Gambol at Ice and Snow Paradise with Chengdu Leisure Walk
Want to spend a joyful winter holiday with snow fun in the warm southern China? Take this 4-day Chengdu & Xiling Snow Mountain Winter tour to enjoy Xiling snow fun and its best gateway city - Chengdu in one go in the most classic way! You will spend 2 days at the popular Xiling Snow Mountain covered with very thick shimmering snow to be the large-scaled alpine ski resort in south part of the entire country, and get fully stretched with the cool skiing and diverse entertaining sports on ice and snow with abundant joy and laughter. Besides, you will enjoy 1 full day in Chengdu, the national well-known “Leisure City” to feel its real laidback life style of local citizens with classic appreciation of the top must-sees before your flying home! Let’s spend a different and happy winter vacation in 2020/2021!
Highlights of this tour
On this day, your guide and driver will pick you up at the airport/train station or your hotel in Chengdu. And then, drive about 2 hours to Xiling Snow Mountain that is reputed as the Oriental Alps with pleasant natural view. Besides, boasting Xiling Ski Resort (altitude: 2,200 meters) of 7 square kilometers wide to be the largest alpine ski resort in whole Southern and Western China region, Xiling Snow Mountain is also the venue to hold the annual “Southland International Ice & Snow Festival” in every winter.
After getting the foot of Xiling Snow Mountain, take the cable car (about 10 minutes) up and the bus (about 10 minutes) to Xiling Ski Resort to have best fun in the pure white snow wonderland. Take the spotlight to enjoy skiing hours on the 2,200 meter high level covered in pure white and feel the excitement of the fast and the furious on ice and snow! Besides, you can choose more activities to play to the most to warm your winter holiday, such as the wilder Snow ATV and snowmobile to show more manful power, sledging to enjoy snow in a classic and leisure way, exciting and joyous snow cubing, bounce-flying to feel flying in the air, hot air balloon, etc.
Snow ATV/Snowmobiling: Ride the cool ATV/motorcycles to gallop on the soft white snow. Leave the clear trace rolled by the big tire behind to fully show the powerful charm of men.
Snow Tubing: The favored activities for family and groups to show your team spirit and laugh out loud together. Sit on the tube facing the blue sky and slide along the professional and safe snow trail to feel the thrilling sliding from the peak to the lower location freely.
After the exciting play, your guide will accompany you to the hotel on Xiling Snow Mountain and help you check in. Have a good rest!
(Note: all sports on ice and snow like skiing, Snow ATV, snowmobile, sledging, snow cubing, bounce-flying, hot air balloon, and so forth need extra but reasonable payment.)
Wearing Tips: thick clothes like down jackets, sweaters, thick trousers, scarves, hats, gloves, etc. are recommended to keep warm. Sunglasses, sunblock, moisturizer, etc. are suggested to protect your eyes and skin!
After breakfast, you can continue to enjoy the exciting skiing and other activities on ice and snow at Xiling Ski Resort to fully release your enthusiastic love to life and nature. Then take the sightseeing Cable Car (about 40 minutes) up to Riyueping (Sun and Moon Platform) (Altitude: 3,260 meters) for more natural appreciation. You will feel come from the earth to the paradise as you ascend there since charming sea of clouds shows there frequently. You can just stand quietly in front of the surrounding primitive forest or walk along the wood plank road to admire the soft clouds rolling near and far under the very clear blue sky like a mysterious piece of ocean that sometime submerges the summit of those lower mountains. Inhale the fresh and cool air here and think about where you are at this second! Besides, in some great sunny days, you will have a fabulous chance to see Mount Emei and Daxuetang Snow Peak far away.
After the visiting, take the cable car to come down. And then your guide and driver will escorted you back to your hotel in Chengdu. Have a good sleep!
This morning you will make a stirring visit to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding which is not only the most important panda scientific research center, but also dwelling home for more than 100 Giant Pandas. Walk at leisure through the bamboo framed paths, and closely observe giant pandas of different ages eating bamboos, playing with each other, tumbling, climbing trees, etc. Don’t miss the chance to watch female pandas nursing their cubs in the nursery rooms. There is also a very informative Panda Museum for you to learn more scientific facts about Giant Pandas.
Following the pandas, you will be taken to a hidden spiritual Buddhist temple in the hustling downtown of Chengdu - Wenshu Temple. Marvel at the exquisite Buddhist architecture, soak in the reverent atmosphere, and wander on the peaceful paths.
Chengdu is famous for its relaxing and leisure pace throughout China, which will be proved after a stay in People's Park. Sit down, order a pot of Chinese tea, make a casual chat with your friends and watching locals indulging themselves in different kinds of folk entertainment – napping in a lively teahouse, playing mahjong, disco dancing, neck massage, ear cleaning… Next is an impressive trip to the famous Jinli Old Street. Time steals away from you quietly while walking on the lively streets which are full of delicious local snacks, delicate artifacts, interesting folk shows, etc.
At the end, your guide and driver will escort you to your hotel.
Your guide will pick you up from the hotel to the airport/train station in time for the scheduled flight or train to your next destination. Before that, you can take a rest at the hotel or go for a walk nearby.
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Do not Miss out Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei in your Chengdu tour. They are only about 2 hours’ driving away from Chengdu downtown, and about 30mins’ driving from each other. As two World Heritage Sites of both nature and culture, Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei give you a chance to experience the long history and tradition of Chinese Buddhism, also enjoy some fascinating landscapes, including by far the tallest and biggest pre-modern Buddha statue in the world, wondrous mountain scenery, sea of clouds and magnificent sunset and sunrise (if you want to spend one night on the mountain), etc. A boat trip to see the panoramic view of the Giant Buddha is available in Leshan.
Generally speaking, you only need 2 days to visit both Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei together, usually traveling from Chengdu to visit the Giant Buddha first for a day, then visit the mountain and return to Chengdu in another day.
There is an old saying that "once you visited Jiuzhaigou, there is no need for you to see any other waterscape". Jiuzhaigou and its neighbor Huanglong grant you a memorable experience of nature wonder of wondrous water world, as the words say.
You will take a 45-minute flight from Chengdu directly to Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport in the early morning. In the afternoon, you’ll go to Huanglong National Park, where densely scatters thousands of travertine color-ponds and flow streams. You’ll marvel at Huanglong Temple and fabulous Five-Color Ponds. In the second day, you will visit three beautiful valleys in Jiuzhaigou National Park. The third day is for you to depart from Jiuzhaigou to Chengdu or other destinations.
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