Travel from Chengdu, home of the panda, to the spiritual sanctuary of Tibet.
You will get up close and personal with pandas, visit the Sanxingdui Ruins in Chengdu, the sacred Potala Palace and the breathtaking scenery of the snow-covered Tibetan plateau.
This 6-day itinerary will surely bring you the most unique travel experience in China.
After arriving in Chengdu and picking up, you can freely move around
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Drinking tea at the Heming Tea House in People's Park allows you to experience the tea culture of old Chengdu. Here, you can also enjoy one of the best experiences in Chengdu, "Digging Your Ears", and experience the true slow time of Chengdu.
Wenshu Monastery is one of the national key Buddhist temples designated by the State Council, the first of the four major Zen forests in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, and a key cultural relic protection unit in Sichuan Province; It is a Buddhist holy site that integrates Zen forest relics, ancient gardens, worship and sightseeing, and religious practice. Covering an area of over 200000 square meters, the existing building is a typical ancient architectural style of the western Sichuan Plain, made entirely of wood. The six main halls face the central axis of the mountain gate in sequence, creating a magnificent and majestic atmosphere.
Chengdu Yuanyang Taikoo Li is located at Chunxi Road subway station, with convenient transportation. The neighboring thousand year old temple Daci Temple adds a unique historical and cultural charm to it. The architectural style is unique, with interwoven alleys and open square spaces, presenting different urban pulse, while introducing the concepts of fast and slow neighborhoods, setting a trend model for international metropolises. Here, a series of international first-line luxury brands, trendy clothing brands, Michelin starred restaurants, and well-known domestic and foreign restaurants converge, forming a unique atmosphere of metropolitan leisure taste, numerous exquisite restaurants, historical culture, and commercial integration, allowing people to slowly enjoy a wonderful time in the busy urban center.
After breakfast, we will depart for Kangding. After finishing lunch in Kangding, we will take a simple rest and continue our journey to Sidingcuo. We will visit Sidingcuo, which is located in the Zheduo Mountain area of Kangding, adjacent to Kangding Airport, at an altitude of 4260 meters. It is an uninhabited area of alpine meadows. Even with every step, the scenery is breathtaking, like a psychedelic fairyland. Known as the 'Pearl of the Kangba Plateau'. The beautiful scenery around the holy lake is infinite, and facing south, you can see Gongga Mountain, the king of Shu Mountain. The travel time is about 40 minutes. Afterwards, we went to Honghaizi. After arriving at Kangding Airport on the Zheduo Mountain in Kangding, Mugecuo arrived at the tourist ring road of Tagong. There was a beautiful sea called "Honghaizi" by the locals, facing the snow capped Bijia Mountain. Every sunny afternoon, the clear water and blue sky, the water surface like a mirror, and the snow capped peaks reflected in the lake, like a fairyland. As the sun sets, the snow capped peaks are dyed golden, creating a magnificent sight. This is an ideal place to capture the beauty of high mountains and lakes. The travel time is about 20 minutes. Passing through the internet famous Rainbow Airport Road (with Gongga Snow Mountain as the background, blue sky and white clouds, high mountains and grasslands, easily photographed), head to Yuzi West, which has an altitude of about 4200m and a travel time of about 1 hour; It offers a 360 degree panoramic view of Yala Mountain, one of the four major sacred mountains in the Tibetan region known as the "Second Shambhala", as well as the complete view of the Muya Gongga Great Snow Mountain range, making it a rare scenic photography spot in the Gongga West Slope area; (Cleaning fee 20-50 yuan/person, local residents may charge depending on the situation); The travel time is about 30 minutes. Then go to Xinduqiao Hotel and rest after dinner.
After breakfast, depart from the hotel and head to Tianlu Shibawan, with a distance of about 90 kilometers and a 2-hour drive; The Tianlu Eighteen Bay Observation Deck has an altitude of about 3900m and a travel time of about 20 minutes; The 18th bend of Tianlu Road is in a U-shape, with three observation decks along the entire route, providing a spectacular view of the road. Afterwards, we depart for Kazila Mountain and arrive at noon to head to Litang Letong Ancient Town. After lunch, we will visit Litang Letong Ancient Town - Qianhu Zangzhai&Litang Xichengmen, with an altitude of about 4000m and a travel time of about 1 hour. The admission fee is 100 yuan and the sightseeing ticket is 35 yuan In Litang Tibetan, it is called "Le Tong", which means bronze, "Tong" means grassland, and "Le" means flat grassland like a bronze mirror. Letong Ancient Town is also the only cultural town in China that relies on Tsangyang Gyatso to create a scenic spot for Tsangyang Gyatso's lifelong journey. In terms of planning and construction, Letong Ancient Town maximizes the preservation of the natural landscape and rural flavor of the Tibetan ethnic settlement, striving to create a plateau city village connected landscape of "scenery in the city, city in the scenery, and integration of scenery and city". It is also known as the "world's tallest city". Check in at the West Gate of Litang City and take the necessary road signs. Then depart for Shangri La Town, with a distance of 240km and a drive of about 4.6 hours. After dinner, check in at a hotel to rest;
After breakfast, head to the "Daocheng Yading Short Line" with an average altitude of about 4000 meters and a travel time of about 4 hours. Route reference (short line): Tourist Center - Zhaguan Beng - Chonggu Temple - Pearl Sea. After breakfast, enter the scenic area and travel for 4 hours; Take the sightseeing bus from the tourist reception center to Zhaguanbang, walk for about ten minutes to reach Chonggu Temple, pass through Chonggu Grassland, and then reach Pearl Sea for self exploration. After the tour is over, return to the original route and take the sightseeing bus out of the scenic area to check into the hotel.
After breakfast, I stayed in Ganzi and rested a few times on the way. Today, I drove all day and checked into a hotel to rest;
After breakfast, depart from Xinlong and pass through Ganzi County to reach Seda County. After lunch. Go to Seda Buddhist College and visit the Seda Larong Wuming Buddhist College. The Larong Temple Wuming Buddhist College in Seda County is located in Larong Gully, Luoruo Township, Seda County, with an average altitude of 3900 meters and an area of 4 square kilometers. The temple complex covers an area of 2.35 square kilometers and has a building area of approximately 1.7 square kilometers. It is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist academies in the world, and the monasteries here are magnificent. The valleys stretching for several kilometers are covered with dense wooden huts. There are several temples and Buddhist halls distributed on the valley floor and mountain ridges. Although the building scale is not very large, the decoration is exquisite and magnificent; Lamas and nuns wearing paddle red robes come and go, and the air is filled with vitality and a peaceful atmosphere. (Currently, the Buddhist Academy offers a sightseeing bus ride to the mountaintop for ticket collection, and a walking tour down the mountain. Our company has a special afternoon trip up the mountain to enjoy the night view of Seda.). After dinner, check into the Seda County Hotel to rest.
After breakfast, depart for Moshi Park. Passing through Luhuo, Daofu, and Bamei, you will arrive at Moshi Park. Due to the long journey, a light meal will suffice along the way. The driving distance is about 302km, and the driving time is about to enter Moshi Park for sightseeing (ticket: 60/person, sightseeing bus: 20/person). The China Moshi Park scenic area is located at the junction of Kama Village and Zhonggu Village in Daofu Bamei Town, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan Province. It is situated in the core area of China Landscape Avenue 318 National Highway, adjacent to well-known scenic spots such as Danba Meiren Valley, Kangding Xinduqiao, and Yajiang Kangba Hanzi Village. It is about 6 kilometers away from Bamei Town and 400 meters away from the Sichuan Tibet Highway. The area is 5 square kilometers and the altitude is about 3500 meters. It is a transit station for communication between Hailuo, the pinnacle of Shangri La, and Daocheng Yading, the soul of Shangri La. It boasts magnificent grasslands, graceful wetlands, fantastic ink stones, distinctive residences, plateau flower seas, golden autumn, White Pagoda Holy Temple, and eight wonders of sunrise and sunset. Appreciating mulberry trees in spring and escaping summer heat in autumn, admiring colorful forests in autumn and stepping on snow in winter "is a characteristic of the scenery throughout the year. The natural landscape of Moshi, which stretches along the Xianshui River fault zone, is even more coveted by the world and is known as the" eighth beauty of China's landscape road ". The tour time is about 2.5 hours. Departing from Moshi Park, it will take about 2 hours to travel to Danba. After dinner, check into the hotel and rest.
After breakfast, head to Mount Siguniang. Starting from Danba, passing through Xiaojin and Panda Avenue, arrive at Siguniangshan Town. The mileage is about 110km and the travel time is about 3 hours. After lunch in Siguniangshan Town, head to Shuangqiaogou Scenic Area in Siguniangshan. Enter Shuangqiaogou Scenic Area for sightseeing (ticket: 80/person, sightseeing bus: 70/person). Shuangqiaogou is located in the Siguniang Mountain Scenic Area in Xiaojin County. The Siguniang Mountain Scenic Area consists of three parts: Shuangqiaogou, Changpinggou, and Haizigou. The Shuangqiaogou Scenic Area, with a total length of over 30 kilometers and an area of 216.6 square kilometers, is the most concentrated and charming. In the Shuangqiaogou, which is over 30 kilometers long, there are many tall and steep mountains like this. There are Guozhuang Mountain at the entrance of the painting screen, Rhinoceros Watching the Moon, Penguin Mouth, and Jiandao Mountain near the fish catching dam... However, both sides of the ditch are mountains, but the mountains are different. Everywhere in the ditch is a scenery, and the scenery is different. It can be said that "when viewed horizontally, the ridges and sides form peaks, and the distance and height are different". At an altitude of 400 meters in Shuangqiaogou, there are not only common birch forests, poplar forests, and maple forests in low mountain areas, but also spruce, fir, and redwood forests in high areas, as well as sea buckthorn, shrubs, and larch forests. When this three-dimensional distribution of plants is combined with the unique male shaped mountains, it forms the eight major landscapes of Shuangqiaogou, including the Five Colored Mountain. After the tour, we will go through Mount Balang, Wolong, Yingxiu, Dujiangyan Irrigation Project, and return to the third ring road of Chengdu, near Tiekou in the mainland, to finish our pleasant journey!
According to the flight schedule, drop off and return, ending this trip
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