3-Day Classic Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong Flight Tour

Ziua 1 · Chengdu - Jiuzhaigou Valley. O/N Jiuzhaigou town.

1. 1

   Chengdu

   10 min

   At 8:00am, our guide and driver will meet you at your Chengdu hotel lobby and transfer to Chengdu Panda base, need 30 minutes driving, 15km.

   Note: You should check out at this morning and bring all your luggage to the car since after the panda tour, you will head to the Jinli street or Renming park and you don't back to the hotel.

2. 2

   Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding

   2 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Chengdu's Giant Panda Breeding Research Base is home to over 80 of China's iconic pandas. Most are of the familiar black and white variety, but the Base is also home to a number of the smaller, lesser-known red pandas.

   You'll view the animals eating and at play in a carefully maintained habitat that is as close to their natural environment as possible. You'll also learn how scientists and ecologists are working to protect the few remaining wild pandas and expand the captive population. On that last note, over 100 bears have been born at the Base since 1987.

   The Base became even more important after the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, with eight bears sent here from the badly damaged Wolong reserve. Your visit provides both moral and financial support for the ongoing conservation effort.

3. 3

   Kuanzhai Alley

   o oră

   Next, go to the Chengdu Kuanzhai alley for shopping or lunch and of ocurse, you can go somewhere else , like the Jinli old street or Renmin park, you can discuss with our guide and the flight will be depart around 17:00pm this afternoon.

   The Kuanzhai Alley,an unique commercial street with rows of ancient buildings; perfect site to do shopping and enjoy meals or coffee.

   The feature of the Zhai Alley in Chengdu is the leisure lifestyle. After the renovation in 2008, Zhai Alley has became a district to present the gardening culture of Chengdu. The gardening culture here shows a traditional and graceful culture of Chengdu, that is a family has a garden, a garden surrounds a house, a house contains a courtyard, a courtyard plans trees, trees are under the sky, the sky has the moon… In Zhai Alley, western restaurants, take-away inn, café, art and leisure workshop are the major factors.

4. 4

   Oprirea 4

   2 ore

   After the lunch, you will be escorted to Chengdu Shuangliu International airport for the onward flight to Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Airport (Jiuhuang Airport), which takes about 50 minutes.

   Note: The tour guide will be the same person from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou and our guide will flight with you as well.

5. 5

   Oprirea 5

   30 min

   Upon arrival in Jiuzhaigou Jiuhuang airport, our guide will find the our local driver there and transfer to Jiuzhaigou town, need 2.5hrs driving, 130km.

6. 6

   Jiuzhaigou County

   15 ore

   When you reach the hotel in Jiuzhaigou, the tour guide will help you check in. You could either have a free walk around or have a good rest at the hotel.

Overnight at Jiuzhaigou town, a 4-star level hotel.

Ziua 2 · Jiuzhaigou Valley. O/N Jiuzhaigou town.

1. 1

   Jiuzhaigou Natural Reserve

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Your guide and driver will meet you at 9:00am of your hotel lobby then move to the Jiuzhai Valley National Park.

   Today, you will have a full day to explore the Jiuzhai Valley. There are 9 Tibetan villages in the valley, so called the name. Its best-known feature is its dozen of blue, green and turquoise-colored lakes. Jiuzhai Valley consists of three valleys – Rize Valley, Shuzheng Valley and Zechawa Valley, forming a shape of "Y". It is said that there is no other place as peaceful as in Jiuzhaigou all over the world.

   The travel route is: Entrance - Rize Valley - Nuorilang Tourist Center - Zechawa Valley - Shuzheng Valley - Exit.

2. 2

   Rize Valley

   2 ore

   When we arrive at the entrance center and take the ticket. Then take the shuttle bus to Rize Valley.

   The Rize Valley is 18 kilometers long and begins at its southerly tip with a section of primeval forest that covers about half of the entire greater Jiuzhai Valley area. Rize Valley describes a series of smooth "S" curves along its south-north section (it turns eastward farther north, connecting with Zechawa and Shuzheng Valleys) as it snakes its way northward, its northerly half, except for the west-east oriented section, being one long series of scenic sites – almost all of which are lakes.

3. 3

   Arrow Bamboo Lake

   20 min

   Firstly, we will visit the Arrow Bamboo Lake and hiking to walk to Panda Lake(30 minutes hiking) then take a shuttle bus to Five Flower Lake, walk around Five Flower Lake for 20 minutes.

   The Arrow Bamboo Lake is a shallow lake, measuring a depth of only 6 meters at its deepest, which also explains the presence of copious amounts of the tall, slender bamboo plant, Pseudosasa japonica, called arrow bamboo, aka hardy (as in "resilient") bamboo. Arrow Bamboo Lake figured in the 2002 film, Hero, starring Jet Li and directed by the famous Yimou Zhang, effusively praised (also by yours truly!) for his 1991 film, Raise the Red Lantern (starring the planet's most beautiful, most enchanting female, Li Gong) that at the time was not shown in China (but note that Yimou Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics).

4. 4

   Pearl Shoal Waterfalls

   40 min

   We will continue take a bus from Five Flower Lake to Pearl Shoals and walk to Pearl Shoals Waterfall until to Mirrow Lake parking.

   The Zhenzhu Tan Pearl Shoals is a broad, shallow course of water that flows over a 310-meter-broad, gently sloping bed of travertine, ending in a drop, or waterfall, of 28 meters. Both the shoals and the waterfall can be appreciated in and of themselves, but together they form a pleasing unity, since the gentle, shallow body of water that seems to slide over the ledge abruptly changes character once at the ledge, where it spills over, crashing against irregular stones that form another ledge slighly displaced in relation to the first ledge and creating a spray of mists as the thus broken sheet of water courses noisily over this irregular ledge and falling, in all, in a 40-meter arc into the lake below.

   The Pearl Shoals and Waterfall are considered one of the highlights of Rize Valley, rivalling, in their own way, Shuzheng Valley's famous Nuorilang Waterfall. If the visitor follows the boardwalk here, s/he will enjoy an enviable broadside view of the torrential waterfall in all its beauty and magnificence. Pearl Shoals and Waterfall was the venue for one of the scenes in a CCTV (China Central Television) adaptation of the famous 16th century historical novel, Pilgrimage to the West (alternately known as Journey to the West, Monkey King or simply Monkey – to learn more about Monkey King, which is a fictional chronicle of the life of the humble monk, Xuan Zang, who traveled, together with a motley crew of assistant monks, from China to India during the Tang (CE 618-907) Dynasty period in order to learn about Buddhism firsthand.

5. 5

   Oprirea 5

   1 h 30 min

   Next, go to Zechawa Valley and the travel route is: Nuorilang center , transfer bus to the end of Zechawa Valley- Long Lake , walk from Long lake to Five Colored Pool. bus to Nuorilang-Rhinoceros Lake-Bonsai Shoals.

6. 6

   Shuzheng Valley

   3 ore

   Afterwards, visit the Shuzheng Valley. Hiking from Nuorilang waterfall. Along the way, you will visit the Rhinoceros Lake, Tiger Lake, Shuzheng Fall, Reed Lake, till the last spot Bonsai Lake. And then, get on the scenic shuttle bus and get to the scenic spot exit.

Overnight at Jiuzhaigou town, a 4-star level hotel.

Ziua 3 · Jiuzhaigou - Huanglong National Park - Chengdu. The tour end.

1. 1

   Jiuzhaigou County

   10 min

   In the morning, your driver and guide will meet you at 8:30am and transfer to Huanglong National Park and need 2.5hrs driving, 110km.

2. 2

   Huanglong Scenic Valley

   3 ore Intrarea inclusă

   The Huanglong National Park, where densely scatters thousands of colorful travertine ponds and flow streams. We walk along the hundreds of colorful lakes to the top along the wooden path, then walk down to appreciate the nice scenery along the way. Huanglong Scenic Area is famous for its colorful lakes, snow-topped mountains, beautiful valleys and virgin forests. The area, inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1992 by UNESCO, has been called a "World Wonder" and “Fairy Land on Earth."

3. 3

   Huanglong Valley

   2 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Today, you will visit the Huanglong valley section and going up by cable car and down by foots is the best way due to the high altitude(3400M).

   When you reach the upper station by cable car, walking along the parallel path which will take us 40 minutes, and we will arrive at an active platform. Spanning more than 1km, the parallel path has no steps and won't waste your strength. Keep climbing for 1km, and we will arrive at the most famous spot, multicolored pond. The highest point of multicolored pond reaches 3900 meters, which is also the highest point of the scenic spot that tourists can arrive. Along with relief elevation of land surfaces, these calcified ponds distribute by terraces.

4. 4

   Oprirea 4

   1 h 30 min

   Afterwards, take the private car to jiuhuang airport abd today the flight will be later than 17:00pm and we will be arrival Chengdu around 20:00pm.

5. 5

   Oprirea 5

   30 min

   When you land in Chengdu airport, your Chengdu local driver will meet you at the arrival exit and takes you to Chengdu hotel /train station.

6. 6

   Chengdu

   10 min

   After the 40 minutes driving, you will reach the Chengdu hotel/train station and our guide will help you check in.End of our services.