Your English-speaking guide will pick you up at your hotel at around 8:00am (or your convenient time) and excurse to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, about 10 km far from downtown of Chengdu.

The center has kept more than 20 cute giant pandas as well as some other rare and endangered wild animals, like lesser pandas, black-necked crane and white storks, etc. Here you will have the chance to see how giant pandas get fed and take photos of these living fur balls for your later travel reference. A short film about the panda mating habits and the museum exhibitions concerning the panda history, today and future can enable you to further know about this adorable mammal.

In the afternoon, you will visit other local highlights--Wuhou Temple, Wenshu Temple, Jinsha Site Museum.

Wuhou Temple was built to commemorate Zhuge Liang, the minister of the Shu Kingdom 2,000 years ago. You will get to know the historic relic site and culture of Three Kingdom here.

Wenshu Temple, located in northwest of Chengdu, will feast your eyes with rare and precious cultural relics and thousands of Buddhism sculptures. Meanwhile, you can also sip the noted bowl tea of Chengdu in the tea house and enjoy the leisure time in the park.

Jinsha Site Museum offers tourists a chance to know about the age-old kingdom culture. Here you will see various functional and decorative items of relics dating from 1200-600BC from pottery and tools to ivory, jade artifacts stone carvings and ornate gold masks. Meanwhile, you will get to know the ancient sacrificing rite and their life style from the exhibits as well.

Out of the Jinsha Site Museum, you can choose to return to your hotel, or get off at your desired spot in the city center or go to see the noted Sichuan opera face changing to marvel at how many different masks the performer can change in the twinkling of an eye.