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Big Buddha Mountain Martial Art Culture Countryside Private Tour
Guangzhou, Southern China, China
$510
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Overview
This flexible private day tour from Guangzhou will let you explore Foshan area(hometown of Bruce Lee), immerse in the beautiful landscape in the countryside and escape the bustle city.
Big Buddha Mountain is entitled one of the "National Top Level Scenery" and has gained reputation from home and abroad for its primitive forest, natural waterfalls, sky lake(formed from ancient volcano crater), ancient villages as well as the big Buddha temple.
As per your interest, you can also visit one or two more sties nearby to compose a full day trip:
1) Watch Kung-Fu & traditional Chinese lion dance at Martial Art Museum.
2) Take a ferry to Pingsha island and cycle around to observe local village/farmland/orchard.
3) National Arts Studio, royal palace replica and ancient street with traditional architecture for films/television making.
4) Visit mulberry fish pond farm area to learn about recyclable mutual beneficial ecological system.
5) Guangdong Romance Park for Cantonese local culture.
Big Buddha Mountain is entitled one of the "National Top Level Scenery" and has gained reputation from home and abroad for its primitive forest, natural waterfalls, sky lake(formed from ancient volcano crater), ancient villages as well as the big Buddha temple.
As per your interest, you can also visit one or two more sties nearby to compose a full day trip:
1) Watch Kung-Fu & traditional Chinese lion dance at Martial Art Museum.
2) Take a ferry to Pingsha island and cycle around to observe local village/farmland/orchard.
3) National Arts Studio, royal palace replica and ancient street with traditional architecture for films/television making.
4) Visit mulberry fish pond farm area to learn about recyclable mutual beneficial ecological system.
5) Guangdong Romance Park for Cantonese local culture.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Basic Package Private Tour
Duration: 5 hours: For 5 hours tour to visit Big Buddha Mountain with hotel pick up and drop off in downtown Guangzhou
Pickup included
Duration: 5 hours: For 5 hours tour to visit Big Buddha Mountain with hotel pick up and drop off in downtown Guangzhou
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Availability depends on seasonality and number of participants. Bookings can not be made for the same day. Please read our TnC’s.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
When giving as a gift, your recipient can choose a date at their convenience during a booking process. Otherwise, you can choose one after checkout and voucher redemption.
Check available dates by emailing us at [email protected]
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Professional driver
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Hotel pick up and drop off in downtown Guangzhou
- Local English-speaking tour guide with full escort
- Private transportation
- Gratuities
- Admission tickets and lunch(for you and the guide)
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FoshanYour English-speaking tour guide and the private car with driver will come and pick you up at your hotel in Guangzhou, then drive for 1.5 hours to reach Foshan, which is a second tier city in China and it's famous as hometown of traditional Chinese martial art, for Kung-Fu master predecessor like Wong Fei-hung, Ip-man and Bruce Lee.
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Xiqiao Mountain National Forest ParkUpon arrival in Foshan, you will go visit the famous Big Buddha Mountain, it's a top level national 5A scenery with beautiful and tranquil landscape, a natural wonderland formed from an ancient volcanic crater on the mountain. You can take the scenic shuttle car to go up the mountain, have a panoramic overlook view to the local area on the observation deck platform, go in to explore the 500 years old Ming Dynasty buddhism temple with various religious architectures, hallways and buddhas, and finally climb many steps(optional) to reach the top of the mountain-the 61.8m tall big Guanyin Buddha bronze statue and marvel at fascinating scenery around. You can have lunch for yummy vegetarian food at a local vegetarian restaurant in the temple, optional and could be skipped based on your needs and interest.
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The Culture Center of Nanhai Guanyin, Xiqiao MountainView the manificent 61.8m big Guanyin Buddha bronze statue on top of the mountain, the highest spot of the 500 years old buddhism temple. Learn about the local religious culture and manner from your guide as you move around among the fish pools, burning joss sticks of incense and embossment sculptures of buddhism world.
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Tianhu ParkAfter visiting the big buddha temple, you can take the shuttle car again transfer to Sky Lake scenic area, it's formed upon an ancient volcanic crater hunderds of million years ago, now with rain water accumulation as a large clean reservoir on the mountain. You can stroll and explore the lush green path surrounding the lake for fun and relax, observe unique subtropical forest trees and fish. And this is the place where the traditional Chinese martial art Kung-Fu and lion dance is performed, you can sit down and watch the fantastic half an hour show by professional teenagers from martial school institution. As the highlight of Southern China culture, the lion dance is performed by two actors one in front one at the back, imitating a vivid lion which would jump and climb on separated independent wood sticks in the air displaying agile and skillful movement. Your guide will escort and explain to you the background knowledge and revelant stories for this stunning Cantonese culture.
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Guangdong Romance ParkIf you opt for medium/premium tour package, you will be transfered to second site-an emerging hotspot attraction-Guangdong Romance Park, a big theme park featuring fruitful local Cantonese history and culture. You can immerse yourself in ancient Cantonese style architecture atmosphere and interact with dedicated actors dressed up in traditional Chinese costume, take photo with Ip-man and Bruce Lee bronze statue and practise Kung-Fu with the "Wooden Man" stick, visit "Haunted House" with ghost NPC context, have fun at outdoor playground for rope net tunnel climbing and water floating bridges, and so on. And the wonderful highlight of it, watch and enjoy the fascinating 1-hour grand stage live show for "Guangzhou Eternal Love"-a must-see show in life time. It's an amazing marvelous performance mixed with high tech equipments and enthusiastic actors, presenting to you the mysterious and profound Southern China Cantonese history and culture evolution and development from old to modern.
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National Art StudiosAnd if you opt for the Premium tour package of 11 hours day trip, then after visiting the big buddha mountain and Guangdong Romance Park, you will continue to visit the third site-National Arts Studio. It's a large area with ancient city wall replica, imperial family palace real size imitation, local HK and Macau folk street and lots of old sites acting as train station, restaurants, church, shops, and so on. You may come across film maker teams hustling around in this Chinese style Hollywood.
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Wong Fei Hung Lion Dance Martial Arts MuseumIt's the Huang family ancestral hall for worshipping ancestors and social gathing activities, and now has been developed as martial arts museum featuring Wong Fei-hung(grand master of Ip-man, great grand master of Bruce Lee), the famous Chinese Kung-Fu martial art master predecessor well-known in Foshan and Southern China. Optional to visit, based on your interest, see if time allows during the day and you can discuss with your tour guide for this.
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Take a ferry to reach Pingsha Island, experience the countryside area of Southern China with subtropical climate. You can rent an electric bike to ride along the rural path on this island to see villages and various local plants and domestic animals on broad farmland and orchard like dragon fruit, banana, star fruit, papaya, cow, goats and dogs. Optional to visit, based on your interest, see if time allows during the day, you can discuss with your tour guide for this.
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Big Buddha Mountain Martial Art Culture Countryside Private Tour
Guangzhou, Southern China, China
$510
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!