Jiuzhaigou Hotels - Comments and Reviews

We got up at 8:30am and checked out at 9:30 in the morning. After enjoying a local breakfast - "Rice Noodle" nearby the hotel, we started the 1st day of our self-driving tour in Sichuan at 11am. Pretty tough day today since Jason's been driving for eight and half hours non-stoply.

We took the "East Route" of "Jiuhuan Route", which wa...

We arrived in Chengdu on 28 September to organise our visa extensions and our permits and passage to Tibet. Unfortunately the visa office was closing the next day for a week's public holiday and with the processing time being 5 working days we were told to pick up our passports on 11 October. Not ideal but what could we do? Our initial plan was ...

We took a long bus journey into the mountains (12 hours, it's really nothing to me any more, considering the missions i have been on) to jiuzhaigou, China's most famous scenic reserve, a gully in the foothills of the himalayas with breathtaking lakes and mountains - they really have to be seen to be believed, i'd seen photos before we got there,...

08 May 06 - 10 May 06 After a memorable bus ride (initially 12 hours, plus 2 hoursd waiting for bus replacement in the middle of nowhere thanks a flat tire), here we are in Juzhaigou national park - 2 days of hiking between 1000 and 3000 m. The national park includes 2 major valleys, borded by snowy peaks and filled with turquoise blue lakes and...

We take the 7am bus for a daytrip to Huanglong (Yellow Dragon) National Park feeling somewhat tired directly after our horse trekking adventures. The park promises some of the best mountain and lake scenery in China, so despite wanting to blob around all day in Songpan, I can't really refuse to join Rachel for the day out. Songpan is shrouded in...