Our route Our 20 days DIY trip focused on some very famous and stunning destinations in SiChuan. SiChuan is a southwestern province in China. It is one of the largest provinces in China with an area of 485,000 km². Our…
Day 20: Going Home
Plan for the day There was no sightseeing plan for this day, as it was our last morning in ChengDu. We would be flying out of ChengDu ShuangLiu Airport at 2.05 pm and touching down in Singapore at 6.40 pm.…
Day 19: ChengDu & JinLi Ancient Town
Plan for the day This day was our last full day in ChengDu and we still had a final sightseeing destination, JinLin Ancient Street (锦里古街), to visit. JinLin Ancient Street was about 3 km from our hotel. We could either…
Day 18: ChengDu, LuoDai Ancient Town & BoKe Town
Plan for the day The plan was to visit LuoDai Ancient Town (洛带古镇景区) and the neighbouring BoKe Ancient Town (博客小镇). Both towns were quite a distance from our hotel, at about 29 km east. We planned to go by mass…
Day 17: ChengDu, QinTai Street & KuanZhai Alley
Plan for the day The plan for the day was to “transfer” from SiGuNiang Village (RiLong Town) to ChengDu (成都). The distance was about 194 and the journey would take about 3.75 hours. Upon reaching ChengDu the first task would…
Day 16: SiGuNiang Village
Plan for the day We had planned for four nights stay at YunXiGu Guesthouse in RiLong Town, so that the 2nd, 3rd and 4th days were full days which would give us ample times to explore the valleys of SiGuNiang…
Day 15: ChangPing Valley
Plan for the Day For the day we planned to explore ChangPing Valley. By the end of the day We started at the entrance of ChangPing Valley at 9.45 am and returned to the entrance again at 4 pm. At…
Day 14: ShuangQiao Valley
Plan for the day Our plan was to spend a whole day at ShuangQiao Valley Scenic Reserve (SiGuNiang Mountain). From guesthouse in RiLong Town to the entrance of ShuangQiao Valley Scenic Reserve was about 8 km. By the end of…
Day 13: DanBa to SiGuNiang
Plan for the Day Today would be another “transfer day”, our plan was to travel from ZhongLu village to Rilong Town (日隆镇). Rilong Town was the closest town to the three famous valleys of SiGuNiang Mountains, which were ShuangQiao valley (双桥沟), ChangPing…
Day 12: Danba – ZhongLu Village
Plan for the day The plan was to rest and relax at ZhongLu Village. We could hire a car and visit other Tibetan villages but thought it would be unnecessary as they would be just like ZhongLu village. By the…
Day 11: Arriving at Danba
Plan for the Day Our plan was to travel from MaErKang to DanBa (丹巴). The estimated duration of the bus journey was about 5 hours for a distance of 200 km. We should be in DanBa by about 2 pm.…
Day 10: HeiShui to MaErKang
Plan for the day The plan was to get from HeiShui (黑水) to MaErKang (马尔康) by bus. Then to spend a night at MaErkang. The distance between these two places were about 160 km so the journey duration would be…
Day 9: DaGu Glacier
Plan for the Day Our plan was to spend the whole day at Dagu Glacier. We planned to go up to the glacier on a ropeway/cable car and stayed warm and cosy in “The World Highest Cafe” at altitude 4860…
Day 8: HongYuan to HeiShui
Plan for the day Our original plan was to get to HeiShui (黑水) from TangKe after staying two nights. But the construction mess in TangKe (唐克) had made us fled the town early in the morning after the first night.…
Day 7: HongYuan Moon River
Plan for the Day Our original plan was to spend the day in TangKe. If we had not managed to visit the First Bend of the Yellow River Scenic Reserve the day before due to bad weather we would had…
Day 6: RuoErGai to First Bend of Yellow River
Plan of the day The plan was to go to TangKe and if there was enough time and the weather was fine we would visit the “First Bend of the Yellow River Scenic Area this evening”. If the weather was…
Day 5: SongPan to RuoErGai
Plan for the dAy We decided to adhere to our original plan to travel northward to RuoErGai (若尔盖). In our last two days in SongPan we had heard that RuoErGai was covered in snow and HuaHu Scenic Reserve (花湖风景区), one…
Day 4: MoNiGou
Plan of the Day The plan was to visit two scenic sights at MoNiGou (漠泥沟). The first sight was ZhaGa Falls (扎嘎瀑) and the second ErDaoHai Scenic Reserve (二道海景区) .It should take about a whole day to walk both areas.…
Day 3: HuangLong to SongPan
Plan for the day Our plan was to have a relaxing day. We knew our HuangLong trek the day before would tired us and we would need a break before the next trekking. So today would be a “transfer day”…
Day 2: Exploring HuangLong
Plan for the day We planned to spend the entire day exploring HuangLong Scenic Reserve. How long would be required, we were not too sure. Anyway we gave ourselves from 9pm to 5pm. At the end of the day We…
Day 1: ChengDu to HuangLong
Plan for the day We would be flying out of ChengDu at 2 pm and touching down at JiuZhai-HuangLong Airport (九寨黄龙机场) at about 3 pm. Travelling by plane would take about 50 minutes whereas travelling by bus the trip would…
Flying into Chengdu
Plan for the day Our plan for the day was to fly from Singapore to ChengDu (成都). We would touch down in ChengDu ShuangLiu International Airport (成都双流国际机场) just after midnight. Then we would proceed to a nearby hotel for a…