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Tour agencies and guides

    1 Tray Lee 0139/08035353 lee@rt98.com The best independent guide in Chengdu, Tray Lee can often be found in Renmin Park (he's not good at answering emails, though). He speaks excellent English, knows Chengdu and Sichuan very well, and has been guiding foreigners around the province for twenty years.

    2 Peptours www.peptours.com Good tour agency, especially for tours of Chengdu, Tibet and Qinghai. Run by a long-time resident Westerner.

    3 Jiaotong (Traffic) Hotel Tour Desks 77 Linjiang Lu, near Xinnanmen bus station 028/85451017 www.traffichotel.com Part- and multi-day packages iSichuan Opera trips (¥80–100); Chengdu's Giant Panda Breeding Research Base (3hr; ¥80); a day-trip to Qingcheng Shan (¥80); four days at Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong (around ¥850); and a three-day package to Siguniang Shan (¥480, excluding horse trekking). Tibet packages should come in below ¥2000 for flights, or ¥1600 for the train.