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5 days' coach tour to Jiuzhaigou reserve, Huanglong reserve, Leshan big buddha statue and mount emeishan
by mini bus
Alert: the tour starts at your hotel in Chengdu city and ends at Chengdu shuangliu international airport; if you prefer to have other service, such as airport-hotel before Day01 and hotel-airport transfer, please let us know before you put reservation on this tour
Day01: Chengdu to Huanglong to Jiuzhaigou ----- L/D ----------------- 3* Hotel
In the morning, take flight (45 minutes in air) to visit Jiuzhaigou, the flight will land at Chuanzhusi airport, met and tehn transferred to visit Hanglong nature reserve. Huanglong is located in a deep mountain valley, about 55 kilometers to the east of Chuanzhusi town; to get there, the vehicle will pass Xuebaoding mountain pass (4200 meter), from where you can see the 5588 meters snow peak: Peak of Xuebaoding.
Huanglong is famous for is colorful calcificated deposit from water rich of calcium, the deposit looks golden under the flowing water; its shape and its colour is like a swiming dragon in the shining ripple of the down flowing waters.
There is a zigzag wooded path leading you to the top, at the end of the climbing is a huge snow covered peak, looking beautiful agaist the sunshine. you need two hours to get to the top and then another 2 hours to jump down.
Day02: Jiuzhaigou sightseeing ---------------- B/L/D ---------------- 3* Hotel
You have a full day tour to Multi-coloured Lakes which are scaterred through the Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve, such as Rorhilang Water Falls, Shuzhen water fall, Water fall of pearls, Long Lake and the Panda lake, and more...., if the weather is sunny, it is my promise that here will be your paradise of photo taking.
Generally, Jiuzhaigou looks like a big "Y" on its shape, the netrance to the nature is at the bottom of the "Y"; if you are real photo lover, I suggest you a a 4 day round-flight tour or a 5 days coach tour to this breamland.
In the evening, you can enjoy the local Tibetan performance (self pay).
Day03: Jiuzhaigou to Chuanzhusi to Chengdu by air ----- B/ ------------ 3* Hotel
At 0900AM, leave Jiuzhaigou and send to Chuanzhusi airport for your flight back to Chengdu. The drive from Jiuzhaigou to Chuanzhusi is about 95 kilometers, it is an upwinding zigzag road and requires 2 more hours to get to airport.
Day04: Chengdu to Leshan to Mt. Emei ---- B/L/D ----- 3* Hotel
In the morning, at 0830AM, start driving 130 kilometers (about 2 hours) to Leshan. Leshan is famous for its big Buddha statue; This statue is seated at the conjunction point where three rrivers crash together: the Minjiang River, Dadu river and the Qingyi river; by recording, the huge buddha is built in 713 by a monk named Haitong, who found that the turbulent river had sunk and drowned many people who tried to cross the river, in order to tame the river and harness the river, he called on local surport and built this 71-meter Buddha statue. Besides the visit to Big Buddha, you will visit Lingyunn temple and Wuyou temple, both are in minutes walk to the Buddha.
In mid afternoon, drive another 30 kilometers to Baoguo temple, a famous Buddhist temple at the foot of Mt. Emei, stay overnight there and listen to the peaceful drum and bell sounding in the evening.
Day05: Mt. Emei to Chendu -------- B/L/D ------- 3* Hotel
At 0830AM, start the tour to visit half mountain of Mt. Emei (instead of going to summit).
Today we will visit Wanian temple (originally built in 980 A.D.), Qingyinge Pavillion, Monkey area and Yixiantian (a narrow part between two huge steep mountains; looking up, the sky seems to be a line, hence the name). in mid afternoon, drive back to Chengdu downtown area. dinner will be typically local Sichuan foods.