Daocheng, or Yading, is often known as Daocheng Yading by global visitors. With an average altitude over 4000 meters, Daocheng Yading is located in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, on the southwest side of China’s Sichuan Province, about 683 kilometers away from Chengdu - the capital of Sichuan. Honored as the Last Shangri-La, the “Last Pure Land on Earth” and the “Holy Land in the Sun”, Daocheng Yading is characterized by snow-covered mountains, vast green meadows, crystal clear rivers, glacier-fed lakes and dense forests. The most highlight parts of your visit is definitely Yading Nature Reserve, 128 kilometers south from Daocheng, where three holy mountains - Chenrezig (6032 meters), Jambayang (5958 meters), and Chana Dorje (5958 meters) are situated. Come and purify your soul on this earthy paradise of mystery and harmony!
How to Plan Your Daocheng Yading Tour?
Most travelers would like to spend 2 or 3 days in Daocheng Yading. It needs 1-2 days to fully explore in Yading Nature Reserve to enjoy three sacred peaks, Pearl Lake, Milk Lake, Five-color Lake, Luorong Pasture and Chonggu Monastery - some of the most stunning landscapes you’ll ever see. On the way between Daocheng and Yading Village, indulge yourselves in the different breathtaking scenery, red meadow, hundreds of thousands of hectares of green polar forest...which is a bestowing of nature.
Usually, Chengdu is served as the most popular gateway city to Daocheng Yading that you can reach either by air or driving. If your time permits with 6-8 days, you can add Mount Siguniang, Danba, Kangding, Xinduqiao and other awesome destinations into your trip. Traveling beyond Daocheng and Sichuan, you can visit Yunnan, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu and more places for a long discovery. If you have any ideas, please feel free to customize the tour with China Discovery!
Transfer from Chengdu Plain to alpine Daocheng Yading to achieve all your imagination of the “Last Pure Land on Our Blue Planet” in the most classic way to embrace the fabulous scenery of "Last Shangri-La"!
Highlights: Yading Nature Reserve, Three Holy Mountains (Chenresig, Jambeyang and Chanadorje), Luorong Pasture, Pearl Lake
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Take this 4-day tour to explore Daocheng Yading, the “Soul of Shangri-La” as the famous paradise on earth in a challenging but worthy way with 2 memorable days hiking in Yading Nature Reserve!
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This photography tour is best to shoot the "Last Pure Land on Earth" - Daocheng Yading favored by shutterbugs and record all its fabulous holy snow peaks, alpine lakes, grassland, temples, and more landscapes!
Highlights: Yading Nature Reserve, Three Holy Mountains, Luorong Pasture, Milk Lake, Five Color Lake, Chonggu Monastery, Sangdui Red Grassland, Poplar Forest
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Chengdu / Dujiangyan / Siguniangshan / Chengdu
Mount Siguniang, located in Xiaojin County of Sichuan Province, is only about 220km’s driving from Chengdu. So we specially designed this tour for you to travel conveniently from Chengdu to Mount Siguniang, and spend two full days to hike two most featured and beautiful valleys – Changping and Haizi. It is suitable for most people.
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Chengdu / Leshan / Emei / Chengdu / Jiuzhaigou
This is the best tour of Sichuan's BESTS, strongly recommended for the first-timers, best deal for normal travelers, families with kids, seniors and couples. Stunning scenery, treasured culture, turbulent history - the land of Sichuan has the perfect set of ingredients such as Giant Pandas, gastronomy city, Jiuzhaigou splendors, Leshan Giant Buddha & Mount Emei, and this Sichuan Discovery tour is the recipe that brings them all together with more than a dash of comfort. At the same time, it is a trip of heritage. There are 4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites awaiting your exploring - Jiuzhaigou Valley, Huanglong Valley, Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei, which bring you cultural comfort, natural visual feast and experience of diversity.
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Chengdu / Dujiangyan / Mount Siguniang / Danba / Tagong / Xinduqiao / Hailuogou / Chengdu
Chengdu / Mount Siguniang / Danba / Tagong / Xinduqiao / Leshan / Emei / Chengdu
This 8-day itinerary is the best combo for you to savor the wonderful diversity of scenery and culture essences in vast Sichuan. You will not only have great fun in Western Sichuan to explore the beautiful alpine sightseeing of lakes, mountains, valleys, grassland, villages, Tibetan monasteries, etc. at Mount Siguniang, Danba, Xinduqiao, Tagong, etc. by car driving, but also, make a worthy visit to the UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage splendors at Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Emei to see the quite different Sichuan basin natural views from down to top and enjoy the Chinese Buddhist culture with sacred visit to different temple sites and the must-go Golden Summit with relaxing hiking and cruising experience!
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Chengdu / Wolong / Mount Siguniang / Danba / Tagong / Xinduqiao / Kangding / Chengdu
This tour takes you to discover all top beautiful destinations in Western Sichuan in their best beautiful period, including Mount Siguniang National Park, Xinduqiao, Danba, Tagong, Kangding, etc.! You will not only see the colorful forests, meadows and lakes with far admiration of the holy Sichuan mountain “queen”, but also enjoy a nice morning to take famous photos of Xinduqiao’s idyllic rural landscape matching postcards. Besides, you will walk at enchanting Jiaju Suopo villages to have the impressive panorama of hundreds of white houses and ancient towers appearing in the colorful forests mountain. Moreover, you will spend relaxing hours on the enormous grassland, stunning alpine lakes, etc., appreciate top snow peaks, close up to precious giant pandas in the captive base, and so on to impress you an unforgettable memory of the core Western Sichuan dyed into golden yellow and more brilliant Autumn colors!
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Chengdu / Siguniangshan / Jinchuan / Danba / Tagong / Xinduqiao / Leshan / Chengdu
Spring is the ideal time to visit China! What are your favored destinations to catch the beauty in SPRING? What is your style to fully feel the vitality of spring? Sichuan Province, praised as the Land of Abundance, is no doubt one of the best regions with many stunning destinations to be visited in spring. So we’ve specially designed Sichuan Spring tour making you catch the best of spring in Sichuan! This 8-day tour takes you get into the most beautiful village in China with pear flowers blooming all over the Tibetan-styled village, as well attend the Jinchuan Snow Pear Festival to immerse into the sea of flowers, and of course, you won’t miss the special experience with Jiayang Steam Train to travel through golden rape flowers before marveling at the largest stone Buddha in the world.
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Chengdu / Huanglong / Jiuzhaigou / Chengdu
With the help of our 6 Days Chengdu Jiuzhaigou Tour, you will take a flight to Jiuzhaigou to immerse yourself in the extraordinary waterscapes, then fly back to Chengdu to visit the Giant Pandas and other city landmarks in Chengdu before departure. It is a trip of roaming in different time and space as the plane take you fly from the vibrant modern metropolis of Chengdu to the mysterious world of water in hidden valleys of Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong on soaring Mingshan Mountains.
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