
Tour Name : The Best of Chongqing Day Tour ![]() |
| Dates : daily |
| Tour Price : from $41 USD Click for price Details » |
| Destinations : The "Mountain City" of Chongqing clings to steep cliffs at the confluence of the Yangtze and a major tributary, the Jialing River. This bustling city rises high above docks held in the rushing currents by cables lashed to anchor holes cut into the rocky shore. Cable cars glide across to opposite banks and giant bridges carry creeping waves of trucks loaded with the city's varied industrial output. Caves perforate the steep hills, once built as bomb shelters and now busy as garages or naturally cool restaurants and hair salons. For centuries the main commercial and transportation centre for Sichuan Province, Chongqing is now under rapid transformation due to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. The city was granted national status in l996 as a municipal region similar to Bejing, Shanghai and Tianjin with an administrative region that includes the eastern Sichuan counties downriver for a total population of some 30 million people. Chongqing is now proud to be the world's largest metropolitan region. |
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| Day 1 | |
Today's Activities: Today we will firstly visit the Goose Neck Park which has a good view of the city and the roiling Yangtze River. A great mural of the Yangtze River shows the pre-dam water levels and elevation marks signifying the displacement of the local population, as well as the land area that has been and will be covered when the dam is completed. Then we will go to visit the Ciqikou Old Town which is a street of Hundreds's Years old. Take a walk to Ciqikou Old Street where you can see local shops, old wooden houses, old pier, tea houses, and local Sichuan street performance. After lunch, we will go to visit the Panda Enclosure in Chongqing Zoo. Meals: |
