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3 Days Lanzhou Private Trip to Bingling Temple and Labrang Monastery
Summary
In three days, you can accomplish a lot of sightseeing from Lanzhou on this private guided tour. Enjoy amazing view of the Liujia Gorge, Yellow river and take the boat cruise to discover the UNESCO site of Bingling Temple. Explor the magnificent Labrang Monastery; learn about the Tibetan Buddhism, its unique style of architecture, its people, life and soul.
Tour Highlights:
1. Visit famous local landmarks in Lanzhou City along the Yellow River;
2. Learn about Tibet Buddhism in Gelug Monastery - Labrang Monastery and enjoy beautiful grassland scenery nearby;
3. Take a speed boat ride to discovery marvelous ancient Buddhist grottoes art in Bingling Temple cliff side.
Price:$690
Travel Route:Chengdu / Wolong / Chengdu
Travel Length:
Tour Code:CD-PTWL-0143
Group Size:You, your family and friends
Experience:Architecture,Culture,Photograph
Departure:Any day you want
Day 1 Lanzhou Arrival
Welcome to Lanzhou - a city of Yellow River. Your tour guide will pick you up at the airport/train station in Lanzhou, and then escort you to your hotel in a private vehicle. Today you will visit the First Bridge on Yellow River. Named as Zhongshan Bridge to memorize Sun Yat-sen, this iron bridge was the first sample built by foreign technology in Northwestern China, already standing over 100 years. Then visit the White Pagoda Mountain on the north bank of the Yellow River. You can have a short walk to the top, or take a cable car running across the river. The mountain once was an ancient fortress and now is a large architecture complex with some temples, pavilions, archways and museum hillside open to public for free. Built in Yuan Dynasty with Lamasery features, White Pagoda Temple on the top is wildly regarded as “the Window of Lanzhou” - a must-visit where you can get an impressive panoramic view of Lanzhou city and the rushing Yellow River.
Tour Tips: You can take one-way cable car up to near the White Pagoda Temple and walk down to see spots en route.
Day 2 Lanzhou-Bingling Temple Grottoes-Xiahe
After breakfast driving about 2 hours to Liujia Gorge. Liujia Gorge is the large water-power engineering project which was completed in 1974. It is the seventh step hydro-electric station, with multifunction such as generating electricity, controlling flood, breeding aquatics, irrigating, shipping, and sightseeing. From the dock, take the high speed boat (30 minute) to reach the Bingling Temple Grottoes. Bingling means one hundred thousand Buddha in the Tibetan language. The grottoes are in two temples, upper and lower, and are distributed on the cliff that is 2 kilometers long from north to south, borders on the Yellow River and is strategically located and difficult to access. Bingling Temple Grottos started in the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316). There are altogether 34 grottoes, 149 shrines, 694 big or small stone statues, 82 mud statues here. There is an ink preface of that time found in the No.169 grotto, which is the earliest preface found in the all the grottoes by far. After the tour heading directly to Xiahe where the Labrang Monastery is.
Tour Tips:
1. Bingling Temple can only be reached by waterway in summer and autumn via Liujiaxia Dam. Additional fees will be charged for visiting special caves.
2. The average elevation of Xiahe County is within 3,000 m (9,843 ft), seldom incurs high altitude sickness when visiting Xiahe.
Day3 Xiahe – Lanzhou
In the morning visit Labrang Monastery, the most influential monastery outside the Tibet Autonomous Region and also one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also famous for having the most complete Tibetan Buddhism teaching system in China. The monastery is large in scale and magnificent in architecture style, enshrining a lot of huge Buddha statues and various exquisite sculptures, murals and magical instruments. Its pilgrimage corridor has over 2000 prayer wheels, as the longest of its kind in the world. In the southwest corner of Labrang Monastery, there is an ancient wooden bridge. Walking crosses the bridge and walking up to the hill, you can enjoy a panoramic view of Labrang Monastery and surrounding. Afterwards, take an excursion to Sangke Grassland which is a natural pasture of Tibetan nomads. The grass is lush like a blanket in summer and the cattle and sheep are herding in groups under the blue sky and white clouds. What a pastoral scenery. Every year on July 13th of the lunar calendar, the seven tribes of Sangke region will gather at Sangke Grassland and hold a horse racing festival here. After Sangke Grassland visit, Transferred back to your hotel in Lanzhou (Approx. 3.5 hours’ drive). Or finish your tour in Xiahe and go to your next destination on your own.
Welcome to Lanzhou - a city of Yellow River. Your tour guide will pick you up at the airport/train station in Lanzhou, and then escort you to your hotel in a private vehicle. Today you will visit the First Bridge on Yellow River. Named as Zhongshan Bridge to memorize Sun Yat-sen, this iron bridge was the first sample built by foreign technology in Northwestern China, already standing over 100 years. Then visit the White Pagoda Mountain on the north bank of the Yellow River. You can have a short walk to the top, or take a cable car running across the river. The mountain once was an ancient fortress and now is a large architecture complex with some temples, pavilions, archways and museum hillside open to public for free. Built in Yuan Dynasty with Lamasery features, White Pagoda Temple on the top is wildly regarded as “the Window of Lanzhou” - a must-visit where you can get an impressive panoramic view of Lanzhou city and the rushing Yellow River.
Tour Tips: You can take one-way cable car up to near the White Pagoda Temple and walk down to see spots en route.
Day 2 Lanzhou-Bingling Temple Grottoes-Xiahe
After breakfast driving about 2 hours to Liujia Gorge. Liujia Gorge is the large water-power engineering project which was completed in 1974. It is the seventh step hydro-electric station, with multifunction such as generating electricity, controlling flood, breeding aquatics, irrigating, shipping, and sightseeing. From the dock, take the high speed boat (30 minute) to reach the Bingling Temple Grottoes. Bingling means one hundred thousand Buddha in the Tibetan language. The grottoes are in two temples, upper and lower, and are distributed on the cliff that is 2 kilometers long from north to south, borders on the Yellow River and is strategically located and difficult to access. Bingling Temple Grottos started in the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316). There are altogether 34 grottoes, 149 shrines, 694 big or small stone statues, 82 mud statues here. There is an ink preface of that time found in the No.169 grotto, which is the earliest preface found in the all the grottoes by far. After the tour heading directly to Xiahe where the Labrang Monastery is.
Tour Tips:
1. Bingling Temple can only be reached by waterway in summer and autumn via Liujiaxia Dam. Additional fees will be charged for visiting special caves.
2. The average elevation of Xiahe County is within 3,000 m (9,843 ft), seldom incurs high altitude sickness when visiting Xiahe.
Day3 Xiahe – Lanzhou
In the morning visit Labrang Monastery, the most influential monastery outside the Tibet Autonomous Region and also one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also famous for having the most complete Tibetan Buddhism teaching system in China. The monastery is large in scale and magnificent in architecture style, enshrining a lot of huge Buddha statues and various exquisite sculptures, murals and magical instruments. Its pilgrimage corridor has over 2000 prayer wheels, as the longest of its kind in the world. In the southwest corner of Labrang Monastery, there is an ancient wooden bridge. Walking crosses the bridge and walking up to the hill, you can enjoy a panoramic view of Labrang Monastery and surrounding. Afterwards, take an excursion to Sangke Grassland which is a natural pasture of Tibetan nomads. The grass is lush like a blanket in summer and the cattle and sheep are herding in groups under the blue sky and white clouds. What a pastoral scenery. Every year on July 13th of the lunar calendar, the seven tribes of Sangke region will gather at Sangke Grassland and hold a horse racing festival here. After Sangke Grassland visit, Transferred back to your hotel in Lanzhou (Approx. 3.5 hours’ drive). Or finish your tour in Xiahe and go to your next destination on your own.
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Day 01:
You can take one-way cable car up to near the White Pagoda Temple and walk down to see spots en route.
Day 02:
1. Bingling Temple can only be reached by waterway in summer and autumn via Liujiaxia Dam. Additional fees will be charged for visiting special caves.
2. The average elevation of Xiahe County is within 3,000 m (9,843 ft), seldom incurs high altitude sickness when visiting Xiahe.
You can take one-way cable car up to near the White Pagoda Temple and walk down to see spots en route.
Day 02:
1. Bingling Temple can only be reached by waterway in summer and autumn via Liujiaxia Dam. Additional fees will be charged for visiting special caves.
2. The average elevation of Xiahe County is within 3,000 m (9,843 ft), seldom incurs high altitude sickness when visiting Xiahe.
Any cancellation by you must be initiated by telephone/message to +86-15528237897 OR by email to info@letourpanda.com. We will acknowledge your cancellation by email.
If you cancel or cannot take your tour as a consequence of force majeure, LeTourPanda will refund the amount you have paid less any non-recoverable out-of-pocket costs incurred on your behalf - car rentals, admissions, hotel reservations, tickets etc. We may require you to provide verification to confirm that you were unable to take your tour if you request a refund under this provision.
Force Majeure includes impersonal events such as war, civil insurrection, strikes, volcanoes, extreme weather, earthquake or natural disaster that makes it dangerous or impossible to safely undertake the tour. The determination of what constitutes 'Force Majeure' is at the discretion of LeTourPanda.
For cancellation due to any other reasons (such as illness, change of personal circumstances), the date on which the request to cancel is received by LeTourPanda will determine the refund due as follows:
If you cancel 7 days or more before the start of the tour:10% cancellation fee.
If you cancel 6 to 2 days before the start of the tour:50% cancellation fee.
If you cancel less than 1 day before the start of the tour or no show: 100% cancellation fee.
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50
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