5-Day Pandas, Ancient Kingdoms & Tea Plantations Tour

Walk with giant pandas in misty mountain sanctuaries, unlock the bronze mysteries of a lost 3,000-year-old kingdom, and roll your own tea leaves on emerald plantation hills. This 5-day journey brings you face-to-face with China's most enchanting legends—where ancient Shu warriors sleep in bronze masks, Sichuan opera masks change in a flicker, and tea trees have stood for a thousand years. From Chengdu's lively ancient alleys to the quiet peaks of Mengding Mountain, every day tastes, sounds, and feels like a living storybook. No crowds, no rush—just you, the pandas, and the timeless soul of Southwest China.

Tour code: LCT-CT-12

Departure: Any day you want

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Flexible time schedule to suit your pace.
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Meals are in quality local restaurants.
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Itinerary Summary

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Dates	Destinations	Itinerary Brief	Meals Included
Day1	Chengdu Arrival	Meet your guide and transfer to your hotel.	no meal
Day2	Chengdu	Visit Sanxingdui Museum, enjoy Face-changing performance, visit Jinli Ancient Street.	B
Day3	Chengdu/Ya'an	Experience tea culture at Niunianping Ecological Tea Plantation and Mengding Mountain.	B
Day4	Ya'an/Chengdu	Explore Bifengxia Panda Base and Pingle Ancient Town. Drive back to Chengdu.	/
Day5	Chengdu departure	Drop off at the airport.	B

Day by Day Itinerary

Day1 Chengdu Arrival

Transfer via: flight - your arrangement

Activities for today: Airport transfer

Welcome to Chengdu, the land of abundance and leisure! Upon arrival, you’ll be greeted at the airport and transferred to your hotel. If time permits, step into the charming Wide and Narrow Lanes (Kuanzhai Alleys) – a delightful maze of Qin
Day2 Chengdu

Activities for today: Sanxingdui Museum, Face-changing performance, Jinli Ancient Street

Your guide and driver will meet you at 8:00 am. A one-hour drive takes you to the legendary Sanxingdui Museum – home to one of China’s most astonishing archaeological discoveries. Marvel at the larger-than-life bronze masks, golden scepters, and eerie yet mesmerizing relics of a lost Shu kingdom civilization.

Return to Chengdu in the afternoon for an unforgettable Face-changing performance – a dazzling Sichuan Opera art where masked dancers change their painted faces in the blink of an eye. As night falls, wander into Jinli Ancient Street, a lantern-lit bazaar of wooden houses, folk crafts, and mouthwatering street food. It feels like a living painting from ancient Shu.

Sanxingdui Museum

Face-changing performance - Chengdu

Jinli Ancient Street
Day3 Chengdu/Ya'an

Activities for today: Niunianping Ecological Tea Plantation, Mengding Mountain

Leave Chengdu at around 7:00 am and drive 1.5 hours (approx. 100 km) to Niunianping Ecological Tea Plantation in Mingshan District, Ya’an. By 9:00 am, you’ll find yourself surrounded by endless rolling hills of emerald tea bushes. Here, you can:

•Wander through the vast tea fields

•Try your hand at plucking and roasting tea leaves

•Visit the Tea Culture Exhibition Hall

Enjoy a local farm-style lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Then, a short 30–40 minute drive brings you to Mengding Mountain – the birthplace of Chinese tea culture. Spend the afternoon exploring sacred sites including:

•Tiangai Temple – a peaceful mountaintop temple

•The Millennial Tea King Tree – over a thousand years old

•Ganlu Spring – a sweet, legendary water source

•Mengding Five Peaks (viewed from a distance) – shaped like a giant lotus flower

After a day of tea-scented serenity, check into your hotel in Ya’an city.

Niunianping Tea Plantation

Mengding Mountain

Royal Tea Garden - Mount Mengding
Day4 Ya'an/Chengdu

Activities for today: Bifengxia Panda Base, Pingle Ancient Town

After breakfast, visit the Bifengxia Panda Base – a natural sanctuary nestled in lush bamboo forests. Unlike crowded city zoos, here you’ll see giant pandas playing, climbing, and napping in a near-wild environment. It’s one of the most heartwarming panda encounters you can have.

In the afternoon, drive back toward Chengdu, stopping at Pingle Ancient Town – a hidden gem of canals, stone bridges, and centuries-old banyan trees. Walk along the cobbled streets, taste fermented tofu and sticky rice cakes, and watch locals play mahjong by the water. You’ll be transferred back to your Chengdu hotel by evening.

Bifengxia Panda Base Ya'an Sichuan

Bifengxia Panda

Pingle Ancient Town
Day5 Chengdu departure

Transfer via: flight - your arrangement

Activities for today: Hotel to airport transfer.

After breakfast, your driver will escort you to the airport for your flight to your next destination. End of service. Safe travels and zai jian – until we meet again!

Price Details

---- Price Includes

Private Transfers:: Between airports / railway station, hotels and scenic spots while sightseeing in the cities specified in the itinerary by the private air conditioned vehicle with driver and English-speaking guide. Separate arrivals and departures will incur extra charges.
Entrance fees:: All entrance fees to scenic spots as listed above in the itinerary. The final arrangement will be determined by local tour guides based on the local circumstances which are beyond the control of LocalChengduTours. ZTG will adhere to the original itinerary as accurately as possible.
Meals:: All meals as specified in the itinerary. “B” stands for western breakfast “L” for Chinese Lunch in local Chinese restaurant. “D” for Chinese dinner in local Chinese restaurant. The quotation is basic on the above normal meals. If you have any special request about meals, like vegetarian, or Indian food etc, please inform us in advance.
Private tour escort for Sightseeing:: Normal sightseeing activities as outlined in the Itinerary will be escorted with English-speaking guide.; The English-speaking guide and driver of each city accompany you throughout the entire tour in that city. They do not fly with you from one city to another.
Accommodation (if include Yangtze Cruiser):: Service based on two adults sharing on one standard twin/double-bed room (cabin); solo travelers or those who want to occupy one twin/double-bed room/cabin of their own are required to pay additional charge of single supplement rate. A single room (cabin) is subject to availability based on prior request at an additional cost; if the recommended hotel is not available, it will be substituted by a similar class one.; All hotels as listed in the above itinerary serve daily western or Chinese breakfast. All rooms are air-conditioned with private facilities unless specified.
Transportation:: All the domestic airfare of economy class with airport tax/ or train ticket(s) as specified in the itinerary.
Service Charge & Government Taxes
Arrangements:: The tour cost includes the planning, handling, operational and communication charges.

---- Price Excludes

Entry or Exit China International Airfare or train tickets, unless other wise noted.
Visa Fees, passport application or renewal fee.
Excess Baggage Charges.
Personal Expenses:: Expenses of a purely personal nature such as excess luggage fees, laundry, drinks, fax, telephone call, optional activities (shows) and meals, beverages...
Meals:: Any meals which are not specified in the itinerary with “B”, “L” or “D”.; Any extra cost caused by changes of natural disasters, fires, weather, governmental and local authority orders, political change, strikes, war, riots, quarantine, custom regulations, damages or injury caused by accident beyond the control of LocalChengduTours and that has incurred due to the tourist action violating the laws.
Gratuities:: Tips to guides, escort, drivers bellman, etc.