CE-ET-11
Itinerary:
D1 Chengdu / Huanglong / Jiuzhaigou (Lunch)
Your Chengdu tour starts from Chengdu today, the guide from we will send you to Shuangliu airport, and then you will fly to Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong Airport, meet another guide there. It is a flight of 50 minutes only, but you will move from sea level 500 meters of Chengdu to 3448 meters of Huanglong airport, don’t worry for it, most of the people can be acclimated very quickly, and if you do feel difficult, you can buy some oxygen to deal with.
Your tour guide will take you to
Huanglong Nation Park directly, which is about 40 minutes’ driving in mountain road from airport to Huanglong. Lunch will be arranged either at airport or foot of Huanglong Mountain accordingly, depending on the arrival time. After the lunch, you will hike from the 3070 meter of gate to 3558 meters of Huanglong temple in 2 hours. Just enjoy the alphine mountain forest and colorful calcified lakes en route. And eventually we will arrive at the Wucaichi Lake.
And then you will descend the mountain in the late afternoon for about 1 hour’s hiking, and then head for Zhangza town close to Jiuzhaigou valley. It is about 2 hour’s driving, but you can enjoy the exotic view of Tibetan villages and nature en route if you are not tired enough for a nap in the car.
D2 Jiuzhaigou Excursion
Get up in the early morning today, and then go with your guide to the gate of
Jiuzhaigou National park. And there you will exchange local environment protection bus to visit the long valleys.
The Y-shapted Jiuzhaigou valley actually are consisted of 3 long valleys: Shuzheng valley, Rize valley and Zezha valley. In each of the valley, many beautiful lakes, waterfalls, rivers and virgin forest are scattered. Local Tibetan granted each of them romandic names, such as Panda Sea, Pearl Sea, Long Sea, etc, and these lakes shining like jade, pearl in the mountain and forest. Jiuzhaiogou valley could be the best gift from our nature, and it deserves the fame of Fairy Land on the earth!
we always wanted to introduce unique local culture to our clients, besides beautiful nature, there are also nine Tibet villages, which Jiuzhaigou got its name from it, your guide will give you a lecture of Tibetan culture too when visit these villages.
Just follow your guide to visit the 3 valleys one by one, enjoying the interesting tales about the villages and lakes. And a simple buffet lunch will be arranged in Lorilang restaurant.
In the late afternoon you will exit the valleys and return hotel for dinner.
D3 Jiuzhaigou / Rorgai Grassland / Tangke Yellow River (Breakfast, Lunch)
It will be an overland tour today, your guide will take you up the Tibetan plateau of Rorgai grassland. You will visit
Flower Lake firstly in the morning. It is a large wet land with a beautiful lake, a lot of wild birds and flowers find their paradise here.
The flat and wide
Rorgai grassland covered the earth and is looked like a green carpet under the blue sky, and the back paved highway crossed on the carpet and is leading us to the end of sky. Tibetan villages and yaks add much vitality on this carpet. Please get away from all of the worries when you are travelling in such beautiful land!
In the afternoon, drive from Flower Lake to Langmusi Town to stay the night.
D4 Langmusi Horse Riding (Lunch)
We set out from Langmusi at 10 a.m. along the White Dragon River. Two hours later, we will arrive at the entrance of the 'Xiu're' valley which is a small summer rangeland. Some Tibetan families live in this rangeland and we will have lunch with one family. The main dishes are normal food and also you can taste the traditional Tibetan cake ('tsampa') and yoghurt ('sho').
After lunch, we will continue horse-riding to get the source area of the White Dragon River. Then return back to Langmusi the same way. This trek will take approximately 6 hours.
D5 Langmusi / Chengdu
Today you’ll be taken back to Chengdu from Langmusi. Firstly, take vehicle to Jiuzhaigou. Then, fly to Chengdu.