I just returned from a 10 day round trip around Chengdu areas in the title.
It's a tough round trip, as the places are scattered.
My view :
1. HuangLong. Can skip - it's a long trek in the park like 7.5 to 10 km, and at high altitude. My daughter of 12 and I were feeling terrible - as we need to go over another mountain which I heard is like 5000m, and after that, we kanna mountain sickness even though HL is around 3000m high.
And, the scene is not so spectacular.
2. JiuZhaiGou. This is much easier as there's a bus running in the park, and lower altitude compare to Huanglong. View points are much accessible. If for just photography trip, I will skip Huanglong, and do JZG for 2 days.
3. Leshan. After trekking HL and JZG, we decided to take a boat ride to see the big buddha, as compare to another land trekking. But for photographers, I recommend to trek and view the buddha up close, as the angle from the boat is limited.
4. Emeishan. After Leshan boat ride, we head over to Emeishan. Frankly, if I'm not travelling with my family and my friend's family, I will just walk off the emeishan visit, as the park operating staff are rude and arrogant.
It started at the bus ticketing office next to the Teddybear hotel. When I wanted to buy the park entrance ticket, the counter girl rudely told me off that they don't sell the entrance ticket, but only the bus ticket here. When I asked her where to buy the park entrance, she simply ignored me, and throughout the whole duration, she don't even bother to look at us when talk to us.
Then we were shouted at to board the bus. After a short ride, we reached the park entrance, and then the driver told the ticketing officer that only some of us had bought the entrance ticket, the ticket officer came up and shouted in mandarin, "All those who don't have the tickets, get off the bus!", and he behaved like a gangster, keep yearning and shouting, instead of just inform who don't have the tickets, please alight to buy.
And, then next, is the ticketing office girl at the cable car station. Similarly, she just shouting and screaming, like we are so hard-up to visit Emeishan, and when I asked her the direction to the smaller cable car, as the big cable car is out of order, she just impatiently shouted back the direction.
It's a shame that the signboard says "秀甲天下，means "most elegant", but the people there just can't make it.
5. Hailougou. The road to HLG is long (7 hours from Chengdu or Emei) too, and there's many mountain pass near HLG. When we were there, we stayed at Moxi for a night, and at base camp 2 hot spring hotel for another night. There's a park bus running from base camps to base camps. The last base camp, 4, is reachable via cable car.
The trek from the base camp 4 to the gracier or to the viewing areas of the mountains are much easier as compare to Huanglong. Go in the morning, when usually the sky will clear up to peek the mountains. It's rather cloudy in the afternoon.
Beside, Emeishan, the park operators at the others are generally more friendly and not as rude. Given the choice, I will not visit Emeishan again.
It's a tough round trip, as the places are scattered.
My view :
1. HuangLong. Can skip - it's a long trek in the park like 7.5 to 10 km, and at high altitude. My daughter of 12 and I were feeling terrible - as we need to go over another mountain which I heard is like 5000m, and after that, we kanna mountain sickness even though HL is around 3000m high.
And, the scene is not so spectacular.
2. JiuZhaiGou. This is much easier as there's a bus running in the park, and lower altitude compare to Huanglong. View points are much accessible. If for just photography trip, I will skip Huanglong, and do JZG for 2 days.
3. Leshan. After trekking HL and JZG, we decided to take a boat ride to see the big buddha, as compare to another land trekking. But for photographers, I recommend to trek and view the buddha up close, as the angle from the boat is limited.
4. Emeishan. After Leshan boat ride, we head over to Emeishan. Frankly, if I'm not travelling with my family and my friend's family, I will just walk off the emeishan visit, as the park operating staff are rude and arrogant.
It started at the bus ticketing office next to the Teddybear hotel. When I wanted to buy the park entrance ticket, the counter girl rudely told me off that they don't sell the entrance ticket, but only the bus ticket here. When I asked her where to buy the park entrance, she simply ignored me, and throughout the whole duration, she don't even bother to look at us when talk to us.
Then we were shouted at to board the bus. After a short ride, we reached the park entrance, and then the driver told the ticketing officer that only some of us had bought the entrance ticket, the ticket officer came up and shouted in mandarin, "All those who don't have the tickets, get off the bus!", and he behaved like a gangster, keep yearning and shouting, instead of just inform who don't have the tickets, please alight to buy.
And, then next, is the ticketing office girl at the cable car station. Similarly, she just shouting and screaming, like we are so hard-up to visit Emeishan, and when I asked her the direction to the smaller cable car, as the big cable car is out of order, she just impatiently shouted back the direction.
It's a shame that the signboard says "秀甲天下，means "most elegant", but the people there just can't make it.
5. Hailougou. The road to HLG is long (7 hours from Chengdu or Emei) too, and there's many mountain pass near HLG. When we were there, we stayed at Moxi for a night, and at base camp 2 hot spring hotel for another night. There's a park bus running from base camps to base camps. The last base camp, 4, is reachable via cable car.
The trek from the base camp 4 to the gracier or to the viewing areas of the mountains are much easier as compare to Huanglong. Go in the morning, when usually the sky will clear up to peek the mountains. It's rather cloudy in the afternoon.
Beside, Emeishan, the park operators at the others are generally more friendly and not as rude. Given the choice, I will not visit Emeishan again.
