7:30 - 10:00, Hotel Pickup and Transfer to Leshan. The driver will wait for you at the hotel lobby (or other specified meeting places) at the appointed time, holding your name sign. After all group members have been collected, you will be transferred to Leshan, approximately 2 hours’ drive from Chengdu. Your group will have a maximum of 10 people. Tour guide will meet and greet all of you at Leshan Port.

10:00 - 11:30, Have a panoramic view of Leshan Giant Buddha by boat. On arrival in Leshan, you will head to the Giant Buddha Park and be dropped off at the boat dock. The tour guide will meet and greet all of you at Leshan Port. You will take a boat ride on the river to see the Buddha from a different perspective. The whole trip will last 15-20 minutes. The boat will take you right up to the Giant Buddha. Don’t forget to take a selfie, smiling along with the Buddha. Standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, the Leshan Giant Buddha is carved into a cliff face over-looking the confluence of the Dadu, Qingyi, and Min Rivers. The 1,200-year-old Giant Buddha holds the record as the largest Buddha sculpture in the world. His ears stretch for 7 meters, his shoulders span 28 meters, and each of his big toes is 8.5 meters long.

11:30 – 14:00: A Walking Tour at A Laid-back Old Town and Taste Local Leshan Food. 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, barber shop etc. Enjoy tea and chat and share stories with lovely local people in old tea house and later drop in one of the hundred-year-old courtyard house where it’s owner are so proud of and love to share stories of the house.

14:00 – 16:20: Tea Plantation Experience. 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 farm house 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! 16:30–18:30: Transfer back to Chengdu.