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The Dujiangyan Irrigation Project is one of the great irrigation projects of ancient China. It was built by Li Bing in 256 BC to prevent floods of the Min River (a tributary of Yangtze river), and it is still in use draining off floodwater, irrigating farmlands, and providing water to factories.
Along with seeing the outstanding ancient engineering, the natural scenery is beautiful, and it also gets a Certificate of Excellence in 2018 on TripAdvisor. It is also the place to taste delicious local snacks.
Usually, tourists take a side trip from Chengdu to visit Dujiangyan Irrigation System. Most of them would spend two days there, the first half a day around (3~4 hours) to explore the magical Dujiangyan Irrigation System. And during the rest of that day, they will head to Mount Qingcheng to indulge in the peaceful natural forest and holy Taoist culture. Stay one night at Dujiangyan City or Qingchengshanzhen. Get up early in the second day and join the whole-day panda volunteer program in Dujiangyan Panda Base, have a intimated contact with them. If your time is limited, you can choose two scenic spots out of three and shorten your Dujiangyan tour for one day.
Before or after the Dujiangyan tour, many visitors will take 1~2 days or so to discover the delicious food and fantastic attractions in Chengdu downtown, like Chengdu Panda Base, Jinli Ancient Street, etc.
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Dujiangyan is a beautiful city with good air quality. There are many attractions in Dujiangyan. The most famous one is the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, and the city is named after this project. Besides that, Mount Qingcheng is also a great place to relax. If you are interested in giant panda, the Dujiangyan Panda Base is your best choice.
Dujiangyan Irrigation System was built two thousand years ago, and it’s the representative of Dujiangyan City. It makes a great contribution to the abundance of Chengdu.
Mount Qingcheng is a very tranquil mountain and it’s one of the famous Taoism mountains in China. Aged Taoism temples sitting in the serene forest, just like in paradise.
For panda lovers, Dujiangyan Panda Base is a great place to go. Tourists can participate the Panda Volunteer Program here to learn more about pandas through experiencing the keepers’ daily work.
Dujiangyan Confucius Temple is the ONLY living Confucius Temple in China to experience traditional Six Arts - “Rites”, “Music”, “Archery”, “Charioteering”, “Calligraphy” and “Mathematics”.
Also called the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Dujiangyan Field Research Center. You can see about 10 giant pandas living in this wild, natural and peaceful environment.
Jiezi Ancient Town is the hometown of the Ladle Poet – Tang Qiu in Late Tang Dynasty. It is also reputed as “the Back Garden of Mount Qingcheng" and “Hometown of Orchid”.
Dujiangyan City is located in a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone in Sichuan Basin, and the weather here is not two cold or too hot, it’s a great place to live. In the coldest month, the average temperature is 4.6℃, while in the hottest month, the average temperature is 24.4℃. Annual average rainfall is 1243.8 millimeters.
The best visiting time is from April to October. Dujiangyan is a famous summer resort and summer is the best time to visit. Even in the hottest time, Dujiangyan and Mount Qingcheng still retain a rather cool weather, and in most time, the weather is around 22℃. Besides, in summer, tourists can experience Hongkou drifting, beer festival in summer night.
Getting to Dujiangyan
Dujiangyan has no airport, and the closet airport is Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, which is about 70km to Dujiangyan City. At present, there is direct bus line from the airport to Dujiangyan Bus Station and it will drive about 1.5 hours. From Chengdu, travelers can take bullet bus in Chengdu North Railway Station to Dujiangyan, and this will only spend 30minutes to 50 minuts to get there. If you can’t catch the bullet train, then you can take bus at Chengdu Chadianzi Bus Station to Dujiangyan Bus Station, and it will drive about one hour.
Getting Around
Dujiangyan City is small and the public bus can take you to all of the attractions of Dujiangyan conveniently. Another way is taking taxi, which is more convenient and the price for the taxi is cheap than Chengdu. In most cases, transfer from one attraction to another will cost under ¥12.
Travel Dujiangyan with Travel Tour China
For visitors want to save energy and efforts on planning the not so convenient transfer between Dujiangyan and other popular destinations around Dujiangyan, you are highly recommended to travel with us Travel Tour China. WeTravel Tour China based in Chengdu, Sichuan have many professional experts with rich knowledge of whole Sichuan and will help you plan and arrange the most comfortable and convenient way to get to Dujiangyan city and around. Besides, our local English guide will introduce all history and highlights of Dujiangyan for your memorable experience and our driver will escort you from any places you want to your accommodation and attractions with our comfortable licensed private vehicle! Please feel free to contact us if you need any help!
Most travelers would stay one night in Dujiangyan city. Dujiangyan City has multiple kinds of accommodations, from cheap hostel to high-end hotels. Most accommodations are centered on Jianshe Road, Guanjing Road and Dujiangyan Avenue, etc. and these places are very close to Dujiangyan scenic area. Most travelers will choose to stay in this section. However, the price for the accommodation near the attractions is higher than other places. So when in the weekends or the tourism peak time, choose to stay overnight at those places which are more far about from the scenic area are also doable, because the price is cheaper in those places.
To help you have a better understanding of Dujiangyan’s location, transportation, top highlights, we here collect some useful maps at below, including Dujiangyan Panda Base Guide Map, Mount Qingcheng Tourist Map, Dujiangyan Irrigation Map, Dujiangyan Transportation Map, Dujiangyan Travel Map etc.
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