Sichuan Travel FAQs
General Information
When is the best time to visit Sichuan & Kham?
Due to the complex topography, the weather in Sichuan is diverse that makes the different travel seasons to different areas. Generally, the suitable time to visit most of places in Sichuan is from March to November, especially in the fall season, it is often the most beautiful time throughout the year. For Kham area in Sichuan, April to October is recommended, July and August is the raining season that may cause the landslide in some worse road condition areas, but it is the season to witness many Tibetan festivals.
What to bring if I travel to Sichuan & Kham?
Sichuan is a relatively large province, with very large differences areas, we will provide a list of appropriate travel stuffs depending on your travel types, itineraries and travel areas.
Are credit cards accepted in Sichuan & Kham?
Most major hotels in Sichuan's larger cities will accept major credit cards. Your hotels also can change money for you and ATMs are easy to find. But it is not for the remote or smaller places such as Kham.
Travel & Tours
Do I need travel documents or travel permits for traveling Sichuan & Kham?
For regular tour, it is no need travel permits when you are travelling to Sichuan, Kham and Amdo Tibetan regions in Sichuan. However, the temporary prohibition from the local government may occur without notice due to political reasons, government orders or natural force. Then we will help change the optional route and try our best to avoid the affection of your tours.
Where are your tours going in Sichuan?
Our tours cover anywhere in Sichuan, but mainly offer the off-beaten-track tours in remote or lesser-visited parts for hidden explorations, such as Kham and Amdo Tibetan regions in Sichuan.
What are your Sichuan & Kham tours features?
All of our offerings are built around a passion to create original itinerary and splendid experience, to present you sites with unique insights and hidden traces. Our tours are not fixed on the popular sights, but also demonstrate both breadth and depth with adding new ideas that take you to a journey beneath the surface of the region.
What do you mainly focus on?
Sichuan is rich in both cultural and natural landscapes, as well as ethnic folk customs. Our Sichuan tours are trying to offer a combination of them with an unforgettable travel experience.
Lodging and Dining
What are the accommodations like in Sichuan & Kham?
Main Cities in Sichuan basin and popular travel destinations such as Mt. Emeishan, Dujiangyan and Jiuzhaigou have the reputed or good hotels ranging from budget to luxury. In other lesser cities in Xichang, Yibin, Ya’an and Kangding have hotels at least 3 or 4 star categories. In smaller towns, the hotels are more basic. Further in remote or mountainous towns such as Kham and Amdo, the accommodation is rudimentary or the guest house with dorm bed and outhouse toilet that may be the squatting pot. Sometimes you have to spend night in local family for an experience or limited conditions.
Does the hotel room have access or WIFI to internet?
The internet access or wifi service is available in hotel rooms in some popular or bigger cities or towns, not all, but most of hotels equipped business center where you can use internet service, and this is not for hotels in remote or smaller places.
Is there 24-hour hot water running?
It is no problem for the hotels in bigger cities, but it is not for hotels in mountainous regions or remote places where has the basic condition, sometimes with the poor pressure, the water flow may small and water sometime is not hot but just warm, or the hot water available for a few hours, such as from 7:00pm to 7:00am. In remote area, the condition can be even worse.
What can I eat in Sichuan & Kham?
Sichuan cuisine, is very famous as one of the eight traditional Chinese cuisines. The cuisine here is featured on being spicy and numbing heat. The representative local food include Kung Pao Chicken, Twice Cooked Pork, Mapo Tofu (Stir-Fried Tofu in Hot Sauce), and extremely spicy hot pot. You have wide choices of very tasty Sichuan food all the way including Kham and mountainous areas.
Transportation
Can you reserve the air tickets and train tickets for Sichuan?
Yes, we can help for air tickets and train tickets reservation. The earlier booking, the more guaranteed that is suggested to book the tickets at least 20 days prior to the trip schedule and your scancopied passport front page is required.
What vehicle do you use in Sichuan?
The wide variety of vehicles can be best available for tourists according to the group size, itinerary and road conditions. 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser or Mitsubishi jeep are commonly used in Kham area, as it is capable for the areas involve tough road driving and off road excursions. In Amdo of Sichuan, the road condition is better than Kham, so the jeep or car, van are used here. For the rest part of Sichuan, the road condition is fairly good that make the business van, smaller and medium sized vans to be widely used for the group. Large buses are available for larger groups.