Tour Description

Overview:
The World Tourism Organization Executive Director Zoltan Somogy said that the fame of panda and the flavor of Sichuan cuisine are two treasures of Sichuan. This tour contains these two treasures of Sichuan, so that your the journey has not been made in vain.Discover some little secrets of the cute panda through the explanation of the guide.Taste unlimited Sichuan authentic local snacks in Sichuan Cuisine Museum and learn the over 3000-year-old history of Sichuan cuisine.Join us,let's experience the charm of panda and Sichuan cuisine together.

Tour Details:
Meet your friendly English-speaking guide at your hotel lobby and you’ll head to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center, a non-profit research and breeding facility for giant pandas and other rare animals. On a 

guided tour, visit different sections of the center to get a full overview of a panda’s development, from a baby panda to the full-grown giant panda. Visit the baby garden, where you can see giant panda cubs, which weigh only about 3.5 ounces (100 grams) at birth and by the third month are able to walk on their own. Then stop at the sub-adult garden, where the adolescent pandas hang out, and see the adult garden, which houses the giant pandas in all their full-grown glory. Take pictures of this endangered species eating bamboo, sleeping or frolicking about. Finally, try to spot the sleeping red pandas stretched out on branches in the red panda garden.

After seeing the cutest animal in the world,you are going to Sichuan Cuisine Museum which is the only "eatable museum" in the world.You can not only taste unlimited authentic local snacks but also learn Sichuan cuisine culture there.Thousands of antique collections tell an over 3000 years old history about Sichuan food origin.Try to use traditional raw material.After visiting this museum,you can learn more about Sichuan cuisine.If your interest in Sichuan cuisine goes beyond eating, you can choose to upgrade the Sichuan cuisine cooking course.Under the guidance of senior chefs, you change into chef uniforms and start a cooking class to cook three typical Sichuan dishes, getting sensational experience from firing in the wok, quick stir frying to marvelous presentation. Then the executive chef will give comments on students’ outcomes and award them with “rookie master chef ” certificate.

What's Included:
• Entry/Admission— Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base
• Entry/Admission— Sichuan Cuisine Museum
• Professional English speaking guide
• Hotel pick-up and pick-off
• Private comfortable air-conditioned vehicle
• Unlimited authentic local snacks in Sichuan Cuisine Museum
• Learn to cook three Sichuan dishes(if option selected)

What's Excluded:
• Gratuities

Policy:
•  Book at least 15 hours in advance
•  For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience