48 Hours on the Weekend, Escape from Chengdu to the 23℃ Mountains!

48 Hours on the Weekend, Escape from Chengdu to the 23℃ Mountains! Summer heat relief + hiking, it’s the perfect remedy tailored for the sauna-like weather in Sichuan and Chongqing～

If you really can’t stand the muggy heat, pack your bags overnight and dive into this green wonderland 🍃. The moment you step in, you’ll be captivated by the cool 23℃ breeze! The stream water is icy cold, the shade is dense, and even the air you breathe is filled with abundant negative oxygen ions—so healing～ If you’re lucky, you might even spot wild cuties like sambar deer, monkeys, squirrels, and even red pandas.

🔥 Key points first:
The scenic area is Y-shaped. The east route is a cool canyon plank road with a very gentle slope, 4.5 km one way, perfect for kids; the west route features alpine natural scenery and requires a combination of sightseeing bus, cable car, and hiking.

🌲【Perfect 2-day 1-night itinerary】
Day 1⃣ East Route Oxygen Tour | Explore the entire primitive forest
Route: Visitor Center → Longyin Trail → Suspension Bridge → Ancient Trees → Bishui Bend → Yezhou Island → Blue Crystal Hotel
▫ Beginner-friendly, about 3 hours with stops along the way
✨ Highlights along the way:
✔ Clear, super cool streams all along the path
✔ Waterfall clusters hidden among the treetops
✔ Log suspension bridge crossing the stream
✔ Moss and ancient trees like a carpet, a true forest oxygen bar
✔ The Instagram-famous Bishui Bend, perfect for photos from any angle
✔ You might encounter monkey troops and little squirrels anytime
⚠ After reaching Blue Crystal Hotel, you can hike back the same way or take a sightseeing bus back for 20 yuan

Day 2⃣ Enter the Alpine Fairy Tale World
Route: Visitor Center → Cable Car → Heart-shaped Lake → Red Stone Beach → Deer Pool → Visitor Center
✨ Highlights along the way:
✔ Take the sightseeing bus to the cable car lower station, where there’s a café with amazing views
✔ Ride the cable car up to the 3000+ meter altitude viewing platform—make sure to wear a jacket, it’s really cold! If lucky, you can see the sea of clouds rolling over the mountains. I even saw a red panda～ If you have the energy, hike 1.5 km to check out Heart-shaped Lake
✔ From the cable car lower station, take the sightseeing bus to Red Stone Beach, where the red stones form a spectacular natural painting
✔ From Red Stone Beach, take the sightseeing bus to Deer Pool, a round emerald-green lake surrounded by tall fir trees, perfect for photos. If lucky, you might see sambar deer

📍Laba River Scenic Area, Ya’an, Sichuan
🚗 Transportation: You can drive yourself, or take a direct shuttle from Ya’an High-Speed Rail Station to the scenic area
🎫 Tickets: 50 yuan
🚌 West line sightseeing bus 35 yuan; cable car 90 yuan
🏡 Accommodation:
There are Blue Crystal Hotel and Luming Hotel inside the scenic area, where you can watch sambar deer come to lick salt at night—super fun～

👉🏻TIPS:
✔ Don’t miss the several waterfall clusters by the roadside when leaving the scenic area—they’re stunning
✔ There are so many wild cuties! Monkeys might block your way asking for food (never tease them with food), and sambar deer line up to go down the mountain at dusk
✔ The temperature difference in the mountains is big, remember to bring sunscreen and a light jacket
🐶 This is a pet-friendly scenic area, so you can bring your dog along～

If you don’t want to “mold” in an air-conditioned room this summer, come to Laba River and be a “wild person” for two days～ Wake up with negative oxygen ions, fall asleep to the sound of waterfalls, and even your dreams will be cool and refreshing 🌿