Destinations / The Southwest
Chengdu成都
China's slow city — bamboo parks, teahouse afternoons, fire-flavored food, and the calmest pace in the country.
The city, plainly
Chengdu has made an art of taking it easy. Locals spend whole afternoons in hundred-year-old teahouses, ears cleaned and mahjong tiles clicking, and the city treats that as productivity. Add the research base where pandas are raised, Sichuan cuisine at its fiery source, and easy access to sacred mountains — this is where travelers slow down without meaning to.
What we never skip
Teahouse olympics
Long-spout tea pouring, ear-cleaning masters, and an unbeatable people-watching seat in People's Park.
Pandas at breakfast
Early entry at the research base, when the cubs are awake and the crowds are not.
Fire, mastered
A Sichuan cooking class that starts in the spice market and ends at your own wok.
Experiences in Chengdu
Medicinal Cuisine Table (Yaoshan)药膳
A restaurant where the menu is prescribed like a gentle tonic — herbs, soups, and seasons matched to how you actually feel.
A long lunch
Sichuan Wok Class川菜
From spice market to flaming wok: mapo tofu and twice-cooked pork, learned properly and eaten proudly.
Half day
Herbal Footbath & Tea Medicine足浴
The Sichuan version of unwinding: a proper herbal footbath, tea prescribed to your evening, and zero plans afterward.
An evening
Themes here: Food & Tea · Wellness & Healing · Cultural Immersion
Journeys through Chengdu
Chengdu Slow
Chengdu
The art of taking it easy, learned properly: hundred-year teahouses, pandas at breakfast, a wok class, and an herbal footbath evening.
Monthly, March–November
from US$1,180
The Wellness Route
Beijing · Chengdu · Hangzhou
Our signature long journey for the restorative traveler: TCM in Beijing, Sichuan's slow arts in Chengdu, tea and temple practice in Hangzhou — with all the great sights between.
Monthly, April–October
from US$3,480