Dazu Rock Carvings Private Day Tour With the baoding Mountain and Beishan site
Visit highlights of Chongqing Dazu Rock Carvings including Baoding Mountain Carved Stone area and Dazu Roce Carvings Beishan Site with this private Dazu day tour. You will be picked up and dropped off from your Chongqing hotel
Options
Departure from Chongqing hotel
Pickup included
What's included in Dazu Rock Carvings Private Day Tour With the baoding Mountain and Beishan site
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
The Dazu Rock Carvings
Today, you will go to Dazu County for a whole day of sightseeing Baodingshan and Beishan area(your guide will meet you at 08:30 in your hotel lobby). This is the birthplace of the amazing Dazu rock carvings, which were created from the late Tang dynasty (618~907) to the early Song dynasty (960~1127). With the theme of Buddhism, the Dazu cliffside carvings are distributed in Beishan, Baodingshan, Nanshan, Shimenshan and Shizhuanshan. You will spend the day visiting the Baodingshan carvings located about 527 meters above sea level. It consists mainly of the Dafowan rock carvings area and the Xiaofowan rock carvings area. There are about 10,000 statues of Buddha carved on the 500 meter cliff in the U-shaped Dafowan. It is said to be a long narrative mural with plenty of commentary but no repeated content. When the tour ends, you will drive you back to your Chongqing hotel.
Baoding Mountain Carved Stone
Today, our guide will accompany you to tour the well-preserved Baodingshan Carvings. There are green buses taking you to Baodingshan directly. You will see that mountain cliffs are densely scattered with Buddhist and Taoist statues as well as celebrity figures from the late Tang Dynasty (618 - 907). You can wander at your own pace to have a close look at the precious grotto art. After the tour, a bumper lunch will be served at a fancy restaurant so that you can taste authentic Chongqing cuisines. After a short break, you will be transferred back to Beishan site for a further exploration of the Dazu Rock Carvings.
Dazu Rock Carvings Beishan Site
After 30 mins driving from Baodingshan area, we will reach the Beishan site which is located 2 km away from north Dazu County, Chongqing. It started carving in 892 during Tang Dynasty and then from the Five Dynasties to South Song Dynasty. The whole project last for 250 years and there was carved over 10,000 Buddhas’ statues at Fowan, Yinpang Slope, Guanyin Slope, Beita Temple, Foer and other places. The most concentrated statues is in Fowan, which has 290 grottoes. At the 300 meters long, 7 meters high cliff, there are 6 upright stone tablets, 55 prefaces and statue inscriptions, 8 Jingchuangs, 1 intaglio and 264 grottoes.
Inclusions
- The private car & private driver
- The entrance tickets
- The Lunch
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- We can start the tour from airport or train station if your flight/train arrival before 11am.
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 10 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
We can pick up at train station if your train arrival before 11am.