Jiuzhai Hotel - Jiuzhaigou

... Fairy Pond can be quite costly.<br><br> I gave the Tibetan lady guide, Zhuo Ma, a call and arranged for a short 2-hours horse-riding. We had originally planned to have horse-riding for 2 days in Songpan (&#26494;&#28504;), our next destination, to see Munigou (&#29279;&#23612;&#27807;) but the cold weather and high cost of the trip was daunting and we settled for a short experience on the horse-back in Jiuzhaigou. All arranged ...

... It had one big bed and one single bed (since China has the one child policy, a room with beds for 3 is considered a "family room",) and it had a bathroom attached.  We put 2 kids on the floor.<br><br>Henry was still not feeling well, so we ended up letting him sleep in 2 mornings.  We spent the afternoons in Jiuzhaigou national park.  The park reminded us a lot of Yellowstone, although it is much, much smaller.  It is famous ...

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... Huanglong, which I had not had time for this time around. The scenery on the way to the airport was stunning and the cab driver was really nice and chatty. We got to talking about the earthquake the year before. I remember how scared my friends and I had been trying to escape from our 27th floor apartment in far away Wuhan. How awful to feel the ground shake and boulders fall from the mountains above so close to the epicentre. The driver's brother had in-laws in Wenchuan. When ...

... shockingly in our favor. The four of us shared a minibus from Songpan to Jiuzhaigou after completing our trek, and as we were quite unfamiliar with the expansive grounds, we settled on the expensive (but best value, given what we were faced with) YouU Hostel. HUGE doubles with hotel-style furnishings (western toilets and actual enclosed shower stalls that didn't get the floor soaked) and hot water (we figured we deserved it after the ordeal we'd been through ...

After a good last night 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 light. Few hours of drive into terrific mountains which were looking like our Alpes and ...

... the trek there, or go all the way to Langmusi for a better one, probably? We did the natural thing, I guess: posponed the decision. First of all, we will visit the tremendous natural reserve of Jiuzhaigou, and then we'll decide if we stay in Songpan or not. Anyway - we will make this horse trek, here or there. In the evening, we went to Emma's restaurant. No, she is not a British girl who immigrated to China or something similar - she is Tibetan, and like many ...

... very happy I went on the Horse Trek. The 'situation' was my fault in a way but NOT my fault as no one told me NOT what to do. Infact, we were actually not told anything, not even how to stop our horse if it did bolt or run too fast for us. My tip for any horse trek for an inexperienced rider such as myself..ask questions! Think of a list of questions to ask the night before and ASK THEM! Horses can be very ...

... harness as my big pack but with this type of Day Pack you can NOT roll it up and pack it in your big pack. Anyhow, back to Songpan, today was spent walking and walking and walking around Songpan and across the river and through the little old sections of the town. Many Chinese with their little Muslim caps offered us warm and friendly 'hello's'. It was a beautiful day. In the late afternoon we headed ...

... from but now they are actually in the same shop. It's so incestuous that you actually have no idea who you are booking your tour with. I'm writing this five days later and I still have no idea who we went with. We spent the night at Emmas Cafe and then headed next door for a massage. My neck is pretty buggered and always sore so Emma told me to choose the Tibetan massage and only have the big Tibetan guy in the robes do ...