1-Day Side Trip to Dazu Grottoes

- Dazu Grottoes Day Tour

Trip Highlights - Attractions involved: Chongqing Dazu Grottoes is located at the southeast of Sichuan province. It is 271 kilometers (about 168.4 miles) from Chengdu on its west and 167 kilometers (about 103.8 miles) from Chongqing on its east. The whole county has an area of 1,400 square kilometers (about 540.5 square miles), and it covers a history of 1,230 years since it came into existence in 758 during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). When you travel in Dazu County, you can get more ancient stones carving from the guide of Dazu history. We are kindly to offer a one-day Dazu Grottoes Side tour with excellent service and competitive rates.
Availability: Daily.      Pick-up Point & Time: Your hotel, 8:30am.      Finishing Point & Time: Your hotel, 5:00pm.      Duration: 8 hours.

Tour Itinerary: (Lunch)
Our professional tour guide will pick you up from hotel of Chongqing in the morning to Dazu, visit the Dazu Grottoes. The Dazu Rock Carvings occupy an important position in the history of China's grotto art. They include not only Buddhist figures, but also Taoist and Confucian figures, which makes them different from grottoes dating from previous times. Its statues, which have strong national and secular features, and depict many activities of ancient people's daily lives, mark the completion of the localization process of China's grotto art and reflect great changes and developments in China's folk religion and grotto art. Within it, to explore 50,000 stone sculptures of all sizes scattered throughout area. Be transferred back to your hotel. (Service End)
Attraction Description  
The Dazu Rock Carvings
The Dazu Rock Carvings was built from 650 in the Tang Dynasty and continued to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911). It is as famous as the Mogao Cave in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. The rock carvings in these places are very distinguished both at home and abroad. Among the rock carvings, there are more than 5,000 statues and over100, 000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs. The Buddhist statues dominate in...