The panda sanctuary is amazing. I’d put that one at the top of the list. You’ll wanna show up early for it, and make sure you use the line for foreigners instead of wasting time in the normal line only to find out you’re in the wrong place.

After that, the museums in Chengdu are amazing and worth checking out. I can definitely recommend the Chengdu Museum and the Jinsha Site Museum, but there may be other cool ones like the Science and Technology Museum. I think you need WeChat to make an appointment most places so see if you can get a local to help you if you don’t have WeChat already.

Go to a hotpot place also. The food in Chengdu is phenomenal and you should definitely try as much as you can. I think Chuanxi Bazi was one of the places I went to that was especially awesome, but there are tons, including some that are exclusively vegetarian.

Also almost forgot the Anshun Bridge is really cool and there’s a really great nightlife street alongside it full of bars and clubs with lives bands and lots of other stuff going on.