Family Tour in Chongqing

After arriving in Chongqing, the driver will come to greet you and transfer you to the hotel. Take a short break to recharge your energy for the subsequent tours.

In the afternoon, set off for Hongyadong. As an iconic scenic spot in Chongqing, it is famous for its unique "stilted building" style. Inside, you can taste characteristic Chongqing cuisines such as Chongqing hotpot. There are also blocks with different themes for you to explore. At night, the entire Hongyadong building complex will be lit up, appearing extraordinarily magnificent against the night backdrop, which is perfect for taking photos.

Hongya Cave

Your Journey’s Rewards:

By visiting Chongqing’s iconic scenic spots and tasting local cuisines, you will gain a preliminary understanding of Chongqing’s regional characteristics. Observe the appearance of Hongyadong to learn about the architectural features of the traditional "stilted buildings" and admire the spectacular night view of the stilted building complex.

Educational Focus:

Why can Hongyadong become an iconic building in Chongqing?

Takeaway:

Hongyadong adopts the unique "stilted building" as its main architectural style. Through mountainous architectural techniques such as terraced construction, stilted structures, cliffside positioning, and staggered stacking on each floor, it showcases the distinctive urban characteristics of Chongqing. Additionally, it organically integrates six major business formats including catering, entertainment, leisure, and Chongqing characteristic cultural shopping, forming a unique "three-dimensional aerial pedestrian street" commercial pattern and thus becoming an iconic block in Chongqing.

Thought Challenge:

What factors are related to the adaptability of Hongyadong’s stilted buildings to Chongqing’s "mountainous city adjacent to the river" environment?

Depart in the morning for Wulong Three Natural Bridges. This area features a typical karst landform, where three natural stone arch bridges—Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge, and Heilong Bridge—connect the mountain slopes on both sides of the canyon, forming the unique landscape of "three bridges flanking two sinkholes". Here, you can explore the Tang Dynasty-style imitation building "Tianfu Inn" with your children, which is the filming location of Zhang Yimou's movie Curse of the Golden Flower. It is also the Chinese filming location for Transformers: Age of Extinction; you can recall the movie plots here and feel the emotions of the protagonists in the film.

Wulong Three Natural Bridges boasts a highly representative karst landform. You and your children can appreciate the unique characteristics of this landform, and by listening to the guide's explanation, learn about the formation causes of karst landforms and enrich your geographical knowledge.

"Tianfu Inn"

Your Journey’s Rewards:

By visiting Wulong Three Natural Bridges and the filming locations of famous movies, you can experience film culture. Conduct on-site observation of karst landforms, understand the characteristics and formation causes of karst landforms, and enrich your geographical knowledge.

Educational Focus:

How was the unique landscape of Three Natural Bridges formed?

Takeaway:

In ancient times, the Wulong area developed extremely thick soluble rock formations, and the region had abundant precipitation—both of which provided favorable conditions for the formation of karst landforms. Later, due to erosion by underground rivers, the river channels gradually widened, and some areas began to collapse, thus forming massive underground karst caves. Large-scale collapses continued to occur on the roofs of these caves, creating sinkholes, while the remaining parts formed the natural bridges.

Thought Challenge:

In the tourism development of Wulong Three Natural Bridges, how to protect the geological forms of the natural bridges and the ecological environment of the canyon?

After breakfast, depart for Chongqing Zoo, a joyful home for giant pandas where you can see many adorable giant pandas. Here, you can observe the pandas' feeding and activities up close, learn about their living habits, cultivate your children's focus on wild animal protection, and enhance their awareness of wild animal conservation.

Giant Panda

Later, head to Liziba Station to experience the stunning scene of the light rail "passing through the building" in person and learn about this unique transportation method in Chongqing. Afterwards, participate in the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) tie-dyeing activity. Under professional guidance, work with your family to make tie-dyed handkerchiefs, wallets, clothes, and more. During the process, you can not only enjoy the fun of handcrafting but also learn about the tie-dyeing technique.

Liziba Light Rail Station

In the afternoon, visit the Chongqing Three Gorges Museum. Explore the precious cultural relics and video materials inside with your family, learn about the historical development and folk culture of the Three Gorges region, and gain a deeper understanding of the Three Gorges Project. Finally, go to Ciqikou Ancient Town, where a variety of Chongqing's characteristic delicacies gather. Wander with your family among the stilted-building shops, taste snacks such as fried dough twists and hand-made candy, watch the process of ICH handcraft production, and you can also go to teahouses to taste tea and experience the lifestyle of Chongqing locals.

Exhibits of the Three Gorges Museum

Taste Delicious Hotpot in Ciqikou

Your Journey’s Rewards:

Tour Chongqing Zoo with your children to learn knowledge about animals and enhance awareness of wild animal protection. Take the light rail to experience the unique transportation mode of Chongqing as a "mountain city". Experience ICH tie-dyeing to learn ICH techniques and feel the charm of ICH. Visiting the Chongqing Three Gorges Museum helps you and your family understand the history and folk customs of the Three Gorges region and broaden your global perspective.

Educational Focus:

Where lies the charm of tie-dyeing?

Takeaway:

The core charm of tie-dyeing lies in the "uncertainty" of changes: each dyeing process produces completely different textures due to subtle differences in dye penetration. The blue-and-white ice crack patterns, butterfly patterns, and water wave patterns can bring people different surprises. Unlike the uniformity of machine printing and dyeing, every tie-dyed work is unique.

Thought Challenge:

In the design and construction of the Liziba Light Rail Through-Building Project, how to solve the spatial conflicts and safety issues caused by "transportation lines passing through residential areas"?

You and your family will spend a delightful day at Chongqing Happy Valley. As a large-scale amusement park, every area of Chongqing Happy Valley is carefully designed to provide a rich and diverse range of entertainment experiences. Here, you can enjoy more than 100 amusement projects, ranging from thrilling roller coasters to family-friendly interactive games, with everything you could wish for. In addition, there are wonderful performances to watch. If you visit during traditional Chinese festivals, Happy Valley will hold grand festive events, which are well worth exploring with your family.

Experience Entertainment Facilities

Your Journey’s Rewards:

Happy Valley is not only a paradise for children but also an ideal place for adults to relieve stress. Experience exciting projects to relax, participate in family interactive games to enrich your children’s childhood experiences, and enjoy wonderful float parades and song-and-dance performances, ending a fulfilling day in a lively atmosphere.

Educational Focus:

What benefits does playing in an amusement park have for children’s physical development?

Takeaway:

Some special facilities provided by amusement parks, such as sky trails, slides, rainbow slides and other equipment, can bring multi-sensory stimulation to children, exercise their physical coordination abilities, and are very beneficial to the development of children’s nervous systems. During the process of exploration, children can also engage in aerobic exercise, making their bodies and minds healthier.

Thought Challenge:

With the continuous development of new technologies such as VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality), how should the traditional amusement projects in parks maintain their attractiveness?

Depart in the morning for Chongqing Science and Technology Museum. Under the guidance of professional docents, you will experience science and technology projects and learn popular science knowledge about safety. The first floor of the museum mainly introduces mechanical principles, where children can have interesting interactions with robots. The second floor is equipped with facilities for learning about various energy sources such as wind energy, solar energy, and tidal energy.

The third floor focuses on facilities related to disaster prevention and mitigation, as well as transportation technology. In the earthquake knowledge area, you can experience the feeling of an earthquake, learn knowledge about disaster escape and the operating principles of transportation tools. In addition, the most eye-catching attraction on the third floor is the giant spherical 4D dynamic theater, where dozens of movies are shown in rotation. Finally, you will go to the fourth floor, which has a simulated space capsule for you to experience the life of astronauts, as well as various robots that perform regularly, making it extremely interesting.

After lunch, head to Chongqing Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Experience Center to start an in-depth exploration journey of ICH culture. In the lacquer art workshop, you and your family can participate in the production of lacquer fans. Experience the entire production process from lacquer mixing, coloring to transfer printing, and create your own unique lacquer fan. You can also experience a variety of ICH crafts such as rubbing and paper-cutting, and make your own distinctive ICH works. After the experience, the driver will take you and your family to the airport, and the itinerary will come to an end.

Making Lacquer Fans

Rubbing Experience

Paper-cutting

Your Journey’s Rewards:

By visiting Chongqing Science and Technology Museum, you will learn science and technology knowledge, physics knowledge, transportation knowledge and safety knowledge. Children's experience of science projects can also enhance their interest in science and technology. At Chongqing ICH Experience Center, you will experience a variety of ICH activities, learn ICH techniques, and feel the charm of ICH culture.

Educational Focus:

Where lies the charm of paper-cutting art?

Takeaway:

The charm of paper-cutting lies in its ability to create an infinitely rich artistic world with simple tools and materials. All things in the world, such as flowers, birds, fish, insects, human stories, and auspicious patterns, can be depicted through paper-cutting. Every paper-cutting work is the crystallization of the creator's emotions and wisdom, containing profound cultural connotations.

Thought Challenge:

Nowadays, many ICH crafts are facing problems such as "shortage of inheritors" and "impact of industrialization". As ordinary tourists, besides participating in experience and production activities, what other ways can we contribute to the protection and inheritance of ICH?