Sichuan - 21 Cities & Top Attractions

China's most famous panda breeding base, 10 km north of Chengdu, with 100+ giant and red pandas.

The reconstructed Three Kingdoms-era commercial street next to Wuhou Shrine, Chengdu's most atmospheric night-food street.

The 1,400-year-old temple-museum complex dedicated to Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, with the famous Tang-dynasty stele.

Chengdu's main shopping and food district, mixing modern malls and Tang-dynasty style lanes.

A modern cable-car ride to 4,860 m and the highest cafe in the world, with 13 active alpine glaciers.

A 30-km-long high-altitude forest valley south of Miyaluo, the most photogenic autumn maple destination in the Hengduan range.

The first great U-turn of the Yellow River in Ruoergai (Zoige) grassland, the most-photographed bend of the Yellow River.

A flat-water wetland lake on the Ruoergai grassland, summer wildflower blooming, autumn black-headed cranes.

A high-altitude marsh grassland at 3,500 m, summer flower-blanket, autumn yak herds, the most Tibetan experience in Aba.

A 2,000-year-old Qiang ethnic fortress village in Lixian, with 98 surviving stone watchtowers, the best-preserved Qiang settlement.

A 400-sq-km Tibetan Khampa grassland north of Kangding, with the Tagong Monastery, the Lhagong Snow Mountain, and an authentic Tibetan summer-pastoral experience.

A 30-sq-km glacier park on the eastern Gongga Mountain, with hot springs, ice falls, and the highest single-drop waterfall in China.

A 50-sq-km high-altitude lake on the Sichuan-Yunnan border, the Mosuo matrilineal ethnic culture and the Lige Peninsula.

A 31-sq-km high-altitude lake in Xichang, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center nearby, the Yi Torch Festival site.

A Taoist mountain near Mianyang, the Li Bai (Tang-dynasty poet) visiting site, the Confucian stone carvings.

A forested urban park in central Mianyang, with the Yuewang Tower overlooking the Fujiang river.

A 2,300-year-old ancient city in northern Sichuan, the Three Kingdoms-era battlefield, the preserved Song-dynasty county.

The legendary birthplace of Chinese tea cultivation, with the Ganlu Temple and the Mengding tea garden.

The Ya'an-based giant panda breeding base, smaller and quieter than the Chengdu one, with 30+ giant pandas in forested enclosures.

A working tea plantation in Ya'an, with tea-picking and Mengding green-tea tasting.

The forested urban park overlooking the Yangtze and Min river confluence, with a Song-dynasty pagoda.

A 1,500-year-old Yangtze river town, the wartime wartime wartime cultural heritage museum, the preserved Ming-Qing streetscape.

A Yangtze-side urban park in central Luzhou, with a Song-dynasty tower and the 1612 lighthouse.

The 1573-founded national baijiu heritage distillery, the most famous Luzhou-Laojiao brand tour and tasting.

The world's third-largest dinosaur museum, in the salt-mining city of Zigong, with 200+ Jurassic-period dinosaur fossils.

The world's first 1,001-meter-deep brine well (1835), the symbol of Zigong's 2,000-year salt industry.

The 3,000-4,000-year-old Bronze Age archaeological site and museum, the most significant pre-historic discovery in 20th-century China.

The 1,000-year-old New Year painting folk-art tradition, the southern Sichuan woodblock print village.

A 1,400-year-old Buddhist temple in central Suining, the Song-dynasty pagoda and the Tang-dynasty stone carvings.

A riverside eco-tourism park in Suining with hot springs and outdoor activities.

Su Dongpo's birthplace memorial, the iconic Song-dynasty poet and gourmet, the home of the famous Dongpo Pork dish.

A forested mountain reservoir near Meishan, the spring cherry blossom destination in southern Sichuan basin.

Deng Xiaoping's birthplace memorial in Guang'an, the modern founder of Chinese economic reform.

A forested urban park in central Guang'an, the 1,200-year-old ancient pagoda.

A forested urban mountain in central Dazhou, the Tang-dynasty stone-carved sitting Buddha.

A 60-km Yangtze beach in Xuanhan, the freshwater swimming destination in eastern Sichuan.

The 1930s Red Army memorial in Tongjiang, the site where the Red Fourth Front Army was reorganized in 1932.

A 700-sq-km subtropical nature reserve in Nanjiang, the UNESCO 'Man and the Biosphere' program site, the giant-panda habitat.

China's most comprehensive collection of Tang-Song Buddhist stone carvings, with 100,000+ statues across 130 sites in Anyue.

A regional hot spring resort south of Chengdu, popular weekend escape.

A working agricultural-park complex in Zizhong, with a sugar-making heritage museum.

A mountain park in central Neijiang, the historic river-confluence overlook.

A high-altitude reservoir east of Panzhihua, the southernmost urban lake in Sichuan, with winter cherry blossoms.

A working vineyard in the dry-hot valley, with year-round tropical fruits and wine tasting.