Huanglong 黄龙

We took a 3D2N Jiuzhai Huanglong trip departed from Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, the tour was RMB2200 per person. We took flight from Chengdu Shuangliu Airport to Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport in the morning, the flight took about 45mins to reach JiuHuang airport. During the journey, we were amazed by the beautiful and supernatural mountains scenery along the way.

For the first day, we visited Huanglong which is about 50km away from the JiuHuang airport. Huanglong is one of the UNESCO listed natural world heritage sites and is well known for its colorful ponds.

On the way to Huanglong, our lunch... Views from the bus... Roads had been destroyed during the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and were under construction. At The Snow Ridge, we stopped for some photos. Arrived at Huanglong. At the main entrance of Huanglong...
We didn't enter Huanglong scenic spot using the main entrance, we took cable car.

There is a cable car at Huanglong, we took the cable car and reached to a higher altitude viewing platform. There is a walkway connected to the viewing platform which we walked for about 1 hour and reached to an intersection of the main gate path. Then just a short walk up, we'll reached to the upper ponds. After some photos snapping, we walked down to the main gate which is about 4-5km long.

I would recommend to spend about RMB40 for a cable car to go up the valley as it would take about2-3 hours if you choose to on foot start from the main gate. When we were walking down to the main gate, we saw a lot of people were still walking up the valley, they were regret as it was tiring and scared that they may not be able to reach the upper pond as the Huanglong will be closing at about 5pm.

Inside the cable car...

Cable car stopped at a higher altitude viewing platform. We still need to walk for less than 1 hour to reach to an intersection path with the main gate path.

Washroom at the cable car upper station. Cable car stopped at this viewing platform. Continue to walk along the path to reach to the main Huanglong scenic spot. Reaching the intersection between the main entrance path and cable car path. Start to climb up the stair or walkway after the intersection. Reached at the upper ancient temple, still need to walk some more to reach to the highest viewing platform. The journey quite tiring because we need to climb up the stairs... took some rest at the temple. Continued to walk along the path and started to see the multi-colors ponds. The building at my back is the upper ancient temple which we took a rest just now.
Taking photos at the highest viewing platform.
After some rest and photo taking, walked along the path at the other side to go back to the main entrance. This is middle ancient temple which can only see along the path go back to main entrance. There is a rest house which served food. There were some people still climbing up during the time we walked down. We were impressed seeing some guys carrying heavy woods, stones and sands for the walkway construction. Taking some rest after walked for quite some time. A store selling drinks and some souvenirs. Oxygen available for some people who needs it... Nice and beautiful view of the colors ponds along the path...
Still walking down the path to the main entrance... Nice mountains and ponds view... Buy some drinks while walking towards our bus...
On the way back to hotel, the bus stopped for some rest... View from the bus... Our hotel... stayed here for 2 nights. Our dinner at the hotel...