Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Day 16: we spent the day at Jiuzhaigou Valley National Park. Short version: try not to visit in winter and/or when it’s a cloudy day, like we did. But if you have to/unavoidable because of MOE school holidays or the
After 14 days of hustling around, our Day 15 was very sedate in comparison: we checked out of Somerset Riverview Chengdu early morning, then used Didi to get a ride to Chengdu East Railway Station for our 8:36AM departing train
We stayed for single nights at a number of properties this trip. Here’s a consolidated summary of the places we stayed at and quick notes. Chongcao Hotel Litang Mid-sized hotel that from the exterior looks like one of those 1990s-esque
During our itinerary planning months ago, we had to shorten our initially planned itinerary of 14 days to 13 on account of the flight timings we’d booked. That meant that a visit to the Wolong Panda Reserve on our way
Our last day in Western Sichuan and a conclusion of the second of three segments of this trip. We spent the morning at Shuangqiao Valley at Mt. Siguniang Scenic Area. After our exploration of Changping Valley yesterday, we were expecting
We’re finally coming to an end of the Western Sichuan segment of our trip. We said goodbye to Danba River Valley early morning and drove in an easterly direction the 112km to the Mt. Siguniang Scenic Area where we’d be
We continued towards Danba county after leaving Tagong Grassland, and the two hour drive from there took us on roads through tight valleys with towering mountains on both sides. We reached Danba just after noon, and were treated to complimentary
Day 12: We left Xinduqiao this morning and continued driving northwards another 150km to Danba County, an area deep in Tibetan Valleys. Early on though, we stopped by Tagong Grassland, a vast high-altitude plateau known for its stunning natural beauty
Day 11: we checked out of our Litang accommodation early morning and started on another long drive of 200km towards Xinduqiao. We’d already been traveling on the famed China National Highway 318 or G318 for several days now. G318 is
Day 10: we had a major change in our itinerary: after the physically exhausting trek through Yading Nature Reserve yesterday where the wife and son really struggled along the trail at 4,000m altitude, we dropped the second day visit to
We stayed at the Daocheng Jifeng Hot Springs Resort Hotel from Days 08 to 10: our fourth hotel so far this trip, and also the only one so far that has all the trappings of a modern 4 star establishment.
Day 09 turned out to tbe most physically strenous day so far in this trip: our planned itinerary allocated 1.5 days to Yading Nature Reserve, a Tibetan plateau sanctuary in Sichuan. You know the area itself is huge when it
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