Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (Xiongmao Jidi)

We pick up from the hotel and brings you to the adorable pandas, and more! Pandas are more than good-looking and cute, they are special! Join us to find out a full story of how do they live, why are they here and even funny things about these precious neighbors and treasure of human being!

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After lunch, we drive to visit the backstage of Sichuan opera tea house. In the grass-root style opera house, lots of old fans here every day, meet up friends and enjoy the show. We can be one of them, watching the performance and drinking tea. But the most interesting part of this tour, you have the chance to go into their backstage to see how the actor actress make up and chanting with them.

Visit the famous Antiques Market in the southwest area. this is the best way you can deep touch the local culture.

Chengdu Renmin Park

On the way to the people’s park, you will have a chance to try your luck with the local. Just relax and enjoy tea and learn more about tea culture. Also, there is a chance to learn and play Mahjong - one of the most popular games in Chengdu !!

Leshan Giant Buddha (Da Fo)

After leaving from your hotel a 2.5 hours drive takes us to Giant Buddha. We would take the boat trip to have an unforgettable panoramic view of Buddha.

Leshan

After visiting Buddha，there will be 40 mins drive to a laid-back old town. Take a walk around the town where traditional lifestyles still survived from the modernization. Along the way we visit traditional workshops such as blacksmith’s shop, bamboo workshop, barbershop, etc. Enjoy tea and chat and share stories with lovely local people in an old teahouse and later drop in one of the hundred-year-old courtyard houses where it’s owner are so proud of and love to share stories of the house. also we shall have such great local lunch here.

Jiajiang County

A short drive takes us up to the mountain. The tea farmer will take us to the tea field, where we will learn a lot about tea from how to pick-up the best tea sprouts or tea buds, to weather conditions and different regions for Tea. Have a try of picking tea from the tea trees! Afterward visiting the tea business family to reveal the process of making all kinds of tea, let’s sit down in front of the farmhouse and enjoy tea – more stories sharing and learning of tea, as in of wine there are Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir in tea as well! Remember to bring the tea you picked from the farm. And we should use them in the next cooking class day.

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Meet up your guide at the hotel lobby, and then your guide will take you to explore the dazzling local spice market with the assigned challenge for you to obtain some special ingredients and spices which will be used in the cooking class afterward. After the fun experience in the local spice market, you will take a walk through the back streets to get some real local food for Lunch.

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After lunch, we will head into a hidden gem - a traditional Sichuan courtyard restaurant where soon the ingredients and spices you collected from the market will be put in use. Another break will be taken place in the courtyard with Sichuan Gaiwan tea as the traditional custom to entertain guests.

Chilli Cool's Kitchen

After learning Sichuan tea culture, the food preparations will be guided by the professional chef. Follow your chef 's instructions step by step to process food until it gets well done. 1 Tea dish and 2 other famous local dishes class will be cooked by your own Duration: 3 hours