Paradesa Jiuzhaigou Resort

... Not wanting to waste time, we hopped on the bus again and headed back to Arrow Bamboo Lake (箭竹海). There are actually two scenic spots, Gran Lake (芳草海) and Swan Lake (天鹅海), between Primeval Forest and Arrow Bamboo Lake but the in-park transport service don't stop at these spots. To reach both lakes, one has to trek from Primeval Forest for a few kilometers to reach there and trek again to Arrow ...

... y yo. Cada una corto trozos de carne, lavo vegetales, los preparo... y despues de varias horas, voila! cenamos unos platos deliciosos.

Mas que la clase incluso, la experiencia de visitar la casa y familia de Zhuo Ma, fue estupenda. Nos acogieron como si fueramos viejos amigos, en lugar de un grupo de jovenes sin nada que hacer.

De camino de vuelta al hotel, paramos a ver un mercadito nocturno, con souvenirs y setas recogidas en el monte.

... visit Jiuzhaigou national park in Sichuan province, since the pictures of it looked beatiful. And it was - have a look at the pics, which dont really do it justice.
One funny thing was that they lay on buses to get you round the park (and thats an outrageous tenner extra each as well, sorry gonna stop going on about money now) - fine its massive, and you ...

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... some extra time on your hands, you could go west. This is where Jesse and I made our first gaffe at navigating the park, as we stayed on the bus going the westerly (less attractive route). The ride veered up past beautiful alpine views, and upon reaching the top, we were greeted with one of the biggest lakes in the park, which while beautiful, wasn't quite on par with the rest of the dazzling array. Here, we were met not only with the usual tourist hordes, but ...

... we ll see if I continue to met some of them during my trip. She gave us a tour of the city and bring us in a tea house near the river where the you can drink tea all the afternoon and eating pipas for 5 Yuans. At the end of the day, we started a tournament of cards which ended up sometime during the night: a good preparation for our trek the next morning!!!

... was known to her, and she repeated that she wants to improve her English maybe a dozen time during the meal. At night we weren't allowed to go out of the building. The hostess claimed that she doesn't want the rangers to see us, but later we figured out that this is an unwritten agreement between the rangers and the locals, who just want to earn some money for living. Waking up the morning after was like a dream; it was so quiet outside, so we could hear the ...

... have the 'best and coldest beer' was the beautiful valley with a heap of tall Tibetan prayer flags fluttering in the wind far below. The four day trekkers stopped about an hour before us on a mountain top and we continued until we were in a little valley with a small stream running through it. As the guides began setting up camp some of us began a climb up the hill beside us. Don't even bother trying to help ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Today we were off to Songpan I have met so many travellers whom had come through Sichuan down through Yunnan and into Guangxi. I had chatted to them over late night beer about the beautiful horse treks they had experienced in the town of Songpan. Songpan...the name fills ones mind with beauty and wonder Songpan...I wondered if it really was full of wonder The main reason in going to Songpan was of ...

... cute. The trek upwards was quite steep and I was glad it was the horse doing it and not me! Finally we reached the top and then we got off the horses and walked down the mountain because its dangerous to ride down the mountain on the horses. Anyway we ended up treking basically down a river, not a footpath as you may have hoped. At lunchtime we arrived at our camp and the guides set up while we rested our bottoms and legs. After we'd had a quick lunch we nipped off to some hot ...