Private Tour
One Day Trip to Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Buddha Tour
Overview
Available languages
Mobile ticket
The Panda is the Highlights in Chengdu tour, chengdu panda base is about 30 mins car ride from Chengdu downtown.Chengdu giant panda center of breeding and research attracts almost 100,000 overseas visitors each year. Covering tens of hectares with bamboo groves and a native-like habitat, have more than 50 pandas,only here,you can see the baby panda in summer.
The famous 71 meters Leshan Giant Buddha is carved out of a cliff face. It shows a seated Buddha with his hands on his knees.
It is the tallest statue of the Buddha and the shoulders are 28 meters wide. The smallest toenail can easily seat a person and the 7 meters wide ear can accommodate two people. The head of the Leshan Giant Buddha is 14.7 meters tall and 10 meters wide and is covered with 1,021 buns of curly hair. People say:“The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain”
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Private transportation
Bottled water
Friendly and professional driver
Including parking fee,fuel cost,toll,
hotel pick up and drop off,round trip between chengdu panda base and leshan giant buddha
Gratuities
panda base and Leshan buddha tickets
tour guide service
lunch
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Meeting points
End points
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
Keep your camera to hand as you visit two of Chengdu’s most photo-worthy sites on this full-day tour – the UNESCO-listed Grand Buddha in Leshan and the Chengdu Panda Base. Start your day getting close to China’s adorable native pandas, with the chance to spot Giant Pandas, Red Pandas and baby pandas.
Leshan Giant Buddha (Da Fo)
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Leshan Giant Buddha stands 133 feet (71 meters) tall where three rivers meet—but there’s more to Leshan than the statue. This private full-day door-to-door tour lets you experience the Buddha from every angle—from a boat, from the stairs in the cliff, and even above his head.
Options
One Day Trip to Chengdu Panda Base and Leshan Buddha Tour
Pickup included
Reviews
36 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great Accommodating Guide
phil072lee,
Nov 3, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Tour guide was great. Very accommodating to my family while traveling with a toddler. He gave us plenty of time, didn’t rush. Stopped for food during our long drive to leshan buddah. He even had umbrellas available since it was very rainy. Also if doing the panda tour, he recommended the extra shuttle bus $30 CNY. Which was a lifesaver in the rain
Pandas and Leshan
Philip C,
Oct 22, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00We booked a tour to the Panda sanctuary and Leshan in Chengdu. Our driver and guide Li Chao, was excellent, patient and knowledgeable
Absolutely terrible.
Tsunamistas,
Oct 19, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
1.00I booked this $180/person “whole day” trip to visit the panda reserve and the Leshan Buddha through Tripadvisor. The logistics were terrible, a bad joke. The “guide” was also the driver and spoke no English at all, really at all, we “communicated” with sentences translated on his smartphone. In the panda reserve, he was not aware that the parking lot near the entrance was closed for months - we parked 1km away, he escorted me to the entrance, then I was on my own, no tips where to go and where to focus. Once out, we drove to Leshan. When we arrived there was a queue to buy tix, other groups had prebooked tix and walked right in. I was amazed that they had not reserved tix. After waiting for about 30 min, we were told there were no tix left for the day. Unbelievable as it sounds, they had booked me a tour without having booked tickets to where we were going in advance. So we drove back, without seeing the Buddha, and this was my only chance The trip to Leshan was 5 hour waste of time. Save your money, go by taxi, I priced it all at the hotel once back, it would have been 1/2 price for one person via taxi, 1/4 price for two. You can do everything they advertise as tours on your own, via taxi; the tour does not add anything except an early morning wake-up.
Great experience
csrao3,
Oct 12, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Viator sent the Car and driver, as planned. The driver was very polite and helpful, however he was speaking only Chinese. We managed a little bit with Apple Translation. Later on, we engaged an English speaking guide to take us around the Panda Research Base. She gave a great overview and was very professional. Additional expense of 300RMB could have been avoided if the driver was able to speak English (which we requested while making the booking)
Great Trip , Highly Recommend for People Short on Time
worster,
Oct 6, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Excellent Trip to Panda and Buddha . The trip went quite well and the communication through the journey ( booking to trip date) was extremely good , no complaints whatsoever. The co-ordinator is very helpful to asks of our requirements ( we didnt have any ) and always made contact. Highly Recommend this trip.
Great tour!!
Sofia S,
Sep 4, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our guide, Yan, made every effort to speak to us, even using apps to translate accurately all the information. She drove us to the destinations, but also showed us where to buy tickets, took us to lunch and helped us a lot on the Leshan Buddah sight. It was a great trip! No pressure about the time we spent in each place. I truly recomend it!
Panda-wonderful
Roam42998645200,
Aug 11, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00An awesome day visiting the pandas and Buddha. Lalaland was incredible with the service they provided as the guide only knew Chinese but the owner Lala was always available helping pout whenever needed. I felt incredibly well cared for
Exceptional driver
Ana M,
Aug 6, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00We hired the tour to the Pandas reserve and, later, to the Buddha of Leshan. Our driver, Zhoujianlong, was very friendly and even accompanied us to the entrance of the activity to guide us on how to access and buy tickets.
The super friendly operator, arrived early, his car very clean with bottled water. He helped us buy entrance tickets and we
Cynthia G,
Jul 22, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The operator arrived on time, very friendly, his car clean and with Agus bottled, helped us buy tickets and had very good attitude.
Our tour guide / driver...
Florence K,
May 6, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our tour guide / driver was outstanding, Huang Lin is a very smooth and safe driver and made our tour so much more enjoyable !
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