Sichuan; Jiuzhaigou, a date through thousands of years

Number of days: 3 days
Time: July
Average cost: 2000 yuan
With whom: parent-child
Updated: 2025.08.21

Days: 3 days Time: July Per capita: 2,000 yuan Family outing

In July, my daughter finished the high school entrance examination and went on summer vacation! We start a summer vacation trip once a year~ Starting from Guangzhou South Railway Station - Chengdu East Railway Station - Zhenjiangguan Station, book a car to Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area in China-TravelNote, and it is already 9 o'clock in the evening when you arrive at the hotel that day, wash and sleep.

Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan Jiuzhaigou is world-renowned, attracting tourists at home and abroad every year, located on a plateau at an altitude of 3,500 meters, in the intersection area of Tibetan and Han Wuhui and other multi-ethnic cultures, so the Tibetan culture in Jiuzhaigou is also attached to the imprint of its national cultural integration. Residents living near Jiuzhaigou scenic spots have now built buildings to do some homestay hotel business. Life is very prosperous!

Jiuzhai is named because of the presence of nine Tibetan villages in its geographical environment. These nine villages are: Neirui Village, Pearl Beach Village, Tuoba Village, Nuorilang Village, Shangzhalong Village, Zhongzhalong Village, Xiazhalong Village, Zhuhai Village, and Square Village, so it is called Jiuzhaigou. Before the 70s, many trees were cut down, and the villagers even clashed with the vandals in order to protect the trees, but the villagers were always difficult to defeat the prepared loggers, resulting in serious soil erosion in Jiuzhaigou and the discoloration of the river. Later, with the reform and opening up, the government gradually paid attention to environmental protection, cracking down on the rectification of loggers and returning green mountains and green waters to the villagers. Later, with the rise and development of tourism, the villagers returned to the forest, forming the current beautiful Jiuzhaigou. Jiuzhaigou only has summer in July and August a year, and the rest of the time is quite cold, I heard from local residents that they already have to wear coats in September and are ready to snow, but there is another kind of scenery here in winter - silver is very beautiful. Jiuzhaigou maintains a primitive ecology all year round, tourists are not allowed to smoke, and will be heavily fined if found, smokers should pay attention to quitting smoking~

There will be a free bus to take you to Shuzheng Waterfall when entering the scenic spot (buses one after another, no need to crowd, queue up quickly to get on the bus). There are no stops along the way to the Tiger Sea and the Rhino Sea, and if you don't want to miss these attractions, you can hike forward. We walk along Shuzheng Waterfall all the way to Sunset Langgou Waterfall (this is the visitor service center and transit point). The map of Jiuzhaigou is like a "Y" shape, and you can choose to take the bus to the left or right. (I chose to start from the left first, return to the customer service center for dinner at noon, and then take the bus to play the route on the right).

The bus runs from the Sunset Lang Visitor Center all the way up to Changhai, which is the terminus of the left line. Changhai and Colorful Pond are must-play attractions, the two points are only a ten-minute walk away, and other attractions can be visited by car. (This is the long sea, it's beautiful!) Standing in front of the Changhai Observation Deck, looking at the verdant mountains on both sides, with a dark green ribbon between them, it winds forward to the 4-kilometer-long long sea. The "one-armed old cypress" in front of me enjoys this beautiful scenery day after day, whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter......

Changhai walked back, walked down the mountain plank road through the observation deck sign, and soon arrived at the colorful pool. As the saying goes, "why bother with silk and bamboo, the landscape has a clear sound", accompanied by the crisp birdsong, watching the colorful pond is even more flavorful! The colorful pond is small and delicate in a small ravine, like a color palette painted by immortals, and like jade falling into the lake, which makes people feel the magic of nature.

Cross the colorful pond and return to Changhai along the plank road to take the bus back to the Sunset Lang Visitor Center. There are many food merchants in the visitor center, and the price is at the level of tourist attractions, and it is not very expensive, and everything you want to eat is basically satisfied. There is also a commercial street selling jewelry and specialties, so it's good to take a walk and buy some gadgets. After eating and drinking, we walked to the nearby Sunset Lang Waterfall to take pictures, and then returned to Sunset Lang and took the bus to the right side of the Y line.

Since July and August are the wet season, there is a lot of rain in the forest, the primeval forest and the Swan Sea are not open to the public, and the bus terminal is located in Jianzhu Sea. The day before arriving, it was still raining in Jiuzhai, so the water in the Arrow Bamboo Sea was muddy, and the beauty of the Arrow Bamboo Sea was not captured. Follow the plank road down to the Panda Sea, where legend has it that you often encounter pandas, and if you want to take a car, you can also take a bus for 1 minute to reach the Wuhua Sea. Wuhuahai is the essence of the right line, and a plank road has been built along the road to overlook the entire Wuhuahai. After the heavy rain, the water from the Panda Sea mixed into the Five Flowers Sea, turning the originally blue-green sea water into yellow-green.

The water of the Pearl Sea flows down from the source like broken pearls, worthy of the name Pearl Sea.

When the Pearl Sea came out, we already felt that we had lost two legs, and we took the car directly through the large and small seas, straight out of Shuzhenggou, and ended the trip to Jiuzhaigou. It was 6 pm when I returned to the hotel, and the hotel owner introduced us to eat the barbecue next to it. The taste is okay.

On the third day, I still made an appointment with China-TravelNote's car to go to Huanglong Scenic Area, some people said that there was no need to go to Huanglong when I went to Jiuzhaigou, my feeling is that there are two different scenic spots, the scenery is different. Huanglong's calcification pool is like a small jasper, and the atmosphere of Jiuzhaigou is everyone's lady. Anyway, I'm here, I definitely have to take a look.

Huanglong is 1000-1500 meters higher than the altitude of Jiuzhaigou, and if you are prone to high reactions, it is recommended to eat some rhodiola rosea early to prevent it. My daughter said she had a bit of a headache when she arrived at the attraction, and I drank Rhodiola oral liquid and there was no high reaction. Huanglong wants to make an appointment for the shuttle bus in the mini program, and it doesn't matter if we go temporarily and don't make an appointment for the shuttle bus. Take the car of the scenic spot to the observation deck, and then walk all the way to the highest point (about 45 minutes) to see the calcification pool where the essence is located.

After taking pictures of the most beautiful calcification pool, there are large and small calcification pools on both sides of the walk, such as the stars in the deep sky on a summer night, and the gems inlaid on the skirt of the cool forest mushrooms.

As a reminder, there is only one restaurant in the Huanglong Scenic Area, there is nothing delicious in it, there are a few restaurants selling corn sausages at the entrance of the scenic spot, you can buy them to satisfy your hunger, there is a fried chicken shop, but the things inside are super unpalatable. In the afternoon, I took the car booked by China-TravelNote to Zhenjiangguan Station, where many vendors were selling food near the station, and there were several fixed merchants selling beef, 15 yuan three skewers of roast beef, we each had a handful, cumin-flavored and delicious. Finally, take the high-speed rail Zhenjiangguan Station - Chengdu East Railway Station - Guangzhou South Railway Station to end the pleasant journey.