Private one day Dazu Rock Carvings tour with high speed train to Chengdu

Private one day Dazu Rock Carvings tour with high speed train to Chengdu

Located 101 miles (163 kilometers) away from downtown Chongqing, the general term of "Dazu Grottoes" refers to all the cliff and rock carvings in Dazu County. Under conservation and protection, there are 75 spots of cliff carvings and grottoes hosting more than 60,000 statues and over 100,000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs. Today, you will go to visit Baoding hill. After visit, you will take the train to Chengdu. Your Chengdu guide and driver will pick you up and send you to your Chengdu hotel.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Baoding Mountain Carved Stone, 16 km Northeast of Dazu County, Dazu County 402360 China

You will be picked up from your Chongqing hotel at 8 am, and go to the Dazu County of Chongqing to visit those wondrous rock carvings which is an excellent representation of Chinese grotto art for the morning.

The work of Dazu grottoes and carvings began in 650 A.D. in Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D) and carried out till Ming (1368-1644 A.D) and Qing (1644-1911 A.D) dynasties. It enjoys equal popularity with Dunhuang frescoes and forms the trilogy with Yungang and Longmen Grottoes. In 1999, UNESCO listed Dazu Stone Carvings as a world cultural heritage site. There are 75 spots of cliff side carvings showcasing more than 50,000 statues and over 100,000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs under preservation. The two major sites among these 75 spots are North Hill (Beishan) and Baoding Hill (Baodingshan). Today,you will visit Baoding Hill.

Variously exciting, comic and realistic, the carvings at Baoding Shan are unmissable. They are the life work of the monk Zhao Zheifeng, who raised the money and designed the carving work from 1179 to 1245. This accounts for the unusually harmonious nature of the 10,000 sculptures here.

Dafowan is the most impressive group of carvings on Baoding Shan, with 31 niches incorporated into the inner side of a broad, horseshoe-shaped gully. The sculptures depict scenes from the Buddhist scriptures intercut with images of daily life. They are all in amazing condition given their exposure to the weather. The Cave of Full Enlightenment is a lion-guarded deep grotto with 12 life-sized lohans surrounding the Buddhist trinity and a roof carved with clouds. An overhang beyond is decorated with demonic guardian figures painted in blue, red and green; this is followed by Anicca holding the wheel of predestination.

Afterwards, Your guide will send you to Take the high speed train to Chengdu(reference train number:G2884:17:01-17:57). Your Chengdu guide and driver will pick you up and send you to Chengdu hotel.

Duration: 3 hours