Giant Buddha & Hidden Tea Village Day Trip from Chengdu

Highlights:

1.Culture Heritage by UNASCO

2.Off-road visit to countryside and 500 years old town

3.Visit to traditional workshops

4.Comprehensive Tea Learning - drinking in old tea house, picking tea from plantation, visit tea workshop

5. Visit old courtyard house and listen to stories from the owner

Itinerary:

After greeting at your hotel a 2.5 hours drive takes us to Giant Buddha. We would take the boat trip to have a unforgettable panoramic view of Buddha.

After visiting Buddha，there will be 40 mins drive to a laid-back old town. Take a walk around the town
where traditional lifestyles still survived from the modernization. Along the way we visit traditional workshops such as blacksmith’s shop, bamboo workshop, barber shop etc. Enjoy tea and chat and share stories with lovely local people in old teahouse and later drop in one of the hundred-year-old courtyard house where it’s owner are so proud of and love to share stories of the house.

A short drive takes us up to the mountain. The tea farmer will take us to the tea field, where we will learn a lot about tea from how to pick-up the best tea sprouts or tea buds, to weather conditions and different regions for Tea. Have a try of picking tea from the tea trees!

Afterward visiting the tea business family to reveal the process of making all kinds of tea, let’s sit down in front of the farm house and enjoy tea – more stories sharing and learning of tea, as in of wine there are Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir in tea as well! 

Departure point:  your hotel

Departure time:   7:30-8:30a.m.

Duration: 9 hours (approx.)

Inclusions:

· Transport throughout the day

· Boat for Giant Buddha

· Old town walking tour

· Family & Old house visit

· Local lunch

· Tea plantation visit

Exclusions:

· Climbing for Giant Buddha

· Gratuities (recommended)