6 Days Jiuzhaigou Tour with Gateway Chengdu for Singaporeans
Adorable Pandas and Gorgeous Waterscapes
Adorable Pandas and Gorgeous Waterscapes
A combo tour of Panda City Chengdu and fairyland Jiuzhaigou is designed for Singapore travelers keen on adorable animals and gorgeous waterscapes!
After 5 hours of a direct flight, you can start to savor the best essence of Chengdu by seeing adorable giant pandas in Chengdu Panda Base. Don’t miss the chance to observe Buddhist architecture of Wenshu Temple, drink tea in Renmin Park, and feel the present bustle and prosperity when wandering Jinli Old Street. With seamless train travel of 2 hours, Jiuzhaigou Valley will leave you in awe with its crystal-clear lakes, magnificent waterfalls, and lush forests. Ensuring a good rest to acclimate to high altitudes, Huanglong Valley over 3500 meters above sea level awaits your exploration with outstanding travertine lake terraces and snow-capped mountains.
Our private 6 Days Jiuzhaigou Tour with Gateway Chengdu is elaborately arranged to ensure a comfortable itinerary and well acclimation to high altitudes. You can enjoy the best of Chengdu and Jiuzhaigou worry-free accompanied by a professional tour guide and a private vehicle.
High Altitude Notice: this trip includes traveling Huanglong National Park, which is over 3500 meters above the sea level. It may cause high altitude sickness for some travelers. You can take high altitude sickness prevention medicine about 2~3 days before your tour.
Day 1 Fly to Chengdu From Singapore
Chengdu Airport Pick-up
Welcome to Chengdu, the hometown of the Giant Panda. After 4~5 hours flying from Singapore Changi Airport, you will arrive at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport. Your local guide and driver will meet you at the arrival hall and then escort you to your hotel in a private vehicle. The rest of today is yours to relax in the panda city on your own.
Recommended Optional Evening Activities: enjoy a delicious dinner of Sichuan cuisine (or hotpot) at a local restaurant.
Chengdu Tianfu International Airport Pick Up
Day 2 Chengdu (B, L)
Today's highlights: Chengdu Panda Base, Wenshu Temple, Renmin Park, Jinli Old Street
This morning you will make a stirring visit to Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding which is not only the most important panda scientific research center, but also dwelling home to more than 100 Giant Pandas. Walk at leisure through the bamboo framed paths, and closely observe giant pandas of different ages eating bamboos, playing with each other, tumbling, climbing trees, etc. Don't miss the chance to visit the most adorable panda cubs in the panda kindergartens. If you are lucky, you may be able to see the precious panda babies in the nursery rooms. There is also a very informative Panda Museum where you can learn more scientific facts about Giant Pandas.
Leaving the panda center, you will be taken to a hidden spiritual Buddhist temple in the bustling downtown of Chengdu - Wenshu Temple. Marvel at the exquisite Buddhist architecture, soak in the reverent atmosphere, and wander on the peaceful paths. Adjacent to the monastery is a small bazaar (Wenshufang) where you can enjoy a leisure stroll through to experience local market and living style.
Chengdu is famous for its relaxing and leisure pace throughout China, which will be proved after a stay in Renmin Park. Sit down, order a pot of Chinese tea, make a casual chat with your friends and watching locals indulging themselves in different kinds of folk entertainment - napping in a lively teahouse, playing mahjong, disco dancing, neck massage, ear cleaning... Next is an impressive trip to the famous Jinli Old Street. Time steals away from you quietly while walking on the lively streets which are full of delicious local snacks, delicate artifacts, interesting folk shows, etc.
At the end, your guide will escort you to your hotel.
Recommended Optional Evening Activities: 1) enjoy a delicious dinner of Sichuan cuisine (or hotpot) at a local restaurant; 2) watch a wonderful performance of Sichuan Opera which includes folk opera, face changing, fire spitting, rolling lights, and other delightful entertainment (usually performs during 20:00~21:30).
Day 3 Chengdu - Jiuzhaigou (B, L)
A High-speed Train to Jiuzhaigou
After breakfast, your Chengdu guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel and then escort you to the train Station. You will take a high speed train for about 1.5~2 hrs to Huanglong Jiuzhai Station (黄龙九寨站). Upon arrival, you will be greeted by local tour guide and driver who will then transfer you to Jiuzhaigou directly (about 1.5~2 hrs' drive). Check in to your hotel. The rest of the day is free for you to explore the local areas and acclimatize yourself to the air, temperature and altitudes of Jiuzhaigou.
Day 4 Jiuzhaigou (B)
Today's highlights: Jiuzhaigou's three valleys - Shuzheng Valley, Zechawa Valley and Rize Valley
After breakfast at your hotel, set out for the full-day exploration of Jiuzhaigou National Park. Your guide will accompany you to hop on a sightseeing bus to enter the park to explore the fairyland landscape of Jiuzhaigou.
Having been hidden as a mysterious home to nine Tibetan villages and never been bothered by outsider until the first discovery in the middle 20th century, Jiuzhaigou is a reserve of superb and diverse natural beauty of which the waterfall and plateau lakes are praised as the most stunning waterscape in the world. According to official records, there are up to 114 turquoise pools and lakes, 47 tranquil springs, 17 groups of waterfalls, 11 rapids and 5 beautiful tufa shoals scattering in the three main valleys of Jiuzhaigou, Rize Valley, Zechawa Valley and Shuzheng Valley. They present various color patterns of white, blue, green, turquoise and emerald in different seasons. The visual feast of Jiuzhaigou also expands from waterscape to spectacular jagged alpine mountains, wild forests with multi-colors and many other remarkable natural features.
Visiting Jiuzhaigou Valley is relaxing and enjoyable. There are sightseeing buses running from the entrance to the three valleys with stops near the scenic spots. Travelers hop off the bus, walk along wooden plank roads to enjoy the sights, then hop on another bus to next attractions. Our tour guide will organize your visit route according to your time, energy and crowd level, and accompany you to explore the essence of Jiuzhaigou at a comfortable pace. The classic visit route is to take tourist bus from the entrance to Nuorilang Water Fall first, then transfer to Zechawa Valley to visit the Long Lake and Five-Color Pond, then move to Rize Valley to visit the Panda Lake, Five Flowers Lake, Pearl Shoal, Mirror Lake, etc. Lastly, get back to Nuorilang, and descend along Shuzheng Valley to the park entrance and visit Rhinoceros Lake, Tiger Lakes, Shuzheng Waterfall, Sparkling Lake, etc. on route.
After Jiuzhaigou sightseeing, your tour guide and driver will escort you back to your hotel.
Useful tips: 1) try to have breakfast and enter the park earlier to escape the crowds of tourist groups; 2) wear comfortable walking shoes and seasonal cloths based on your travel month; 3) Buffet lunch is provided in Nuorilang Restaurant (the only restaurant in the valley) but food options are limited. You can also bring some snacks or let your hotel prepare packed food for you if you like.
Day 5 Jiuzhaigou - Huanglong - Chengdu (B)
Today's highlight: Huanglong National Park
After breakfast, drive about 2 hours from Jiuzhaigou to visit Huanglong National Park which has one of three most outstanding travertine lake terraces in the world, which is 3.6 kilometers long, and lies under the grandiose peak of Xuebao Peak (Snow Treasure Mountain: 5,588 meters) like a yellow dragon. This is how the valley gained the name of Huanglong (Yellow Dragon). The travertine scenery was created by geological evolution for thousands of years, including glacial revolution, terrane movement, chemical reaction, climate changing, etc. At the top (3556 m) of the valley lies the best highlight - Five-Color Ponds consisting of 693 ponds of different sizes, shapes, colors, dazzling like beautiful emeralds. Huanglong Valley is also renowned for superlative sceneries of snow mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, wild forests, etc. as well as an important habitant of Giant Pandas and Snub-nosed monkeys. All these magnificences of nature helped Huanglong gain the title of World Natural Heritage Site in 1992.
It usually takes about 6 hours to hike from the entrance to Five-Color Ponds, then return to the entrance. To save energy and time, you will take a quick cable car directly to the top, and then walk down the valley to enjoy the scenery.
After about 3-hour sightseeing in Huanglong Valley, you will leave the park and drive a short while to Huanglong Jiuzhai Station to catch your high speed train back to Chengdu (about 2 hours' ride). Be picked up by your driver in Chengdu, then go to check in to your hotel in Chengdu.
Day 6 Chengdu Departure (B)
Chengdu airport/train station drop off
Your guide will pick you up from the hotel to the airport in time for the scheduled flight to your next destination. Before that, you can take a rest at the hotel or go for a walk nearby.
1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in a 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons. It will drop greatly if your group has 4 or more members.
2. This price is subject to change according to your traveling season, month and date. There may be huge price increasing during public Chinese holidays, school summer vacations, tourism peak seasons or some special dates. (China Public Holiday 2025 Schedule Released)
3. Other factors that may change the final tour price include group size, hotel class, tour activities, fluctuation of currency exchange rate, etc.
4. This price is based on exchange rate USD 1=RMB 7.00. The final price will be based on the exchange rate in effect at the time of agreement with our quotation.
5. This price is only valid to March 31, 2026.
6. This price is not the final price until the Confirmation Letter is sent.
7. The items included and excluded in this price are for reference only. The final services included, please refer to the confirmation letter sent to you by the travel consultant.
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We really enjoyed the cruise with our family. It’s the right length, not too long and not too short. It’s good price, well planned. I think the included excursions are well worth it. We had tour guides who speak English well so that’s really convenient for my son. I think it’s great trip at low season. It might not be very pleasant if crowded so I may not recommend to my friends to go at high season.
Service on cruise is very good, they all work very hard.
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Thank you for all the arrangements and professional approach. We returned home last night and loved every day of our trip:-)
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It was good. Dali is a very charming city. We did not regret changing our itinerary at the last minute. We are glad that we went there. Thank you for arranging everything according to our requests. The non-smoking rooms, english-speaking guide, very clean bus. Hotel location was exceptional. We just wished we could stay longer and had the chance to enjoy the city more. Maybe next time.
Debbie
Hi Elk,
We had a great trip. While the boat is old and certainly needs some work, the excursions were good and the service was fantastic. The food was mostly Chinese but enough variety that we didn't go hungry at all. We would recommend it.
Thank you for organizing.
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Thanks for support. We are boarded train going back to HK. We had amazing trip. You had done fantastic travel arrangements. Most important tour guide were really good, had good knowledge, really caring, even not part of trip taken best places for dinner, ensure we reach hotel safety as can't read local language maps , must try local food like oil tea, pumpkin cake, chicken cooked in bamboo refer photos.
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Chengdu Tianfu International Airport Pick Up
Our dear clients was experiencing Chengdu local living style in the People's Park
Lovely Pandas in Chengdu Panda Base - Photographed by Our Guest Chona
The Spring View Jiuzhaigou - Robert
Five-color Lake in Zechawa Valley
Jiuzhaigou in autumn - world of colors
Jiuzhaigou waterfall
Five-Color Ponds in Huanglong Valley
Huanglong Five-Color Ponds in Autumn
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Jiuzhaigou is located in northern Sichuan Province in southwestern China. It is about 450 km north from Chengdu city, approximately 1.5 hours' high speed train, 1 hour’ flight or 7~8 hour’s driving. Generally speaking, if you travel solo, or travel with kids, or want a more comfortable trip, you are suggested to take train to get to Jiuzhaigou. If your time is not on budget, or want to experience more places along the road, driving is the best option for you.
A Jiuzhaigou tour usually starts from Chengdu. You can take the early high speed trains so that you have at least a half day to explore Huanglong Valley before heading to Jiuzhaigou. Stay in a hotel close to the entrance of Jiuzhaigou Valley. Day 2 can be a full day exploration in Jiuzhaigou Valley. With the help of sightseeing bus, you can visit most of the beautiful attractions in the three valleys of Jiuzhaigou in a full day. Day 3 is for you to leave Jiuzhaigou. If you prefer a land-driving tour, you need 4 days. Day 1 is to drive about 7~8 hours from Chengdu to Songpan or Chuanzhusi, two towns near Huanglong Valley; Day 2 is to visit Huanglong Valley and drive about 2 hours to Jiuzhaigou for accommodation. Day 3 is a full day spent in Jiuzhaigou Valley. Day 4 is to drive back to Chengdu from Jiuzhaigou. There are some stops along the driving to take rest, sightsee and have lunch between Chengdu Jiuzhaigou driving. If you arrive at Jiuzhaigou from other cities, we can pick up you at the airport either.
Staying overnight in Jiuzhaigou Valley is not allowed due to environment protection. Travelers usually stay in the Goukou (Jiuzhaigou Valley Entrance) area where hotels options are flexible from 5 stars to 3 stars. China Discovery only uses those hotels with convenient amenities, fine services and great reputations. Most of them are 5-star and 4-star hotels located near the Goukou area where you can also get easy accesses to food street, shopping malls, banks, etc. We will also take care of the private transfers between hotel and the scenic area for you.
Some attractions in Huanglong valleys are located over 3500 meters above the sea level, which may cause high altitude sickness for some travelers. You can take high altitude sickness prevention medicine about 2~3 days before your tour. During your tour, you’d better walk at a slower pace. If you feel hard to breathe or headache, you can go to the Oxygen Bars in Huanglong Valley to rest and take oxygen; The altitudes of Jiuzhaigou valley is lower than Huanglong. The altitudes of most of the attractions in Jiuzhaigou are below 3000 m. With the help of sightseeing bus and rich oxygen density, the chance is small to get high altitude sickness.
Or start your journey by exploring Jiuzhaigou National Park first, and save your visit to Huanglong for later days. This approach ensures you have two nights to acclimatize to the high altitudes.
Jiuzhaigou is open all year around, but the best time for travel is from June to November. The most beautiful scenery comes in late September and fade in middle November when the forests turn to colorful, waters are clean and weather is most enjoyable. Winter is a good time for photography of snow world. It is also less-crowded and money-saving. March to May is not a very good time. The weather is great but some pools, lakes and waterfalls may be dried-up.
Jiuzhaigou has a plateau climate with lots of sunny days and huge temperature difference between day and night. The temperature in spring is still a little cold and you need to prepare sweater and coat to keep warm. The summer of Jiuzhaigou is cool, and wearing a T-shirt or pants is enough. But rain gear, sun-screen and moisturizer are a must-taken items with you in summer. In Autumn, You can take a long-sleeved blouse with a light coat at day time and thick clothes at night. If you plan a winter travel, you need to wear thicker clothes, like down jacket or cotton wadded jacket together with thick sweater in it. You can ask your travel consultant for more detailed weather information and tips.
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