Charming Chongqing - 4-Day Insta-Famous City Tour

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Day 1 - Arrive in Chongqing

Meals: none | Overnight: Chongqing city centre

Fly or take the high-speed train to Chongqing, where our staff meet you at the airport or station for a direct private transfer to your hotel. No sightseeing today - simply check in with your ID and settle into the mountain city. Our team will call or text you between 19:00 and 21:30 with tomorrow's departure time and meeting point, so please keep your phone on.

Day 2 - Three Natural Bridges and Fairy Mountain

Meals: breakfast, lunch, Tujia banquet dinner | Overnight: Wulong or Pengshui

After breakfast, transfer to the Three Natural Bridges Scenic Area - a UNESCO World Heritage site, the world's largest natural bridge cluster and second-largest sinkhole group (approx. 2 hours). Access is by mandatory shuttle bus. Continue to Fairy Mountain National Forest Park (approx. 1.5 hours), known as the Summer Palace of the Mountain City and the Oriental Switzerland for its rare southern alpine grassland.

Day 3 - Jiuli City and the Wujiang Painted Gallery

Meals: breakfast, Miao long-table banquet, local Chongqing dinner | Overnight: Changshou or Fuling

Visit Chiyou Jiuli City, the largest traditional Miao architectural complex in China and the tallest stilt-house structure in the world - often called the Potala Palace of the Miao people. Then board a boat through the Wujiang Painted Gallery, a hundred-mile stretch of gorges combining the grandeur of Qutang, the elegance of Wu Gorge and the drama of Xiling, passing Tuotuo Gorge, Monkey Mountain and the old town ruins.

Day 4 - Old Chongqing and departure

Meals: breakfast, lunch | Tour ends in the city

Visit a jade and handicraft centre (120 min) and a local speciality market (90 min), then explore Ciqikou Ancient Town, the AAAA-rated thousand-year-old town nicknamed Little Chongqing, for street food along its flagstone lanes. Photograph the famous Liziba light rail station where the monorail runs straight through a residential tower, then finish at Hongyadong, the stilt-house complex cascading 75 metres down the cliff face - stay on for the illuminated night view.

What's Included

• Transport: licensed tourism vehicles throughout, sized to group numbers.
• Accommodation: 1 night boutique hotel in the city centre, 1 night in Wulong, and an upgraded night at a characterful hotel in Changshou or Fuling. In peak season a hotel of equal or higher standard may be substituted.
• Guide: licensed Chinese-speaking guide handling daily arrangements, commentary along the route and on-the-spot problem solving.
• Meals: daily hotel breakfast (2 per room) plus 5 main meals, including the Miao long-table banquet, bamboo steamer banquet, Tujia banquet and a Chongqing hotpot.
• Transfers: complimentary airport or railway station meet-and-greet on arrival.

Not Included and Good to Know

Mandatory local surcharges - 298 RMB per person total

• Wujiang Painted Gallery boat cruise: 168 RMB per person
• Three Natural Bridges shuttle bus: 40 RMB per person
• Tianlong spiral lift: 45 RMB per person
• Ancient Miao Flying Crossing or Secret Realm: 45 RMB per person

Optional extras

• Sinkhole electric cart: 15 RMB per person
• Fairy Mountain mini-train: 25 RMB per person

Traveller notes

• Single travellers pay a single-room supplement; room sharing is not arranged.
• Please keep your boarding pass and hand it to the guide on day two so tickets to Jiuli City can be issued.
• Guests aged 70-74 must travel with a family member and provide a health certificate from a county-level or higher hospital. Guests aged 75 and over cannot be accepted on this itinerary.
• Breakfasts are provided by the hotel; unused meals are non-refundable, as are voluntarily skipped attractions, since the tour is sold at a packaged rate.
• Travel agency liability insurance is included. Personal travel accident insurance is strongly recommended and arranged separately.