Top Chengdu Layover Tours

Chengdu’s most famous residents aren’t human, they’re pandas. With this private tour, enjoy a customized day interacting with these black and white bears at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Design your own experience with options to help a panda keeper in their daily tasks, snap photos of the pandas under staff supervision, or simply observe red and giant pandas in their enclosures.

Your guide will meet you at your Airport Exit or your hotel lobby and it will be about 1-hour drive from Chengdu Shuangliu international airport to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, a beautiful park, where you can see some Giant pandas, red pandas and even baby pandas in the Panda Nursery. After the panda base visit, you will be lucky to have a local spicy hotpot for lunch if you choose the hotpot lunch option. Hotpot is the most likable food in Chengdu. Dipping different types of meat, vegetables, and specialties into the hot broth, you'll be definitely satisfied with it. Your leader will order the half spicy and half not spicy pot for you to maximize your taste for different flavors. Beers, water or other beverages are offered throughout the tour. After the whole trip, you will be dropped off at your starting point.

Visit highlights of Chengdu including the Chendgu Panda Base, City central sightseeing and Round Chengdu airport transfers with this private layover day tour from Chengdu airport(CTU) You will be picked up from and dropped off from Chengdu airport.

If you’re limited on time in China then look no further than this private 2-day tour of Chengdu and Xian, ideal for travelers wanting to maximize their sightseeing experience. See a balanced mix of nature and culture as you tick off Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Wuhou Memorial Temple, and Jinli Ancient Street in Chengdu, and visit Xian City Wall (Chengqiang) and the UNESCO-listed Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Xian. Entrance fees and hotel pickup and drop-off are included. Please note, accommodation is not included.

Chengdu is a relaxing city , to see pandas and the city in one day you get to know the real Chengdu life

Visit highlights of Chengdu including the Leshan Giant buddha and Round Chengdu airport transfers with this private layover day tour from Chengdu airport(CTU) You will be picked up from and dropped off from Chengdu airport.

In the morning our driver and guide will pick you up at your hotel. You will drive about 40 minutes to Chengdu Panda Base. We spend whole morning walking around this area to see different pandas playing in the enclosures or on the trees. In the afternoon our city walk tour puts a number of local tourist attractions and gardens on your list, it will show you the contrast between modern and ancient traditions as well as experiencing the laid-back life like the locals, and have a taste of what the city presents.  We start the walk from Huanhuaxi Park, past Dufu’s Thatched Cottage and to an antique market. Then enter an elegant tea house where you will be served a pot of Kungfu tea .  Our next stop is Qingyang Gong (Bronze Goat Taoist temple to learn about the philosophy of Taoism. Later after visiting Kuanzhai Alleys and People’s Park to experience the locals' laid-back lifestyle. After visiting, drive back to your hotel, the end of trip.

During your layover in Chengdu International Airport, rather than kill the time in it, you can also get out to kill the boredom by visiting the panda breeding center to see the cutest national treasures of China on a tour designed specifically for visitors with limited time who can enjoy easy transportation directly to the Breeding Center. Your guide will meet you at your Airport Exit and it will be about 1-hour drive from Chengdu Shuangliu international airport to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, a beautiful park, where you can see some Giant pandas, red pandas and even baby pandas in the Panda Nursery. Airport pickup and drop-off service is included to make sure you can got back to airport in time for your flight.

8:00-8:30 Pick up and go to Chengdu Panda Base You will be met by your guide and driver in your hotel, holding the logo of SunriseChina Expeditions and your name sign. 08:30-11:00 Chengdu Panda Base Tour Walk around different enclosures to see the pandas 11:00-15:00 A Taster of Tibet:Tibetan Quarter Visit Wander down Wuhouci Heng Jie, directly opposite Wuhou Temple, and take in the sights: monks wrapped in maroon robes counting beads behind their backs, vendors selling yak butter on the street, and shop after shop of Tibetan Buddhist religious icons, prayer flags and wheels, tapestries, incense, wildly patterned leather boots, and beads of every hue, size and price. 15:00-17:00 Qingyanggong Taoist Temple Tour Visiting the largest Taoist location in Chengdu. 17:00-18:00 Jingli Old Street Tour