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Songpan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Songpan, China
Heaven on the Tour from Hell!!!
This is a top pick! C... Unable to make our minds up about taking a trip to Tibet or not, we decided to try something a bit different and cheaper instead - a tour to Juizhaigou in North Sichuan. Described as a "Fairyland" with Tibeten culture and scenery, we thought we ...
Horse trekking in the Sichuan mountains
This is a top pick! ... months I feel cold in my T-shirt. Eight bum numbing hours later, the bus drops us off outside the horse trek operator's in Songpan. They offer us a 3-day trek to Ice Mountain for Y450 each (about GBP30) including a bed the night before and after the ...
Horse Trekking
This is a top pick! ... & spent his time coughing his guts up as he was so unfit & had had to run after me. We left camp at about 8.30 & rode back to Songpan in about 6 hours. I know many people have had good experiences in Songpan, so I guess we might have been quite ...
Crazy Old Sichuan Bag
This is a top pick! ... Hostel, where the owner was very nice and gave me a 3 person en suite room all to myself for 20Y right next to the best restaurant in Songpan, Emma's Kitchen. I wish I could have gotten a picture of the Crazy Old Bat, but it all happened too ...
3 dny v sedle
Tak jsme se holkama -Svedka a Svycarka odhodlaly podstoupit 3 denni trek do hor na konich a dobre jsme udelaly. Krasna priroda,male vesnicky, mistni lide v krojich, vsude jaci a hlavne hory 2500-5500m. Byla pekna kosa to se musi priznat, holky se ...
Huanglong
Huanglong was another beautiful spots in high altitude about 3 hours away from JiuZhaiGou. This area is known for its colorful pools formed by calcite deposits, snow capped peaks, waterfalls and hot springs. Huanglong is also home to the giant panda and ...
Trek Songpan - Nami, en plein pays tibetain
Nous quittons Jiuzhaigou pour Songpan, point de depart de notre trek. Un trek que nous devons adapter au peu de temps ki nous reste avant notre retour sur chengdu pour prendre notre train a destination de pekin. Le voyage nous ...
Horse trekkin' across the universe
... washing oneself with a rag on a stick and you get close). anyway there's a newly constructed old style city wall around downtown songpan which gives it something extra. most of the houses are all wooden run along the valley out to the mountain sides. we ...
The dragon rears its head
... to "switch off", enjoy being taken around, and make the most of our time with Tony. Shanghai itself is mindboggling. China's largest city, with over 20 million inhabitants, is literally exploding in all directions: up, across and down. Up: ...
Natural beauty!
... to take you to the major sights. We spent all day Friday and half of Saturday in the park, then caught a bus to Songpan. I quite like it here, but I think it's heading into over-touristyness. Sunday, Monday and today we spent riding horses across the ...
Sichuan Province
... con too! So, in a flurry of tears, we went our separate ways, the Jens to Xian (that's pronounced Shian, you know) and us 2 to Songpan...where it's cold. We came here to jolt every bone in our body by taking a 4 day horse trek, which we soon cut to 3 ...
piègé par le tremblement de terre !
... parvenir, rejoindre l'aeroport de Jiuzhaigo dans le sens oppose. Les faibles eboulis dans ce sens sont vites deblayes et on rejoint Songpan pour reserver un billet d'avion. Mais il n'y a plus d'electricite, donc pas de billets et surtout pas d'avions. ...
A three day horse trek at 4000m high.
... cultural differences can cause you sometimes. To stay out of trouble, as a general rule, never get mad at anyone in China. What ever you do, don't make anyone loose face. It's much easier that way. It still was a wonderful experience. ...
Jiuzhaigou Day 5: Songpan
... in, though it was easily apparent from the postcards and decorations on the walls that it is a place frequented by foreign tourists. Songpan is the base for a kind of tourism known as "horse-trekking," where local guides will take you out for a several ...
Beautiful, Diverse and Vibrant Small Town Songpan
... hats. I don't know to which extent horse are a part of the local culture, but it's certainly part of business, since Songpan is known as a horsetrek departure point. The locals have weathered skin and bright pink cheeks from the mountain air and sun. ...
Trek vers Songpan : Jour 2 : Changhai
Aujourd'hui on va à Changhai, soit "le lac long". Il fait grand beau et on se met en route assez tôt. Le chemin monte sec à flanc de montagne dans la forêt puis s'élargit pour laisser entrevoir les hautes montagnes rocheuses en arrière ...
Memories of Switzerland on the Way to Songpan
... will go over, since even when an area is non-smoking, nobody seems to pay attention to the signs.] The road we took to Songpan reminded me of a deeper, narrower, 8-hour long Valais. The entire way we were driving along the cliffs deep in the valley, ...
Clean straight cowbow fun!
I write to you from the cowboy town of Songpan in northern Sichuan. Its a rocky 8 hours to get up here from Chengdu and so its much less touristy. Although not part of Tibet (autonomous region) the people up here are mostly Tibetan in appearance as ...
Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve and Songpan
... look at the sky. After our second day at Jiuzhaigou, we took a bus back towards Chengdu and stopped in a small town called Songpan for a day and a night. We were the only Western tourists in town that we saw that day. We just wandered around the few ...
So friggin' cold
... sat on his horse while locals stared, pointed, laughed, and very occasionally said "hello." --------------------- I am now stuck in Songpan until 6 AM tommorrow when I depart back to Chengdu, and I am killing time at Emma's Kitchen, spending time ...
Stopovers in Songpan and Zoige
... was snow along the way. We originally planned to stay just one day but as it was a nice place, we stayed one more. Songpan is a nice walled town surrounded by hills, with the ancient-looking wall having been rebuilt about 10 years ago. Three of the gates ...
David's Chinese Haircut
It was time for David's second haircut of the trip. His hair is as straight as a Chinese man's (although a bit lighter/whiter!!), so I guess the hairdresser figured she could give him the same haircut as she would her countryman: a square brush cut. ...
To the rooftop of the world!
... words so check out the attached album eh. It all began with a crazy windy bus ride from Chengdu to Songpan, a sleepy shanty Tibetan-influenced mountain village where every shack ironically has its own satellite dish. Our kamikaze driver overtaking on ...
This is China???
... off the plane and onto a bus, which we rode for over an hour to get to our various hotels. Like the rest of China, the area surrounding Jiu Zhai Gou has been extremely built up in recent years, as it has become a trendy vacation spot for those who ...
Arrival in Songpan
... in Chengdu, we woke up at 5AM with Craig, a friend from New Zealand and we went not so fresh to pick up our bus to Songpan. Few minutes after the start of the engine we both fall asleep as stone. We just woke up to see the mountain around with a foggy ...
Losar and the Jars of Evil
For the second time in recent months, I was given the opportunity to visit a village unused to receiving tourists (domestic or foreign). In the Aba prefecture of northern Sichuan, we were invited to see the festivities held surrounding the end of the ...
Bloqué : Glandouille, Branlouille et compagnie
... était dans ce village pourri ou il y avait VRAIMENT rien a faire, du coup je faisais du Chinois, Tchek du Russe. Puis on a bougé à Songpan ou il y a un tout petit peu quelque chose à voir, ou l'ambiance est sympa et surtout ou il y a un internet café ...