{"id":37629,"date":"2025-12-16T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=37629"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:26:51","slug":"day-12-sichuan-tagong-grassland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2025\/12\/16\/day-12-sichuan-tagong-grassland\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 @ Sichuan &#8211; Tagong Grassland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 12: <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">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 <strong>Tagong Grassland<\/strong>, a vast high-altitude plateau known for its stunning natural beauty \u2014 except that is probably in non-wintering seasons! It was various shades of brown for us when we went by it yesterday and today. Still, I wanted to tick another item off my bucket list: low-pass aerial videos of herds of horses, cattle and such. So, we found two such pastures: one where the actual grassland area is, and another, a smaller farm area where yaks had not yet been freed to wander around the area to graze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was my first time doing a fairly low-pass flight, and there were low cables and poles to avoid. The horses were unperturbed, but a few yaks looked startled by the drone!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yunnan - Western Sichuan 2025 - Day 12 - Tagong Grassland\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sr6i08Y-78A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few quick flights and we were done, and continued on our way to Danba County. Continued in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2025\/12\/16\/day-12-sichuan-tagong-grassland\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Day 12 @ Sichuan &#8211; Tagong Grassland<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-37629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-yunnan-western-sichuan-2025","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/blog-2025-yunnan-day-12-ling-20251216_091801.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38096,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37629\/revisions\/38096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}