Chengdu Tours, Tickets, & Activities

Chengdu’s most famous residents aren’t human, they’re pandas. With this private tour, enjoy a customized day interacting with these black and white bears at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Design your own experience with options to help a panda keeper in their daily tasks, snap photos of the pandas under staff supervision, or simply observe red and giant pandas in their enclosures.

Spend a day expanding your food knowledge and tasting delicious Chengdu cuisine on this exciting foodie experience. You’ll explore a local spice market with a guide to navigate, so you won’t have to worry about getting lost. Learn about local ingredients, and then visit a Sichuan courtyard restaurant for a cooking class. A professional chef will teach you how to make multiple dishes, and at the end of your class, you can eat the dishes you’ve prepared with beverages included too.

Spend a morning with some of China’s most famous residents at the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center or the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center from Chengdu. Led by a professional panda keeper, meander through the facilities and observe the pandas while you learn about their breeding and life stages. Also, you'll have the opportunity to visit the Red Panda area to learn more about this quiet yet territorial mammal.

Animal lovers—this is an great choice for a close encounter with wildlife. Spend a day learning what it takes to be a panda keeper. It’ll give you access to experiences you wouldn’t get with standard admission, such as seeing baby pandas up close, preparing panda food, feeding pandas by hand, cleaning enclosures, and learning about panda behavior, and special research projects.

Visit the UNESCO-listed Leshan Giant Buddha and learn about China’s rich tea making history during this full-day tour. After admiring the massive Buddha statue, visit a local village to learn about the art and history of tea making. Walk through the fields, learn how to harvest, and about the different tea regions. End the tour with a tasting of various regional teas and sit down to a delicious local lunch.

Uncover the secrets behind delectable Chinese cuisine on a 4-hour cooking class in Chengdu. Under the guidance of a professional chef, learn the techniques required to cook sumptuous Sichuan meals; make delicious delicacies like Kung Pao chicken and soft steamed dumplings while gaining insight into the complex flavors of Sichuan food. After cooking up a storm in the kitchen, sit down to feast upon the fruits of your labor with your fellow food lovers. Return home with recipe cards to impress friends and family with your new found knowledge.

This majestic Mt. Emei tour is an ideal way to spend a day appreciating China’s outdoor beauty. You’ll save time booking transport by having hotel pickup and drop-off included. Travel in a private vehicle to Mt. Emei with a guide to enrich your experience. Once you’ve got to the scenic mountain area, you’ll visit Wannian Temple, and conveniently entrance tickets are included. Spend roughly two hours hiking and exploring stunning outdoor sites with a guide to lead the way, so you won’t get lost.

Get up close to giant pandas during a private tour of the Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center from Chengdu. Volunteer alongside dedicated animal keepers to record behavior, clean enclosures and prepare food for the adorable mammals. Ensure the endangered species continue to prosper in the wild and in enclosures with your valued support and gain fascinating insight into the behavior and physiology of the animals. Capture photgraphs with the pandas to immortalize you memories (own expense) and enjoy a traditional Chinese lunch and convenient round-trip transportation on this tour.

Learn how to make Sichuan-style mapo tofu, a popular Chinese dish, during a cooking class in Chengdu. You’ll start with a visit to a spice market to see all the different ingredients that can be used in Chinese cuisine, and then head to the cooking location for tea and your lesson with a professional chef. Finally, sit down to enjoy your mapo tofu along with beer or other beverage. Booking in advance ensures you won’t risk a sold-out activity.

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Visit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a unique and ecologically sensitive research center focused on conservation. Observe giant pandas (and other rare and endangered native animals) in “Panda Valley,” which features brooks, wild bamboo forests, woods, man-made dens, rocks, plant pits, caves and other features that emulate the pandas’ natural environment.

During this 4-5 hours unique Chinese bun (Bao Zi) making workshop, you’ll be taken into an authentic local spice market to explore it with fun challenges to complete and learn different species of Sichuan spices and ingredients that will be used in the following cooking class. The class will be carried out in a traditional Sichuan style courtyard. You’ll be treated with Sichuan local tea as it’s local’s custom to treat friends and visitors. After that, you then will be guide to start the cooking process by a professional chef in a cozy kitchen. Finally, you can enjoy the Bao Zi, a kind of famous traditional steamed bun with filling, made by yourself along with some beers or beverages. For it’s really informative, interesting and fun, this class will be an unforgettable experience in your lifetime.

Focus on Sichuan cooking during this culinary tour in Chengdu. With a guide in the lead, you’ll visit some of the city’s back alleys to find the best street food in places you might not find on your own. Then meet a local chef for a cooking class where you’ll learn some traditional Sichuan dishes. Sit down with your small group of 15 to feast on the dishes, chatting to the chef about China’s culinary culture.

Experience the mesmerizing melodies and intense action of the Sichuan Opera during a performance in Chengdu’s Shufenf Yayun Teahouse. Marvel at dazzling dancers and astounding acrobats as they deliver an extravagant spectacle of color and culture. Upgrade to enjoy unrivalled stage views from luxurious seats and pleasure your palate with snacks to accompany a Sichuan tea. For the ultimate experience, opt for ear grooming, a Chinese massage and a show costume dress up session that comes with a complimentary photograph.

Enjoy a full-day guided tour from Chengdu that combines giant panda bears with the Leshan Buddha and Wuyou Temple. Get great photo ops of China’s furry ambassadors at the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base while watching the adorable pandas. Then savor a lunch that features Xiba tofu (bean curd), a regional specialty. Afterward, take a scenic drive to Leshan to see the Grand Buddha, the largest stone Buddha sculpture in the world. You also stop at Wuyou Temple and can choose an optional river cruise (own expense).

Leshan Giant Buddha’s location outside of Chengdu can make it tricky to get to by public transport. Avoid the hassle of working out local transport schedules, and get there in a quick and efficient way—on an organized day tour. Conveniently, hotel pickup and drop-off are included, and the transfers are private too.

Discover a land of rugged mountains, glittering lakes, and rural villages on this private 4-day tour of the UNESCO-listed Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong valleys from Chengdu. Ride a hop-on hop-off bus through Jiuzhaigou National Park, stopping to take in the views over Zeru Valley, and snap photos of the Five-Coloured Pool and Nuorilang Waterfalls. Then soar to the highest peak of Huanglong National Park on a thrilling cable car ride, and hike to landmarks like the Huanglong Temple and Golden Sand. This all-inclusive tour includes accommodation, all meals, and hotel and airport transfers.

Volunteer numbers at the Dujiangyan Panda Base are strictly limited. So book ahead for a hands-on experience that will stay with you (and your family) for a lifetime. Spend the morning up close and personal with giant pandas—including feeding them. After a restaurant lunch, explore the Dujiangyan Irrigation System—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—and Dujiangyan old town with your private guide. This is a door-to-door tour.

Prepare Dan Dan noodles like a pro with this half-day cooking workshop. After a convenient hotel pickup, travel with a guide to shop for spices at a local market. Then, head to a professional kitchen, where you’ll sip Jasmine tea and learn the secret sauce of Dan Dan noodles from an experienced chef. Savor your expertly-prepared meal and enjoy a complimentary beer before being returned to your hotel.

Set out in the evening with an expert guide and your own tuk-tuk driver to find the best dinner dishes in Chengdu on this tour. Explore pedestrian alleyways, hidden parks, and small temples where you visit favorite local eateries. Experience Chengdu's cuisine and culture by eating at the same places that local people do.

Taichi is a Chinese martial art practiced all over the world as a form of exercise and meditation, and this private class will give you the basics you need to practice taichi back home and reap its benefits. During your roughly 90 minute lesson, relax and get in touch with your own movements – the flow of your body in space – as you learn how to perform a range of taichi gestures with your private tutor.

You will take the high speed train to visit the World Natural and Cultural heritage-Emei Buddhist mountain and Leshan Grand Buddhist which listed by UNESCO in 1996. Leshan Giant Buddha, the largest stone sculpture of Buddha in the world, sits at the confluence of the Minjiang river, Dadu river and Qingyi river.It has been very well preserved during the past 1,207 years. Emeishan(the Beauty Brow Mountain) is one of the four holy Buddhist mountains .It enjoys a worldwide fame as the most beautiful Buddhist mountain in China. Historical monasteries hidden in the mountains, rare plant species and a lot of wild creatures make this mountain well known not only for its Buddhist culture but also the attractive natural scenery. Note: All the prices are valid the whole year except for the public holidays or big events in China, such as the National Day holiday from Oct.1 to Oct.7, the spring festival, May day holiday from May.1 to May. 3 etc.

Let's meet at the People's Park Metro Stop(Line 1), we will go to a great coffee to have coffee or tea, and learn the commonly used Tourism Chinese. It doesn't matter that you can't speak Chinese at all. After an hour's class, everyone will have the confidence to speak Chinese. First of all, we practice introducing ourselves in Chinese. Then I introduce some Chinese greetings, such as " 不好意思(excuse me)" "谢谢(thank you)".Then we practice more about how to order food or how to take a taxi and more. After about 1 hour to 1.5 hours of Chinese class, we will go out and eat a small Gourmet Tour! Let's go to the nearby Local wet market first, and then take a look at the scenic spots near the park. For example, People's park, 'Heming' Tea House, Dating corners, etc. At last, we will go to a great local dinner restaurant, you will have a real test here to order the food with all the Chinese you learned (You don't need to pay, it is included)

The Dujiangyan Panda Base runs a panda hospital, lab, and monitoring enclosures in Sichuan Province near Chengdu. On this flexible day trip, you can choose to participate in the panda volunteer program, helping to clean the enclosure and feed the endangered animals. An English-speaking guide accompanies you during your experience and helps take photos and videos of your volunteer experience.