Day Tour: Chengdu Panda Breeding Base and Leshan Giant Buddha

• Hotel pick-up from Chengdu downtown hotels
• Escorted walking tour at Chengdu Panda Base
• Option A for an escorted walking tour along Leshan Giant Buddha or option B of a boat ride around the Buddha.
• Before arriving at Leshan Buddha, passengers need to vote for the choice of walking tour from the foot to head of the Buddha (Option A) or taking a boat ride (Option B).  You need to make an agreement for the whole team to do together.  The visiting time only allows to choose one option.  By taking the boat ride, you will miss the walking tour.
• Walking tour to Buddha (Option B) is cancelled from October 8, 2018 to February 4, 2019 due to the environmental examination.  Waterfront boardwalk at the Buddha's foot is under renovation on shoreline cliffs.  A boat ride to see the Giant Buddha will be arranged during this period (Option B).
• English-speaking tour guide service
• Admission tickets for Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Giant Buddha
• Transfers between attractions

• Extra cost for optional photo opportunity with baby panda by request (RMB$2,000
• person, proceed goes to Panda Research and Protection Program).
• Lunch
• Optional Sichuan Opera performance at a traditional tea house in Chengdu (RMB$160
• person for VIP seat; RMB$120 for regular seat).
• Gratuities for guide and driver (recommended)

Select Chengdu hotels in your hotel lobby, or you will be informed the nearest pickup hotel to meet with your guide

Between 7:20am and 7:40amHotel pickups commence prior to this time, you must contact the local service provider to verify your exact pickup time.

Tianfu Square, Chengdu

• Confirmation will be received at time of booking
• Before arriving at Leshan Buddha, passengers need to vote for the choice of walking up to the Buddha (Option A) or taking a boat ride (Option B).  You need to make an agreement for the whole team to do together.  The visiting time only allows to choose one option. 
• Waterfront boardwalk at the Buddha's foot is under renovation on shoreline cliffs from October 8, 2018 to February 4, 2019.  A boat ride to see the Giant Buddha will be arranged during this period (Option B). 
• This tour is a seat-in-coach tour, with a driver and a tour guide. You will share a coach with other passengers.
• Hotel information should be provided 24 hours before departure.
• The scheduled hotel pickup time is between 7:20am and 7:40am. Your tour guide will call you at your hotel before 10pm the day prior to tour departure to reconfirm exact time.
• If you do not receive a phone call from your tour guide the day before tour departure, please check with the front desk of your hotel for messages or refer to the emergency phone number on your confirmation voucher and call your tour operator.
• Please note that pickup service is only available to guests staying at hotel list in downtown Chengdu area. If you live in the outskirt of Chengdu,  please go to Sheraton Lido Hotel Chengdu to join in this tour. The pickup time from Sheraton Lido Hotel Chengdu is 7:30am.
• There are no unwelcome factory or tourist shop visits. 
• Optional Evening Activity: There is an optional 1.5 hours evening Sichuan Opera performance at a traditional tea house available at 8pm. The performance includes famous face changing, fire spitting, and lights rolling tricks by the performers along with puppet and hand-shadow impression shows. There are traditional Chinese musics playing while you sipping on a cup of Sichuan jasmine tea. You will be picked up from Tianfu Square and transferred back to your hotel after the show.