Tour Features: Being known as the "mountain city", Chongqing is a beautiful tour destination with long history. You will experience old and modern Chongqing at the same time by this tour. Characteristic attractions for example Dazu Grottoes and People’s Congress Hall will be appreciated.
Day by Day Itinerary:
Day 1: Chongqing (-/ -/ D)
After breakfast in the hotel, you will be picked up and driven to visit the Dazu Grottoes in Dazu County, 167 kilometers from Chongqing, which enjoys the reputation of "the county of rock carving". Dazu Grottoes are of the highest artistic attainment and demonstrate the most exquisite skills with more than 5,000 statues and over 100, 000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs, dating as far back as the Tang dynasty. You will firstly visit the Baodingshan Grotto, 15 kilometers from the northeast of Dazu County, which is the best preserved one with 13 groups of stone carving figures, totaling nearly 10 thousand cliffside figures. It was originally a military camp whose carvings were commissioned by the general in AD 892. In the afternoon, you will be driven back to Chongqing.
Day 2: Chongqing (B/ L/ D)
After breakfast, you will enjoy your city tour in Chongqing from Stilwell Museum which was founded in memory of Joseph W. Stilwell, an American general who contributed a great deal to the Chinese people between 1942 and 1944 as Commander of the US forces and Chiang Kai Shek's Chief of Staff. Following destination is Chongqing Zoo, located in the western suburbs of Chongqing. There are more than 230 kinds of rare wild animals on display in the zoo and the giant pandas are always the focus among all the residents in the zoo. Afterwards, you will move to the People's Congress Hall which was built in 1954 as a conference hall to commemorate Chongqing's important wartime role. It is inspired by Beijing's Temple of Heaven with three tiers of red-pillared eaves beneath a blue canopied roof. Finally you will go to the Free Market, an attractive place where you can see abundant foods and vegetables. After your trip, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
Itinerary: B: Breakfast AB: American Breakfast L: Lunch D: Dinner SD: Special Dinner
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