We went to this summer we are most interested in the territory of Sichuan Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong line. Back and forth a total of 11 days. Spent a total of 1,200 yuan per person. Our circuit design and others are different. There is no turning back. By 2097 times [Zhengzhou to Chengdu] on the train from Luoyang, in the first major stations into Sichuan Guangyuan off. Guangyuan, all the way from the local long-distance car ride to Jiuzhaigou. Only two of us tourists on board, feel different. Among them, Jiuzhaigou played two and half days. On horseback from the Songpan Munigou the two sea days. Chartered to Huanglong day. Sanxingdui went in Chengdu, plus food and shopping, two and half days. 40 hours on the train. Long-distance car 17 hours.
D1-2 train to Guangyuan in the morning when a fast 6:00. As before departure did not know Guangyuan to Jiuzhaigou shuttle points, where to ride. Be able to catch up, but was not really the end. Guangyuan train station built in? Jiang's side. Out of station walk 10 minutes across the bridge, the bridge is a bus station below. Bus station manager, dressed in a see us up asking us where to go then. We are saddened to learn Guangyuan not have a car to Jiuzhaigou. That a fixed-line bus of. But that is the past tense. In the following further inquiries, because of obstacles and names a little dialect barriers, we decided to go back to railway station. That near six, seven travel agencies. We would like to try riding. Iron Brigade to a question, the boss ride asking price 280 yuan per person. Far off the mark. We turned and went away. A good-hearted folks, or travel agents to suggest that we take a taxi to the Po Lun, to see where the hair can catch up with the car. Can not keep up because of fear of vehicles, taxi drivers Kanjia peers and, when an anxious, theory has played a Sichuan dialect. Ting Xiang's. Only later in Sichuan these days, could no longer find any kind of a mouthful Sichuan felt. Chartered 40. About thirty or forty kilometers bar. Opened with more than 30 minutes. Po Lun does have to Jiuzhaigou car, about 6:00 in. There time was 8:00 of the. Fortunately, we can catch up with this tour. Po Lun to Jiuzhaigou County, fare 60. In fact, if we know in advance if this situation can Guangyuan Guangyuan of that bus ride to the Po Lun's car, 5 yuan per person.
8:01 into the car they can not. Because only sold four tickets. It seems too few people take this line, let alone tourists. Therefore, the station transferred to the Po Lun us to Wen County car. Along the way there is a white water river has always been with us. Passing places have Bikou. Traffic is not very good. On both sides of the mountain light Dodo's. In particular, to the county after the text. Wen County in Gansu Province. By Wen County. We again changed hands to the driver of a car-breaking. The car designed to run the text to the Nanping county [ie Jiuzhaigou County, the last two years did not change it's name to keep us in a pit. I have not marked on the map of China do. ] However, the car was known as the Lei Feng car show companions. Because of its stop-go. Take along the way things [live fish, department stores, brew their own wine, cooking utensils], take along one [apart from the ongoing short-haul passengers, as well as ride the road work]. Drivers with all sorts of people greeting: the roadside shops, homes, road work. Almost every long-distance truck drivers in the past, he knew that they must be stopped in the middle of the road talking on a little while. Fortunately, no cars on this road, nor did the police uncle. In fact, this road is poor road conditions, poor roadside villages. Apart from lamenting Fortunately, he did not born in such a peasant family.
17 o'clock, when it began more than light rain. Fortunately, to the boundary of Nanping, the road got much better. On both sides of the mountains and green up. Nanping, only two blocks from a small town. But already we can see along the way apart from Guangyuan, the most prosperous place. Also many of the girls on the street again. Dress neatly, and even bright. Street inside, we looked for a street of the old hotel, double room 10 yuan per person. A lack of bathing in public rooms.
After a rest, we stroll in the town. Half an hour sure to visit all. Our attention to the places where hotels, restaurants. Room and board along the highway to be high in many of the hotels. Town has a small supermarket, two Internet cafes. Is not a good environment for Internet cafes. There is smoke, playing games, light Pianan. 3,4 blocks an hour. I also visited the vegetable market.
D3-5 the next morning, out of a small street full of hotels and other business, van, taxi. To Jiuzhaigou Mizoguchi 10 yuan per person. This section of the road repair very well. More than 40 minutes to go.
One looked, all the team. Visitors into the ditch in waiting. The square in front of the room and our walk. Only into the ditch before the toilet so I waited a long time. Later, the ditch, the majority of cases, had to queue up to be convenient.
Ticket hall, came in ahead of us are people who took out a thousand dollars, so that ticket money and ticket lady stop locations. According to online Shouji, we bought a half-price tickets and 3 yuan insurance [voluntary purchase] 60 yuan per person, and declare that we have to walk into the ditch. Check-in staff is also very different on this day, Qi Baqian tourists in a rare self-help tourists hit ours.
The season was also a large number of benefits. You can fish in troubled waters. Check-in if people can not work check our documents. Eco-car you do not want on the front and back of the people will squeeze up to you. The first day, we rub when the car has been worried that someone will be checked. Later revealed that there was no need. Crowds of people waiting for a train, the car is what the concept, imagine that in a big city by bus and cars on the clogged situation seat grab bar. On one occasion, vehicle scheduling is not timely, we are witnessing the tourists "riot" - points to the middle of the road to prevent vehicular traffic.
To add that, green cars are not waving the stops on the next to lie under. Season, many people, the general license in order to get on the train to leave the station.
Trench from the eco-car to unify operations, may be mainly for the convenience of management, and for those day trips of tourists [to Jiuzhaigou mostly with the group of tourists] to save time. Is environmentally friendly, I think not. Trench on the road most of the noise, dust and smoke came from these green cars. We do not particularly suitable for walking on two legs in the self-help among the tourists attractions. Because the high frequency of green cars on the grid [are said to have more than 200 vehicles], the speed may from time to slow. In the narrow roads, car one, we have to step aside to avoid. While watching the team full of tourists take a green car of a passing, but we are free to walk was very proud, from time to time, the noise and stirring up the dust gave left a bad impression. Moreover, the tourists so accustomed to green vehicles such as cars line will miss a lot of fun walking landscape taste.
Before we have planned to live in the groove. Although the Jiuzhaigou Administration only recently that prevents stay in the groove, we arrived Mizoguchi, it was dried lotus leaf chai to the hotel owner to find. Such as ours, it alone may be too few visitors bar. So many visitors, he went so far as one noticed us. Has also been price, the double room with bathroom 50 yuan a night. First night room with hot water shower. The second night did not burn hot water, had their own pot used to ask a few feet of water bubbles. In addition, the shrewd boss also provide meals. Dinner [lunch and dinner] 15 yuan per person. 2 people say, there are two with a meat dish, a vegetarian, a tomato egg soup, rice is a casual Tim. Taste and no Internet so the famous horror. & Deli, but it can not expect very good. In his family to the yard to eat leisurely, it is quite comfortable. 5 yuan per person breakfast, eggs, bread, porridge and pickles. Dai Ledian our own convenience foods, and thus did not eat at that.
Landscapes do, in addition to a long time we went to the direction of the sea, the other two groove we have gone back and forth twice. Each duo roadside flowers I have been on him. My favorite place is the group tree is the sea, Wu Huahai, Wucaiche. Quiet, blue lines, and constantly changing water. I use the NIKON fool machines, photo effects can be, but does not truly restore I have witnessed many blue, faint purple, a green Mama lake. And that sense of color can only immersive experience. Peer favorite read is the flow of water. Tree is Falls, Snow Falls on Lang. . . Pearl Beach is its favorite.
Tree is the sea along the highway could be a good group to look at Panorama. The other side of trying to fix the bonsai tree is to the beach Plank Road. We did not fix along the Plank Road has gone again. From this perspective, can see some of these Haizi detail and their other side.
Jiuzhaigou as covet your neighbor's water color, plus hear the latest Jiuzhaigou to Songpan the car is 3 am, and 14:30 on the fifth day out we groove. Braving the scorching sun, from Mizoguchi to the right [to Nanping direction] walk 15 minutes to pass the hotel is located in nine Jiuzhaigou terminal. One asked, disaster. Mizoguchi Jiuzhaigou to Songpan not have a car. Where only sell to Chengdu and Mianyang car. Go to Songpan car is Nanping granted and to be hailed intersection. Two classes and a day in the morning 7:00, 1:00. We all can not keep up the. Had to think of a way back to Mizoguchi. A way out no more than two: ride, and chartered. Chartered 150-180 yuan. However, we chartered around the search companion, you can see they are all guided led, and with the mission. Like ours, and rare. Even favorite self-help are also faceless foreigners. Wondered how we would so alone. Hard to find a lone sister, and she want to go to Chengdu. Ride is more trouble, and asked several tour guides, said seat is full, sorry, not help. Found a faster two-hour, and we still did not give up. Console each other, we do not rush. Big deal to go back to live in Nanping. Heaven always leaves people a way out. Each time a self-help travel encounter an unexpected situation. A chartered tours from Beijing unit of the organization because it is tourism, there are two vacancies, willing to accept us. Take us to the Chuanzhusi. Many teams have arranged to live in that. Chuanzhusi only half an hour away from the Songpan, go there much easier to obtain other vehicles. 4:30, we are happy to sit in a large coach the final in a row. 2 hours later, according to point to the Chuanzhusi. Later, on the minibus. The locals are 5 yuan per person. Driver 7 yuan to each of us. Because it's getting dark, and some people warned us not inclined to quarrel, and the locals. We are also no more bargaining.
My car was parked in a "loose state" plaque in front of the city. Next to "happy trails" amiable Jiang cavalry. Two cavalry facade of a grocery store next to the compartment. Their upstairs is along the river Inn. Boss pungent, smart. Later, the groom told us that she had a man's character. [Original words have been slightly modified].
The car, two cavalry competition began. Earlier, we have chosen some of the famous "happy trails." Wanted to ride to Huanglong, was told that line too hard, it is better to go by car. The results of the two into the sea to the Munigou a two-day tour. The cost of riding up a number, 80 yuan per person per day.
Living in the caravan traffic across the hotel. 10 yuan per person double room, bed and a table, apart from nothing, but simple and clean. Neighbors is basically self-tour of the foreigner. Fixed and opening up the public shower at night, and sometimes subject to change. So, from time to time to ask Debu. Fortunately, the hotel manager and good, attitudes of the attendants.
D6-7 8:30, we waited in the "happy trail" simple office. 9 o'clock, Colts set out. Will be accompanied by a Du Xingke. He was not much larger than we are. There are a pair of Americans. At first I could not see, thinking that they are students. Only later did I know that they have several of the 30. Alex has 40 of them faster. 5 groom, together with our total of 10 horses. Set out. Excited.
Three times before riding a horse, or the presence of house, or in grasslands, time is not long. This is the first horse crosses back. Cautious I really a bit worried. Riding down the mountain on the sense of truly unique. Know the horse from anxiety, tenacity, a little bit naughty. It is know the way, know where you'll be drinking water; sometimes pulling point of roadside wildflowers to eat. We have also shed a river, feeling so cool. I immediately or before V or recline, or Dangling, in fact, has been still very careful. Although it is not because the mountain roadside cliff, but that kind of high-slope fall to go no better to go. May be because of my care, my foot has been placed on the stirrup. Dismount the middle of a break, my knee pain. Had never been. After a week riding faster, and Hai Teng. [The strange thing is back on the train, there is a do not know how to on the hurt knee had. ]
The time on the road every day is about 6 hours, no need to hurry. In the immediate 4 hours. The middle section of bad road need to walk 1 hour.
To the two sea, groom then erected a tent on the hillside, mowing horses, light a fire for cooking. We are a leisurely sat on the grass and chat. Because no language barriers, we and Alex that they can talk a lot of topics, such as in the United States and China, and so the difference between self-tour travel horizons. Alex on China, or some not meet many people. Especially when we go so far as the mountains there is the flow of people.
He was referring to Jiuzhaigou. 2 should quiet many of the sea. Jiuzhaigou Scenic far less [water shortages this year, about half of the Haizi have withered in], but few people a day, down, in addition to riding the two teams [the other team is inhabited almost exclusively by foreigners], there are seven or eight locals . But also the rustic charm. I examined them to counted, there are a dozen colored wildflowers.
In fact, two sea should be called Cold Spring Hot Springs, about 22 degrees. Spring can have 30 degrees. Foreigners is very excited and jumped into an open-air and all of that. Then simply became mud pond. I now think of them around the spring pool houses in the mud, the photograph looks like wanted to laugh. Next to the wooden house that fell on the pond is necessary to clean more. But everyone who coincidentally have the water cold calling. I did not bring bathing suits, but also afraid of the cold, there is no go. Sat next to, looking at them, and quite good fun.
The grass eaten dinner, chat in our days gradually dark. Followed by lower temperature down. Groom had lit a bonfire. I wore a sweater, sitting campfire, but also think back cool. Put on the robes, much better. This is the time to sing a pity that our group of people that will not work. They had no choice but to listen to groom sang. Usually very little to the Kara OK not think what would happen. This was a song to sing when Fanghen Shao. This time riding, but to remember the all the songs are singing over again. To go horseback riding must be a singing. In the mountains the mountains to sing, how to sing nicely natural feel. Kara OK should not be equated with the total.
The first tent to sleep feeling very good, cold and hard, can not stand up. Fortunately, there is a sky full of the stars and the horses grazing ringtones companionship.
Pimps are very dedicated. Were also very good. Not much, but the loud, resonant voice all the way plateau.
The next day more than two in the afternoon returned to the Songpan. Riding side effect is back pain. Some of severe skin raw. In addition, this place is not my mistake with a sunscreen. Because in the past to the northwest, the sun is very strong, no tan what. The fact that I do not like greasy sunscreen feeling. This time, their heads hats, long-sleeved pants, just back of the hand nowhere to hide, the results of a few hours under the sun sunburn in Jiu Ji. Such as burns, like burning in pain. Exposure of that skin color clearly increased faster. Older brother who accompanied a longer exposure time, his face has started peeling. Terror wow. We owe foreigners sunscreen SPF index 30, the face is also slightly reddening.
The remaining time in Songpan town stroll Yau. Every gate we have reached. Went to the mosque. See the Internet cafes. [Even the most expensive money to one hour to 6]. As usual, met with the vegetable market, I am sure to enter the. Bought a radish [right when the fruit], and mushrooms. Special buy those colors of the wild strain [2-4 yuan / jin], know where to do so, were dropped. There are jewelry processing shop. Zang Min, according to boss said the manual processing of a belt it costs 200 yuan.
Stroll up the street is a tourist souvenir shops. Companion special to buy knives. Do not fancy, it is necessary and practical kind. Did not expect was a small slaughter knife. Ai Zai would also like to pay for the feeling of knowing that, let me heck. "Happy trail" to help the boss get a yak head companion. 15 yuan. Because the processing time is not long enough, there is more emphasis on taste. Was told would also like to go back and soaked with lime.
Night kebab selling the most loud in what Chi Yang dishes, drinking beer, Blue Sword. Where the string is not Jia Zi Ran Mutton. Quite tender.
Songpan and Lijiang to compare, I would prefer some of Lijiang. More the size of the ancient city of Lijiang, cleaner. Songpan of flies could be seen everywhere.
D8 package car Huanglong. Many taxi. Was too late at night as arranged, you can get up earlier. 7:00 or so, the car on the street and other businesses opened in the back and forth. Go back and forth general Huanglong 150-180 yuan. We and others rented, each 45. Huanglong is still a good way to go, but there is still some repair. Bend more. Slow drivers to be careful. Sheung Jin Shan did not take long, they played a heavy fog, to Huanglong, when it began to drizzle. The first day, Huanglong is still sunny, hot not do it. In respect of every other day we have to rent clothes Huanglong.
Huanglong half-price tickets for 40 yuan, checking documents, check borne.
Jiuzhaigou Huanglong water and not the same. The water color of a rich Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong, the water clear bottomed out, mostly light blue, aeruginous, and grass green. Calcification of the top pool of white calm. Yunnan, Zhongdian, than I have seen the size of most of the Naxi sacred baishuitai. Huanglong is about 8 km from the park back and forth. Calcification of the "Yellow Dragon" winds of nearly 4 km. As the first two days of riding, or less fatigue, coupled with its elevation of more than 3,000 Huanglong, a few people still need help from the oxygen bag, we are moving slower pace. We have spent 5 hours Huanglong. When we hooked down beside a few rain forests mining ran out of mushrooms.
Temporary out of time to see the 56 large stones carrying road workers are going up, shouting chant. I'm struck by their rhythmic chant sound moved. Eyes a little bit hot. The mountain next to the person sitting in a sedan chair carried by bearers asked how far, less than one-tenth bearers Answer.
D9 am 6:00 beside the car in traffic hotel Zhanshang Ju, to Chengdu. Fare 50. Buses, a TV. A car who 7,8 a foreigner. The majority of them come on horseback. I do not know why they have people interested in Jiuzhaigou Huanglong not interested. May be worried about being multi-bar!
Weeks on the road put a star of "Shaolin Soccer." From time to time in the laughter. Foreigners can not read bar.
Car opened 9 hours. On the road for half an hour break to eat. 1 hour traffic jam. Along the way the driver to fully enjoy a moment of Sichuan chef's driving skills and courage. Min River and next to a cliff, then the narrow road, often overtaking the master.
D10 to visit the mysterious Sanxingdui.
D11 afternoon return journey by train. Because it is peak tourist season, sleeper tickets booked in advance. Chengdu Railway Station, ticket brokers openly, on the ticket window before trading. Row of a 40-minute team, did not buy on the sleeper. Was better to invite a friend to help buy Chengdu.
Author: blazingtang
