Chengdu Panda City Culutre Leshan Buddha and Food Tour 3 days

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Why we love it?

This three-day tour in Chengdu and Leshan offers a deep dive into local culture and heritage, starting with an up-close visit to the pandas and a backstage look at a Sichuan opera tea house. You’ll explore the antiques market and enjoy tea and Mahjong at the People’s Park before savoring a Sichuan hotpot dinner. The journey continues with a boat trip to the Giant Buddha, followed by a walk through a traditional old town featuring blacksmith and bamboo workshops, a century-old courtyard house, and tea tastings with local farmers. You’ll learn about tea picking and production on a mountain plantation, then participate in a cooking class using ingredients gathered from a vibrant spice market, preparing Sichuan tea and local dishes in a courtyard restaurant. This itinerary suits travelers interested in cultural heritage, traditional crafts, tea culture, and hands-on culinary experiences.

Inclusions

  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Boat for Giant Buddha
  • Old town walking tour
  • Family & Old house visit
  • Tea plantation visit
  • Panda Center
  • Explore the backstage of Sichuan Opera
  • Tea & Majhong in a local teahouse
  • antique market
  • Hotpot dinner. (sharing group)
  • beers or beverages in the cooking class
  • Souvenir for the class
  • Recipes
  • 3-dishes cooking class

Exclusions

  • Climbing for Giant Buddha
  • Gratuities (recommended)

Itinerary

Day 1
  • Panda & City Culture of Chengdu

  • We pick up from hotel and 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!

  • After lunch we drive to visit the backstage of Sichuan opera tea house. In the grass root style opera house, lots of old fans here every day, meet up friends and enjoy the show. We can be one of them, watching the performance and drinking tea. But the most interesting part of this tour, you have chance to go into their backstage to see how the actor actress make up and chanting with them.

  • Visit the famous Antiques Market in southwest area. this is th best way you can deep touch the local culture.

  • On the way to the people’s park, you will have a chance to try your luck with local. Just relax and enjoy tea and learn more about tea culture. Also there is a chance to learn and play Majhong - one of the most popular games in Chengdu !!

  • woowww, Sichuan hotpot dinner. if you don't like hot food, we can offer you the no spicy soup hotpot aswell.

Day 2
  • Giant Buddha&Tea Terrace In Lost Town

  • After leaving from 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.

    also we shall have such great local lunch here.

  • 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!
    Remember to bring the tea you picked from the farm. And we should use them in the next cooking class day.

  • lots famous local snack and food we will try in the lost town

Day 3
  • Cooking Class with Local Spice Market Visit

  • Meet up your guide at the hotel lobby, and then your guide will take you to explore the dazzling local spice market with the assigned challenge for you to obtain some special ingredients and spices which will be used in the cooking class afterwards. After the fun experience in the local spice market, you will take a walk through the back streets to get some real local food for Lunch.

  • After theLunch, we will head into a hidden gem - a traditional Sichuan courtyard restaurant where soon the ingredients and spices you collected from the market will be put in use. 
    Another break will be taken place in the courtyard with Sichuan Gaiwan tea as the traditional custom to entertain guests.

  • After learning Sichuan tea culture, the food preparations will be guided by the professional chef. Follow your chef 's instructions step by step to process food till it gets well done. 

    1 Tea dish and 2 other famous local dishes class will be cooked by your own

  • the dinner you learn from out cooking class

Please Note

  • Stroller or pram accessible
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Not suitable for pets
  • Infant seats unavailable we pickup from you hotel, please leave your hotel info for us when you book this trip

Know Before You Go

  • Public transportation nearby
  • Infants must sit on laps

Cancellation Policy

Fully refundable until 1 day before start

Non-refundable after 1 day before start

From $824 Per 2 adults