The most beautiful rice city A trip that lives up to autumn

Number of days: 8 days
Time: September
Average cost: 6400 yuan
With whom: and parents
Updated: 2023.11.03

Since the children went to elementary school, our thunderous winter and summer vacations and National Day travel mode has been opened. After three years of stagnation, the children are already in junior high school. As a travel maniac, even if you travel with homework, you have to go out to play. This time we chose Inagi City. The scenery of Daocheng is really beautiful, and now is a good time for autumn.

On this trip, we rented a car in Yihi, because there is no handling fee for returning the car at his home, which is very convenient.

Day1 Daocheng Aden

We have arranged a full 8-day itinerary. In addition to Daocheng, he also went to Yunnan. As we all know, the two places are connected. In fact, Daocheng is also very close to Shangri-La, and if time permits, it is best to take a 15-day loop.

Daocheng Aden is the core scenic spot of our trip. In terms of hotel selection, it is best to choose a hotel that is not very far from the scenic spot, because the five-color sea closes at three o'clock in the afternoon, if you want to challenge the five-color sea and the milk sea, you still need to leave early in the morning.

You can buy tickets in advance (tickets + sightseeing buses), and you don't need to exchange tickets at the distribution center, you can pass directly by swiping your ID card.

Then you need to take a sightseeing bus for about 70 minutes up the mountain, you can sit on the left side as much as possible when going up the mountain, the scenery along the way is very beautiful, you can look at the snow-capped mountains from a distance.

The sightseeing bus ends at Zhaguanben, and it takes about 20 minutes to walk to Chonggu Temple. This is the filming location of "Passing by Your World", the ancient meadow, and the waiting point for battery cars. From here, you can separate two roads, if you want to swim easily, you can take a short line to Dolma Latso (Pearl Sea), we don't have time to walk this road, according to friends who have been there, the scenery of the Pearl Sea is also very good. If you want to challenge yourself, you can take a battery car to Luorong Cattle Farm, and then board the Milk Sea and the Five-Colored Sea.

Although it is only 5 kilometers from Luorong Cattle Farm to Wusehai, walking and climbing in the plateau area is very physically demanding. When I came, I came to Daocheng Aden, and I didn't go to the Sea of Milk and the Sea of Five Colors, and there will be some regrets.

The milk sea is under the five-color sea, when it comes to the fork in the road, it is recommended to go directly to the five-color sea, overlooking the milk sea from the top will be more beautiful, and the colorless sea will close at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, we are the milk sea we arrived at first, it took too much time to take pictures, and then I was worried that I would not be able to catch up with climbing up, so my son and I went down the mountain first, and my father went up by himself.

If you are not too obsessed with the peak, my personal recommended route is: Chonggu Temple battery car - Luorong Cattle Farm - Gonggatso - walk down the mountain to Chonggu Temple - Pearl Sea. This line will not have much climbing, although the distance is long, it is relatively easy to walk, and the main scenery is beautiful, especially Luorong Cattle Farm and Gonggatso.

The section from Luorong Cattle Farm to Chonggu Temple is because most tourists choose battery cars to go down the mountain, so the hiking experience should be very good. Here is a kind of entanglement. Should I go to Shangri-La or go down to Yajiang? Finally, it was decided to go to Yajiang.

Although the distance from Daocheng to Shangri-La is close, the road conditions are very bad, and there will be a lot of falling rocks on the whole mountain road, and if it is raining, it must not be driven. Therefore, we did not dare to go (and will eventually go again)

Snow-capped mountains, meadows, lakes, cattle and horses, jumping out of the daily life of chickens and dogs, I am glad that I chose to set off bravely at this moment.

After going down the mountain, I ate a Chengdu hot pot outdoors next to the hotel, I don't know if it was because I was too hungry after a day, and I felt that it was delicious, better than the hot pot I ate in Chongqing. Coming down from the Sea of Milk, the highest altitude of the trip, all previous worries disappeared. Therefore, you can't set limits on yourself, you must have the courage to try everything you thought was impossible.

Day2:318 National Highway Walk

Today I

drove along the famous National Highway 318, which is actually a small section, from Litang to Xindu Bridge.

After Litang and entering Yajiang, the scenery is relatively simple (single and beautiful), which is like this blue sky and white clouds with vast meadows, and the winding mountain roads in the meadows are in full view.

Compared with 318, I feel that the scenery of 227 in the section from Daocheng to Litang is more diverse. On the way from Litang to Yajiang, you will pass through the eighteen bends of the heavenly road, and the dozens of zigzag bends overlooking are spectacular along the way.

This section of the road is built on the Scissors Bay Mountain at an altitude of more than 4,500 meters, and there will be observation decks along the way, and we did not stop in order to rush to Xindu Bridge to see the sunshine of Jinshan before sunset.

Entering the Yajiang River, there will be a forest road, the stream flowing at the foot of the mountain is crystal clear, and the leaves of some trees have been dyed red by the mid-autumn wind, I opened the car window and breathed deeply into this thin but pure oxygen at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.

When we arrived at the observation deck of Gongga Snow Mountain, it was already dark, and the tourists who came down from the mountain said that the weather was bad that day, and they did not see the legendary sunset Golden Mountain, so we hastily had dinner and went back to the hotel to rest, ready to get up early the next day to watch the sunrise as compensation.

Day3 is a bit disappointing sunrise

Xindu Bridge in early October, sunrise at 7:06 a.m. The four of us went out at 6 o'clock in the morning, and went up the observation deck in the dark, and there would be people riding horses up the mountain below, 80 people, about 10 minutes to the observation deck, I was reluctant to ride because I disliked the smell of horses. It turns out that our choice is right, in fact, it is not very high at all.

After 4 days, we gradually adapted to the environment of the plateau, and we didn't feel very tired climbing up. It's just that the sunrise and sunset are hard to come by, the top of the mountain has just been reflected a little red, and the thick clouds have pressed over, and in the end it is disappointed, which is the biggest regret of this trip.

After breakfast, we located the last night of the Kangding Tingshan B&B, Xinduqiao is a town in Kangding City, so the distance is not far, about 2 hours by car, You can continue to take the southern route of National Highway 318, or choose the northern line of 434 Kangding Airport Road, because we are going to Yuzi West and Gediram, so we choose the northern line.

There

is a campsite not far from the car. The fresh literary wind blew through the west of the caviar, we drank coffee, and the children ate ice cream. Chatting with the little boss who sells road coffee, I learned that he drove the car while playing and selling coffee, and when he was tired of walking, he found a favorite place to live, which is what we social animals who work 8 hours a day a day yearn for.