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![The Leshan Giant Buddha carved into the cliff above the river](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/9fd92c06a251.webp)

Leshan · One day, booked on its own

# A boat, a barber, *and a wok of tea*

Nine hours: the seventy-one metre Buddha from the water, a five-hundred-year-old town where the blacksmith is still trading, and a tea family who put your hands over their own hot wok.

- Where: Leshan, and the hills behind it · Southern Sichuan · 2.5 hours from Chengdu
- How long: About 9 hours · Hotel pickup 7:30–8:30 am
- The shape: Buddha → town → tea farm · 40 minutes between the first two
乐山 茶山

LyrikTrip · a standalone full-day experience

## Stone*& Leaf*

- 9 hours
- Hotel to hotel
- UNESCO listed
- Tea you picked and fired

## What you get

### What nine hours *actually buys you*

### You'll see

- The **71-metre Buddha** from a boat — the only angle the whole figure fits into
- A town five hundred years old where the **blacksmith, bamboo weaver and barber** are all still open
- The inside of a hundred-year-old courtyard house, because its owner invites you in
- Tea terraces the family actually harvests, not a demonstration plot

### You'll taste

- **Local lunch in the town**, included, ordered by your guide
- Tea in the town's old teahouse, poured by whoever is running it that day
- Three or four teas side by side at the farmhouse — **the family compares them to wine**
- The one you fired yourself, brewed within the hour

### You'll hear

- The courtyard owner's account of his own house — he'd rather tell you than have anyone else
- The farmer explaining which bud, and why this week and not next
- Why bagged tea is not, in this family's view, tea

### You'll take home

- **A bag of the tea you picked and fired**
- The trick of judging a leaf by smell
- Pictures of a working town that has no ticket gate

## Act I — Three movements

![A wooden shopfront hung with bamboo ware in a Sichuan old town](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/7b1201706f94.webp)

![Tea terraces stepping down a hillside](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/ff3860bde888.webp)

![Misty green ridges behind the tea country](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/713388f75967.webp)

Almost everyone who comes to Leshan sees the Buddha and drives home. *That is about two hours of a nine-hour day.*

Forty minutes inland there is a town five hundred years old that modernisation simply did not get to.

And above the town, the tea. *Not a demonstration plot — the field the family actually harvests.*

## 01 — From the water

![Guests in life jackets on the boat with the Giant Buddha behind them](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/d3ddbf4a258e.webp)

大佛

08:30 The boat, not the stair

### Seventy-one metres, in one frame

UNESCO listed · the cliff stair is not included, on purpose

The cliff stair gives you his face and a two-hour queue. The boat gives you the whole figure at once — the proportions, the scale of the ears, the way he is set into the cliff at the meeting of three rivers. We take the boat. Climbing the Buddha is deliberately not in this day.

## 02 — Still working

![A blacksmith's shop hung with tools](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/2f4322df5477.webp)

老作坊

11:40 Three trades, all open

### The blacksmith, the bamboo, the barber

A blacksmith's shop · a bamboo workshop · a barber's

Three workshops on one street, and all three are working businesses rather than displays. The forge with its wall of tools. The bamboo shop where the baskets are stacked to the ceiling. And a barber's with a straight razor and a queue of regulars, which is the one that surprises people most.

## 03 — Somebody's house

![Guests sitting with local residents in an old courtyard](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/cef9b2384776.webp)

老院子

12:20 A hundred years old

### The owner would rather tell you himself

Tea in the old teahouse · then into a private courtyard

You take tea in the town's old teahouse first, which is where the conversations start. Then you go into one of the hundred-year-old courtyard houses — not a museum, a home, whose owner is proud of it and would rather explain it to you than have someone else do it. Lunch is local and in the town.

## 04 — The field

![Two people picking tea among the rows](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/11ad59a758b5.webp)

采茶

14:00 With the farmer

### Which bud, and why that one

Sprouts and buds · weather · why region changes everything

The farmer walks you into the rows and explains what he is actually looking for — which sprout, which bud, why this week and not next, how weather and region change what the same plant produces. Then you pick, badly at first, into a basket. It is harder to do well than it looks and that is the point of doing it.

## 05 — The wok

![An elderly woman firing tea over a wood-fired stove](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/3888c2cc26a2.webp)

制茶

15:10 At the family's stove

### Bare hands, on hot iron

The tea business family · every type, one process at a time

The family that runs this as a business shows you how the different teas are actually made — the same leaf becoming different things depending on what is done to it and when. Then you get your hands over the wok. There is no thermometer anywhere in the building.

## 06 — In front of the house

![An elderly local showing a guest how to judge tea](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/681366d7719a.webp)

品茶

16:10 Sit down

### Like wine, and they will tell you so

Sitting in front of the farmhouse · more stories than tea

You sit down outside the farmhouse and drink through what has been made. The family's own comparison is to wine: there are cabernets and pinots in tea too, and once someone puts three cups in front of you the argument makes itself. This is the part of the day that runs long, and nobody minds.

## Why the day is shaped like this

![An elderly man in a conical hat carrying a shoulder pole through the town](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/fbd220e7d8d8.webp)

Nine hours, and only two of them are famous

### The Buddha is the reason you came. *It is not the reason you'll remember it.*

Leshan is a two-hour stop for almost everybody: boat, photograph, drive back. The county behind it keeps more pre-modern buildings and more working trades than Chengdu does, and virtually nobody routes through it.

So this day gives the Buddha its hour on the water and then spends the remaining seven somewhere with no ticket gate — a barber, a bamboo weaver, someone's courtyard, and a hillside where a family makes their living from the same plant their grandparents did.

Guests who book it for the Buddha come back talking about the courtyard.

## The day, unrolled

### What the nine hours are made of

Stone · workshop · leaf · wok

![Guests with the Giant Buddha behind](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/14a103c96aa6.webp)

**The cliff**乐山大佛 · carved into the rock face

![A bamboo workshop full of baskets](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/3b7144fd4199.webp)

**The bamboo shop**竹编 · stacked to the ceiling

![A guest at the old barber shop](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/394370deb11b.webp)

**The barber**剃头铺 · straight razor, regulars

![Guests at a workshop bench](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/10637eaf244d.webp)

**Hands on**作坊 · you are allowed to try

![Guests with tea baskets in the field](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/5cc90d83af9e.webp)

**The baskets**茶篓 · yours to fill

![Fresh tea buds in a hand](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/37e668f43e3f.webp)

**One bud**茶芽 · this one, not that one

![A guest turning tea leaves in a hot wok](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/26f43c6c9b86.webp)

**The wok**杀青 · no thermometer

![A guest holding up a tea leaf](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/90bf307ad719.webp)

**The proof**成茶 · you take some home

![The Giant Buddha seen from the river](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/95fe718315d6.webp)

**From the water**江上 · the only view that fits

![Tiled roofs of the old town](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/428bf112830a.webp)

**The roofs**老镇 · five hundred years

![A guest in the tea field](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/8f73874cd445.webp)

**In the rows**茶田 · a guest, mid-pick

![Guests below the Buddha's head](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/0de4b496400a.webp)

**Under his head**大佛 · for scale

![Inside a traditional workshop](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/b0ac41ee3611.webp)

**Inside a workshop**作坊 · still trading

## Practicalities

- Duration: About 9 hours
- Pickup: Your hotel, 7:30–8:30 am
- Drive: 2.5 hours to the Buddha · 40 minutes on to the town
- Included: Transport all day · the Buddha boat · old town walk · family and courtyard visit · local lunch · tea plantation
- Not included: Climbing the Buddha · gratuities
- Heritage: UNESCO listed
- Guide: English-speaking, throughout
- Group: Private
## End card

![The confluence of three rivers below Leshan](https://cdn.lyriktrip.com/s/7dd01d156733.webp)

### Book *the day*

One day, hotel to hotel, on its own. Tell us a date and we'll confirm the boat and the tea family.

[**Start planning](/contact)

## Sources

**资料与图片来源 · Sources**

文字与行程全部依据 U2Panda 产品文件：2.5 小时车程至大佛、乘船观佛、40 分钟车程进古镇、铁匠铺／竹编作坊／剃头铺、老茶馆喝茶、进百年老院听主人讲、上山随茶农采茶、访制茶人家、约 9 小时、7:30–8:30 酒店接、**不含登山与小费**——均出自该文件。

**本页 20 张照片直接取自 U2Panda 产品文件 *BT U2Panda — Giant Buddha & Tea Terrace In Lost Town 1 Day Tour***，是供应商自己的运营实拍 —— 真实的客人、真实的作坊与灶台。

已获授权使用：供应商（U2Panda）实拍的对外使用权已确认。

2026-08 换图与授权

- 乐山三江汇流（sl-sup-river）—— 三江相会二江口，gdczjkk · CC BY 3.0
- 犍为清溪古镇（sl-sup-town）—— Nyx Ning · CC BY-SA 3.0

以上列表中若干图库条目已在 2026-08 的换图中被取代，保留仅作历史记录；当前实际使用的图片以本节列出的为准。