Chengdu Highlights: Full Day City Orientation Tour with Foodie Experience

Chengdu Highlights: Full Day City Orientation Tour with Foodie Experience

On this city Orientation walking tour, we will take you to experience the most popular highlights of the city, starting from exploring Chengdu's poetic quality in Huanhuaxi park and spiritual life in Bronze Goat Taoist Temple. On the rest of the day, you’ll walk all the way to People’s Park to stroll around and enjoy the laid-back life like locals, to Wenshuyuan Monastery area to eat like a foodie, and to wind up your day by indulging yourself in the most popular River Bridge Bar to taste Chengdu’s nightlife.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Huan Huaxi Park, No.9 Qinghua Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu 610072 China

We start the day by hearing birds singing in Huanhuaxi Park, from where we stroll all the way along Funan River, past Dufu’s Thatched Cottage and to an antique market. In there, you may get dazzled by the fakes and genuine ones.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Qingyang Palace (Green Ram Temple), Sec.2 Western First circle Street, Qingyang District, Chengdu 610072 China

Our second stop before lunch is Qingyang Gong (Bronze Goat Taoist temple), which is an unexpectedly quiet and peaceful temple in spite of a location in the busy noisy center of Chengdu. For lunch, we will continue to walk through a park and along Funan River to finally reach one of the most popular noodle restaurants among the locals and try its specialty literally named “the noodles with the strangest taste”.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Kuanzhai Alley, East of Tongren Road, west of Changshun Street, Qingyang District, Chengdu 610015 China

In the afternoon, after visiting Kuanzhai Alleys, a perfect combination of modernism and tradition, here you may have a coffee stop in the Starbucks Coffee Shop.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Chengdu Renmin Park, No.12 Shaocheng Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu 610015 China

we will arrive at People’s Park to experience the locals' laid-back lifestyle. There is an open-air tea house of over 100 years’ history. It is the place where we will spend about 40 minutes doing nothing but drinking tea, eating sunflower seeds, watching people get their ears picked or hearing outdoor karaoke by the seniors.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Wenshu Yuan Monastery, No.66 Wenshuyuan Street, Qingyang District, Chengdu 610017 China

The third stop in the afternoon is Wenshuyuan Monastery, which is not only a religious place to learn about Buddhism, but also serves as a living quarter for the locals. Inside the traditional Chinese old-style buildings, we can find elegant tea houses, local snack restaurants, stylish cafés and even luxury hotels. Then there comes the real foodie moment. We can stop stand by stand for an amazing bite of Guo Kui (crusty pancakes with pork or beef filling), baked egg cake, or hot bean jelly etc..

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Anshun Bridge (Dongmen Bridge), 66 Binjiang E Rd Jinjiang Qu, Chengdu 610061 China

Our last stop of the day is the place where two rivers meet in the city. There is a popular River Bridge Bar on the over-600-year-old Anshun bridge which was one of the four bridges mentioned in “The Travels of Marco Polo”. The best way to wind up the day is to order a beer or Majito to relax every cell of your body under the night sky of Chengdu, isn’t it?

Duration: 2 hours