Five Colors Lake Huanglong # Sichuan - China

Today, we will visit 黄龙 Huanglong. Actually, I didn't have any imaginary about 黄龙 Huanglong before, but because it's included in the trip, so we just go there. And surely, I won't regret it.

It is one of UNESCO Heritage Site, altitude between 1700m-5588m.

We have to walk around 2-3 hours to go the peak, actually you can ride cable car to go up but the cable car station is not the same as the car parking. So usually, travel agent didn't suggest it.

The view from the entrance to the peak is surely beautiful.

But just as reminder, please go to trekking first until the peak, and enjoy the scene while you go down. Otherwise, you won't make it to the peak.

We will see this building before continue trekking.

Then the road is going up, but the view in the front is very beautiful. I think, we walk at the old path of Huanglong.

There's a Five Colors Lake 五彩池 wu cai chi in the peak. You will arrive in a temple as entrance to the lake.

Finally, we arrive at Five Colors Lake. It's very beautiful.

After take some photos, we go down using the new path. The new path has the good road, which we can enjoy the scene while go down / up. And there's a waterfall too.

Going down is faster than to go up. Fortunately, we have more than 4 hours in here. One day, surely I want to go back here, maybe in different season.

Ohh, don't forget, maybe some of you will need additional oxygen tube because the air is very thin. And the location is very high.

Beautiful Jiuzhaigou, you have to visit this place at least 1 time in your life # Sichuan - China

Finally, we will visit the famous 九寨沟 Jiuzhaigou today. The guide and driver pick us at the hotel, then we go to 九寨沟 Jiuzhaigou National Park.

Wo go around using Jiuzhaigou Shuttle Bus and the guide will always follow us. At first, we go to the farthest. From the entrance to the farthest, we saw many beautiful lake.

Actually, I didn't pay attention to the name of each lake and attraction place. But every lake and stop point is very beautiful. It's just, we go there when Wuyi Holiday so there's so many people. But Jiuzhaigou is very beautiful, so it's worth to visit.

I went there in spring (early May). I heard that in autumn, the scenery is very beautiful. I hope next time I could go there again in Autumn.

Arrived at Chengdu then ride bus to Jiuzhaigou # Sichuan - China

We arrived at Chengdu at midnight. Then we check-in to Hotel. We only sleep for few hours, then in the morning, wake up then eat breakfast then ride bus to Jiuzhaigou. It took approximately 11 hours journey.

We, 18 people, plus 3 Koren friends and the guide. Feels the bus is us, so we can call is our private tour.

The weater is cool at Chengdu, because it's early spring. We passed the river, mountain and cliff.

At first, we still can see river and the green tree.

As time goes by, we going uphill and it become colder. We can see snow in the peak.

It's cold but beautiful. Around the road was cliff. So the driver has to be extra careful. It's slippery too because of snow.

Finally we arrived at Jiuzhaigou. We eat dinner at one of Jiuzhaigou People's house while enjoy their singing and dancing. The famous food in here is lamb meat 羊肉 and Yak Meat (kind of cow) 牛肉 with famous spicy powder, Mala 麻辣 from Sichuan..

Mala Powder

Then they teach us to dance. We all follow the dance and wear some local costume. It's fun, especially I went there with my best friends.

After that, we back to hotel to take a rest.