Big Buddha Mountain Martial Art Culture Countryside Private Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Foshan

  Your 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.

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2

  Upon 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.

  2 hours • Admission ticket not included
• 3

  View 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.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4

  After 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.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 5

  If 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.

  2 hours • Admission ticket not included
• 6

  And 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.

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 7

  It'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.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8

  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.

  2 hours • Admission ticket not included

Additional info

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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