better seats and snacks to go with your included Sichuan tea.
$30*Per person

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One Day Trip to Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Buddha Tour

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Duration: 5 hours - 8 hours
The Panda is the Highlights in Chengdu tour, chengdu panda base is about 30 mins car ride from Chengdu downtown.Chengdu giant panda center of breeding and research attracts almost 100,000 overseas visitors each year. Covering tens of hectares with bamboo groves and a native-like habitat, have more than 50 pandas,only here,you can see the baby panda in summer. The famous 71 meters Leshan Giant Buddha is carved out of a cliff face. It shows a seated Buddha with his hands on his knees. It is the tallest statue of the Buddha and the shoulders are 28 meters wide. The smallest toenail can easily seat a person and the 7 meters wide ear can accommodate two people. The head of the Leshan Giant Buddha is 14.7 meters tall and 10 meters wide and is covered with 1,021 buns of curly hair. People say:“The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain”
$93*Per person

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Giant Panda and Buddha 1 day tour

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Duration: 9 hours
This tour brings you to the adorable pandas and more! Pandas are more then good-looking and cute, they are special! Join us to find out a full story of how do they live, why are they here and even funny things about these precious neighbour and treasure of human being! The 71 metres tall Budhha carved out from the rock mountain located at the joining of river tributaries is one of the most impressive Buddhist sites in China. This impressive Buddha took 3 generations of best engineers and craftsmen 90 years to complete, since 713 AD. Highlights · Expert Guide · Full story of Pandas · Leshan Giant Budhha . max 8 persons small tour
$173.34*Per person

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Chengdu Panda Research Base Tickets And Optional Private Tour

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Duration: 4 hours
One of Chengdu’s most popular attractions, this panda park 18km north of the city centre is the easiest way to glimpse Sichuan’s most famous residents. Don't, however, make the mistake of thinking you'll be seeing wild pandas. They are kept in large enclosures and have a dedicated team of scientists and keepers tending to their every need. As well as living, breathing pandas, there are some fascinating panda information centres and museums explaining panda conservation and husbandry. Home to nearly 120 giant and 76 red pandas, the base focuses on getting these notoriously love-shy creatures to breed and has been remarkably successful at it. March to May is the ‘falling in love period’ (wink wink). If you visit during summer or autumn, you may see tiny newborns in the nursery incubators.
$14*Per person

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Half-Day Chengdu Back Alley Foodie Tour

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Duration: 3 hours - 4 hours
On this 4-hour food exploration tour, you will follow a local food expert who is fluent in English, weaving through the streets and alleys of Chengdu. As you stroll along, you'll taste authentic snacks while immersing yourself in the city's profound food culture. As a world-renowned culinary capital, Chengdu's charm extends beyond the dining table—it lies in the vibrant, lively atmosphere of its streets. We will take you deep into the old lanes beloved by locals, sampling 7 to 8 different kinds of authentic snacks and specialty dishes—from crispy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside egg puff pancakes to the spicy and savory Dan Dan noodles, and sizzling charcoal-grilled skewers… every bite is pure Chengdu flavor. Along the way, you'll take a short break at a century-old tea house, fully experiencing the slow pace of life that Chengdu locals enjoy. This is not just a food tour; it's an immersive journey into the Chengdu way of life.
$80*Per person

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Chengdu Private Sightseeing Tour with Panda Breeding Center Visit

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Duration: 7 hours - 8 hours
This private city sightseeing tour of Chengdu takes you to all the highlights: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Wenshu Temple, People’s Park and Old Town. Spend several hours watching adorable pandas before your guide takes you by private vehicle to the famous Zen Buddhist monastery for lunch. Then stroll down Kuanzhai Alley, followed by relax at a teahouse in the park. Your full-day tour includes an optional upgrade to see the Sichuan culture opera show.
$140.99*Per person

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Chengdu Panda Park Bus Tour with Option Leshan Giant Buddha

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Duration: 11 hours
Day Trip: Choose half-day pandas or the full adventure, with no shopping stops or hidden fees. Authentic, convenient, and unforgettable—book now to turn Sichuan’s best into your memories! This one-day tour combines Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Giant Buddha. We gather and depart at 8:00 a.m. for the Panda Base, where we spend about 3 hours exploring. After that, we head to Leshan Giant Buddha, with a 2.5-hour visit there. Finally, we return to Chengdu. The entire day’s journey takes approximately 11 hours. ---------- overview ---------- Option 1: Panda Park (Half-Day) Duration: 4.5-hour Departure time: 08:00 (daily) Return to city time: 12:30 Option 2: Panda Park + Leshan Buddha (Full-Day) Duration: 11-hour Departure time: 08:00(daily) Return to city time: 19:00 Gather at Chengdu IFS’s iconic panda sculpture, just steps from Taikoo Li—super easy to find. Wander bamboo groves to watch fluffy giants munch and play, then marvel at the 1,300-year-old UNESCO Leshan Giant Buddha.
$32*Per person

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Chengdu: Panda Base Leshan Buddha Tour(or Half Day Panda Base )

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Duration: 10 hours
*The most popular attractions of Chengdu: pandas and Leshan Buddha. *Sightseeing tour only without tourist traps. *Best use of time and money, visit pandas and Grand Buddha in 1 day. *English speaking group, transfer+guide+entry tickets all inclusive, easy and comfortable.
$30.5*Per person

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Private Leshan Giant Buddha and Local Food Tasting Trip

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Duration: 8 hours - 9 hours
Book this full day all inclusive tour, you will 1.Take comfortable high-speed train ,fast and no traffic jam! 2.Your informative private guide will show you the 1300 years old Leshan Giant Buddha, share the insight of history and local life. 3.Bon appetite! Leshan is also famous for really tasty food, explore the old neighborhood ,discover the food you may never heard of and try the authentic local dishes and snacks.
$199*Per person

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All Inclusive Private Day Tour of Chengdu Old Streets including City Top Attractions

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Duration: 7 hours - 8 hours
Beside your trip to see those cute Pandas, the most important thing is to explore the Chengdu city which is more than 3000 years old. Your driver guide will meet you at your hotel lobby to start this amazing time travel with you, you will show up at a busy market street origin in Han Dynasty, and find yourself in a holy temple from Tang Dynasty. What about a Mongolian residential area from Qing Dynasty? Well, this looks like a history trip? Yes but not only, we will introduce you the other important feature of Chengdu during the walks - FOOOOD! You can choose Sichuan cuisine/ local snacks/ hotpot/ vegetarian food as your lunch. You can even choose to visit a local wet market to know more about local's life. 7 hours are far too short, but we will try our best to give you more!
$127*Per person

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All Inclusive Private Trip to Chengdu Giant Panda Base and Leshan Giant Buddha

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Duration: 9 hours
MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME Visit the two highlights of Chengdu-Panda&Buddha in 1 day ALL INCLUSIVE PRICE Informative and friendly private guide,private transportation ,tasty local lunch, entrance fees are all included. HUSTLE FREE Your versatile guide and private transfer will ensure you a smooth and unforgettable journey. MEMORABLE TIME Experienced and informative local guide will give insight about panda, local culture ,history, ordinary people's life and answer all your questions:) Happy Stomach Try the authentic local delicacies at the old neighborhood of Leshan
$249*Per person

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Private Dujiangyan Panda Base Panda Rescue Center Volunteer for a Day

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Duration: 7 hours - 8 hours
Volunteer for a day with giant pandas on a private tour at the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center. Help record panda behavior, clean enclosures(if you'd like to) and prepare food with a professional animal keeper as you get up close to China’s beloved black and white bears. Your volunteer service and program fee help ensure the survival of this vital species and contribute to the important work of the non-profit research facility — one of three bases that are part of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP). Lunch and round-trip hotel transport by private vehicle from Chengdu are included.
$307*Per person

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