Chengdu — Sights
Pandas at dawn, hotpot past midnight, tea all day long.
- Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding — A bamboo-forest park where you time your visit to panda breakfast
- Kuanzhai Xiangzi (Wide and Narrow Alleys) — Three Qing-era courtyard lanes of teahouses, snacks and souvenirs
- Jinli Ancient Street — A lantern-hung lane of snacks and souvenirs along the shrine wall
- Wuhou Shrine — The Three Kingdoms shrine where Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang share one temple
- Du Fu Thatched Cottage — A bamboo garden around the cottage where the poet Du Fu lived
- People's Park & Heming Teahouse — Spend an afternoon in a bamboo chair over a bowl of tea
- Wenshu Monastery — A free working temple where Chengdu locals come to pray
- Sichuan Opera Face-Changing Show (Shu Feng Ya Yun) — A Sichuan opera sampler where masks change in a blink
- Chunxi Road & Taikoo Li — Chengdu's downtown loop, from the IFS panda to a temple ringed by boutiques
- Leshan Giant Buddha — The world's largest stone Buddha, 71 metres of carved cliff
- Mount Emei — A golden Buddha 3,077m up, floating over a sea of clouds
- Dujiangyan & Mount Qingcheng — A 2,000-year-old waterworks and a Taoist mountain in one day
- Jiuzhaigou Valley — A Y-shaped valley of paint-box lakes and waterfalls
- Anshun Bridge & Jiuyan Bridge at Night — Chengdu's classic night view: a roofed bridge lit up over the river
- Sanxingdui Museum — Bulging-eyed bronze masks from a 3,000-year-old mystery culture
- Sichuan Museum — Ba-Shu bronzes and Han tomb figurines, free to enter
- Chengdu Museum — City history from the Sui era to now, in the centre
- Qingyang Palace — Chengdu's biggest Taoist temple, incense and old-timers' tea
- Dongjiao Memory — An old electronics factory turned red-brick art district
- Huanhuaxi Park — A free riverside park where locals walk on weekend mornings
- Wangjianglou Park — Bamboo groves and a riverside pavilion
- Daci Temple — A quiet temple behind the shopping streets
- IFS Giant Panda Sculpture — A panda hanging off a tower, peering down
- Huanglongxi Ancient Town — A Ming-Qing river town of stone lanes and teahouses