Day 1 Home/Chengdu
On arrival you will be welcomed by your local guide and driver, and it takes about 1.5hs to drive to Dujiangyan city, which is about 70km away from Chengdu,and you will hike in the Mt. Qingcheng to experience the Taoist culture
Overnight Dujiangyan Uvilla Resort & Culture
Meals: D
Day 2 Dujiangyan /Mt Four Ladies
After breakfast we say goodbye to Chengdu plain, and drive to Wolong National Nature Reserve to have a volunteer experience there, where you can have a close experience with the lovely pandas. And after the volunteer, a 2-hour drive is needed to Mt Four Ladies,which gains the name of “China’s Alps”
Overnight Above the Clouds Guest House
Meals: B, L, D
Day 3 Shuangqiao Valley Trek
This day, we will have a visit of one of the valleys by shuttle bus. We will spend whole day visiting Shuangqiao Valley, where you may see the white praying flags with the Paogoda there
Overnight Above the Clouds Guest House
Meals: B, L, D
Day 4 Mt Four Ladies/Jiaju Tibetan Village
This morning we may spend 3 hours driving to Jiaju Tibetan village, a traditional Tibetan village nested on the high mountain area. This village is listed one of top ten most beautiful villages in China by China National Geography. There are about one hundred families living in this village now.
We spend whole afternoon visiting this village, walk around and talk with locals
Overnight Local Tibetan Guest House
Meals: B, L, D
Day 5 Danba/Tagong Grassland/Yajiang
We will be waked up by the birds, open the windows for the amazing views of the mountain area. After a Tibetan breakfast, we keep driving towards west, on the way stop to visit Huiyuan Temple with the history of 300 hundred years old
In the afternoon we will have a short walk on Tagong Grassland before settle down in Yajiang County
Overnight Yajiang 318 Motel
Meals: B, L, D
Day 6 Yajiang /Riwa County
Today it is a long journey on the way to Riwa County, as we keep driving west, the landscape changes a lot as we enter the real Sichuan West Plateau. The mountains become huge like layers of layers ocean waves. As the altitude gets higher and higher, less habitats live here before arriving Litang city. And on the way we may pass by several mountain passes above 4500m
Overnight Risong Gongbu Hotel
Meals: B, L, D
Day 7 Ri Wa /Yading
In the morning we will change the shuttle bus to Yading Nature Reserve. As there are 3 holy snow mountains sit in this nature reserve, weather permitted we may enjoy the beautiful views of the snow mountains, together with rich Tibetan culture. And Yading is regarded as the “Shangre-la”, the book –“Lost Horizon” actually is written according to this place
We could either walk about 5-6 hrs to explore this area or take the golf car for a leisure tour in this area
Overnight Local guest house
Meals: B, L, D
Day 8 Yading/Daocheng
In this morning we will enter the national park again for visiting different lakes inside, as those lakes are regarded as the holy lakes by the locals, we may find may colorful praying cloth hanged nearby, also the Mani Piles made of rocks with Tibetan Buddhism language set there
In the afternoon we go back to Daocheng, enjoy a farewell dinner.
Overnight Xiangyun Hotel
Meals: B, L, D
Day 9 Daocheng/Beijing
Airport transfer, fly to Chengdu with CA4216(08:15-09:15), the end of trip.
Meals: B
