Chongqing 4-Day Tour
Wulong Karst + Dazu Rock Carvings + Modern Chongqing
Day-by-Day Itinerary
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Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street + Shibati Traditional Area + Luohan Temple + Chongqing People’s Auditorium
Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street
Jiefangbei Central Business District (CBD), also known as Jiefangbei Commercial Pedestrian Street, is a hyper-dense, urbanized downtown core area of Chongqing, and one of the most famous CBDs in inland Western China. It is centered around a large pedestrian square with an iconic monument (its namesake, the "Liberation Monument") and surrounded by towering skyscrapers. Thousands of shops, bars, and restaurants are located in the Jiefangbei CBD, including numerous large international department stores, upscale designer boutiques, local street food stalls, movie theaters, bars, and dance clubs; all concentrated on the pedestrian streets around the Liberation Monument and pedestrian plaza. Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street itself is lined with numerous massive shopping malls with giant LED screens and illuminated billboards, as well as the city's tallest commercial skyscrapers, world-class international hotels, and luxury residences.
Chongqing Shibati Traditional Style Area
Chongqing Shibati Traditional Style Area is one of the five traditional style areas in the southern part of Yuzhong District, Chongqing. It is not only the name of a region, but also refers to the Shibati Old Street within it. This bluestone slab staircase, with more than 200 steps and about 400 meters long, connects the upper and lower parts of Chongqing. The Shibati area is located on the floodplain of the Yuzhong Peninsula and is close to water sources, making it one of the earliest residential settlements in Chongqing during the Qin Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, in order to facilitate military exercises, stone steps were built to connect the parade ground, forming the earliest Shibati. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shibati, as the main passage connecting the upper and lower parts of the city, witnessed the prosperity and development of Chongqing's commerce and culture, and gradually formed public places such as herbal medicine markets, mosques, and Mawang Temples, and became an important commercial distribution center.
Luohan Temple
Luohan Temple is located in Yuzhong District, Chongqing City. It is a historical Buddhist temple and the location of the Chongqing Buddhist Association. The temple was first built during the reign of Emperor Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty (1064-1067) and was originally named "Zhiping Temple." The temple has undergone numerous renovations and reconstructions, especially during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, when the abbot Longfa organized the creation of five hundred Arhat statues, making the temple famous and earning it the name "Luohan Temple." The temple was bombed during the Anti-Japanese War and rebuilt in 1947. In 1983, it was designated by the State Council as a national key Buddhist temple in the Han Chinese area, and in 2006, it was listed by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit. Luohan Temple is famous for its exquisite cliff carvings and five hundred Arhat statues, of which more than 400 Buddha statues were carved in the Song Dynasty with exquisite craftsmanship. It is worth mentioning that Ning Hao's black comedy film "Crazy Stone" was filmed here in 2006.
Chongqing People's Auditorium
The Chongqing People's Auditorium is a large meeting and event venue located in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China. Construction of the auditorium began in June 1951 and was completed in April 1954, with the participation of Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, He Long and other leaders of the then Southwest Bureau. The auditorium includes a large auditorium and three attached parts in the east, south, and north, covering a total area of 66,000 square meters, of which the auditorium covers 18,500 square meters. The building is 65 meters high, and the circular dome auditorium is 55 meters high with an inner diameter of 46.33 meters. The auditorium is surrounded by five additional viewing areas that can accommodate 4,200 people. The building is symmetrical, with colonnades and wings. The auditorium can be viewed from the People's Square below, opposite the Three Gorges Museum. Currently, it is the meeting place for the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress and the Political Consultative Conference, the legislative body of Chongqing.
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Wulong Karst National Geology Park (Three Natural Bridges) + Longshuixia Fissure Gorge + Fairy Mountain National Forest Park
Wulong Karst Geological Park (Three Natural Bridges)
Wulong Karst Geological Park (Three Natural Bridges) is located in Fairy Mountain Town, Wulong District, Chongqing. It is a World Natural Heritage site and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. It consists of three majestic natural stone arch bridges: Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge, and Heilong Bridge. Between the bridges are two giant karst sinkholes, Tianlong Sinkhole and Shenying Sinkhole, which together form a magnificent natural landscape. The scenic area also has many caves such as Longquan Cave and Xianren Cave, as well as unique landforms such as the Yangshui River Karst Canyon and Longshui Gorge Ground Seam. It was once the filming location for the movies 'Curse of the Golden Flower' and 'Transformers 4', attracting countless tourists with its unique karst landform and rugged natural scenery.
Wulong Longshuixia Fissure National Geological Park
Wulong Longshuixia Fissure National Geological Park is located in Wulong District, Chongqing City, and is an important part of the 'South China Karst' World Natural Heritage site. The fissure is a typical canyon fissure landscape, 4 kilometers long and with an average depth of over 200 meters, famous for its unique U-shaped fissure, underground rivers, waterfalls, and karst caves, among other geological wonders. The park features multiple attractions such as 'Milky Way Flying Waterfall', 'A Glimmer of Sky', 'Dragon's Cold Cave', and 'Sacred Elephant Playing in Water', showcasing the marvels of nature.
Fairy Mountain National Forest Park
Fairy Mountain National Forest Park is located in Wulong District, Chongqing, and is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, famous for its unique alpine grassland and forest scenery. The average altitude here is 1900 meters, and the summer climate is cool, making it an ideal summer resort. The scenic area has vast grasslands, dense forests, peculiar peaks and karst caves, and other natural landscapes. It is a tourist area integrating leisure vacation, sightseeing, and outdoor sports.
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Dazu Rock Carvings Scenic Area + Jinfo Mountain National Scenic Area
Dazu Rock Carvings Scenic Area
The Dazu Rock Carvings are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Dazu District, Chongqing, China. The carvings date back to the 7th century AD and depict and are influenced by Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist beliefs. Some of them are cave grottoes in the traditional Chinese Buddhist style, but many others are reliefs carved directly into open rock faces. The Dazu Rock Carvings were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1999 and consist of 75 protected sites containing approximately 50,000 statues and over 100,000 Chinese character inscriptions and epigraphs. These sites are scattered across the rugged hillsides of Dazu District, Chongqing, about 165 kilometers from downtown Chongqing. The highlights of the grottoes are mainly concentrated in Baoding Mountain and Beishan Mountain.
Mount Jinfo National Scenic Area
Mount Jinfo, located in Nanchuan District, Chongqing, is the main peak of the Dalou Mountains and an important part of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Mount Jinfo is famous for its unique karst landforms and rich biodiversity. It has typical canyon, stone forest, and cave systems. The vegetation types include subtropical broad-leaved forests, coniferous forests, and subalpine meadows. It is known as a plant gene bank, with 4,768 species of seed plants, and may also contain natural Ginkgo populations. At the same time, it is also a habitat for rare and endangered animals (such as the Sichuan golden monkey). Due to its outstanding karst landforms and rich biodiversity, Mount Jinfo was listed on the World Heritage Tentative List in 2001, and was officially included in the World Heritage List in 2014 as an extension of the "South China Karst" World Heritage Site. Mount Jinfo is a National AAAAA Tourist Attraction, a National Scenic Area, a National Forest Park, a National Nature Reserve, a National Science Education Base, one of China's Most Influential Tourist Attractions, and one of Chongqing's "Twelve New Bayu Sceneries".
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Chongqing Raffles City + Chongqing Grand Theatre + Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall + Changjiahui Danzishi Old Street
Raffles City Chongqing
Raffles City Chongqing is a complex of eight buildings located in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China, developed by Singaporean real estate developer CapitaLand. Raffles City Chongqing features a 300-meter-long horizontal skybridge called "The Crystal" that connects the tops of four skyscrapers. The skybridge is the second highest in the world, second only to the Kingdom Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The entire project includes eight towers with a total construction area of 817,000 square meters and was designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. It is one of the most expensive buildings ever built in China.
Chongqing Grand Theatre
Chongqing Grand Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the center of Chongqing, China, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River. The 64-meter-high, six-story building was built between 2005 and 2009 and was co-designed by the design firm Hassell. The theater houses two main performance halls, the Opera Hall (Coliseum) and the Theatre, with capacities of 1826 and 938 people respectively, and are used for various large and small performances such as opera, ballet, symphony, musicals, dance, drama, and vocal music. Since its completion, the Chongqing Grand Theatre has successfully hosted performances by many well-known artists from home and abroad and various cultural events, and is an important cultural landmark in Chongqing.
Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall
Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall is located on Nanbin Road, Nan'an District, Chongqing, and is an important window to showcase Chongqing's urban planning and construction achievements and future development blueprint. The exhibition hall comprehensively and systematically introduces Chongqing's long history and culture, unique mountain city features, construction achievements since the reform and opening up, and future development plans through various forms such as pictures, texts, models, and multimedia. The hall has multiple exhibition areas such as the Historical and Cultural City Hall, the Overall Planning Hall, the District and County Planning Hall, the Professional Planning Hall, the Future Chongqing Hall, and the Digital Sand Table Hall. It is an important platform for citizens to understand Chongqing and for foreign tourists to know Chongqing.
Changjiahui Danzishi Old Street
Changjiahui Danzishi Old Street is located in Nan'an District, Chongqing City. It is a distinctive street district that integrates history and culture, sightseeing, and leisure entertainment. Here, you can not only experience the rich Bayu culture but also enjoy the beautiful scenery where the two rivers meet. The old street retains traditional architectural styles while incorporating modern commercial elements, making it an excellent place to experience Chongqing culture and taste local delicacies.
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