Price: upon inquiry
Destinations Visited: Chengdu - Bipenggou - Siguniang - Chengdu
Departure: Private Tour / Flexible Date
This is a short adventure tour into the big mountains of Qionglaishan with visits to Siguniang (four sister mountains) and Bipenggou. With 3 or 4 days time you will have the chance to see snow-capped mountains, deep and wild valleys with highland forest and river/lake views. In summer you will have views of green mountains, in autumn you will see golden foliage, and in winter snow...
Book NowThis tour will also include the sites along the way to have a better pace while not missing everything along the way.
Start from your hotel in Chengdu in the morning and drive to Dujiangyan and visit the irrigation park. Dujiangyan Irrigation System Park is a world heritage sit and a 2000-year-old system that has been working ever since to nourish the vast Chengdu Plain. We will visit the core parts of Dujiangyan Irrigation Park for around 2 hours and continue drive into the mountains.
After the visit in Dujiangyan, keep driving to the mountains and a visit to the old village of Taoping, a fortress used by local villagers to defend its homes. Taoping Qiang Village is a best example of the ancient Qiang wisdom. Taoping Qiang Village is the world's best-preserved inhabited watchtowers and dwellings integrated into a building complex, having the reputation of "natural air-conditioning". Its perfect underground water network, extending passages, and the labyrinth-like architectural art of the unity of towers have been praised by Chinese and foreign scholars as "living fossils of Qiang architectural art" and "mysterious eastern castles". We will have a leisure walk through the village and walk up one of the watchtower to see more open views of the village.
After the visit, drive to your hotel in Bipeng and relax.
This is a ground tour. Some days involve long hours of driving and sitting in the car. Please make preparation in accordance including power bank for your phone, neck pillow, etc. Remember for the day activities you need to have a day pack with you. In the day pack we only take with us necessary items for the hiking during daytime, including packed lunch or snacks, drinking water recommended 1L minimum, sunglasses, rainproof, warm-keeping clothes and hat, sun block and lip oil, important personal possessions etc. Note the warm-clothing and rainproof (for both yourself and your pack) may not be used while hiking, but since weather changes quickly and hard to predict in the mountains, it's wise to bring these items with you all the time each day.
Total driving 4h, visiting around 2+2h, easy pace
Overnight at hotel at 2100m
Dujiangyan Irrigation Park
Taoping Qiang Village
Start your day with a short ride to the tourist center of Bipeng and then use tourist bus in Bipenggou Park for around 40 minutes. Bipenggou Park is a nature park located north of Siguniangshan, and it is home to many snow-capped mountains and beautiful lakes. The visit starts by the bus ride, and after we arrive the bus terminal we can choose either to walk or use the golf car to go higher to around 4000 meters above sea level inside the park. The walking is not on steep track but rather gradual. At the very end of the track we can even keep exploring more. The higher we go, the more peaks we will see. We will also see forest, waterfalls, rivers. Depending on the season we will also see different colors during different seasons in Bipeng. In summer from May to September we shall see the mountains and valleys in green color and from October to November we shall see Bipenggou in its golden color. From December to the next March we will see Bipenggou in snow.
After today’s visit, drive to hotel in Siguniang via Lixiao Road that is also exceptionally beautiful with the stunning wild valleys and mountains. Lixan Road is a recently built road that goes from Bipeng in Lixian to Siguniang in Xiaojinxian. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful roads in western Sichuan. Arrive in Siguniang and check in to hotel.
Total driving 2-3h, visiting around 6-7h, medium pace
Overnight at hotel at 3100m
Bipenggou in Summer
Bipenggou in May
Bipenggou in November
Mt. Yangmantai
We will have the full morning visit Shuangqiao Valley of Siguniang. First we will go into Shuangqiao Valley where we start our visit by a bus ride to the end of valley and start the tour. Around you there are many stunning peaks some are snow-capped and some are big walls including Mt. Jianshan, Mt. Yutu, Mt. Se'erdengpu, Mt. Potala, Mt. Abi and many more. We can either use bus to make stops along the valley as other visitors do or we can walk on the less-walked boardwalk along the river and enjoy some quiet time in nature. We will tour down the valley following the river and make 4-5 stops total. If by walking then we recommend to walk the first 3-4 stops total 8-12km where the main views of Shuangqiao are located. The walking will be on well-paved boardwalk on flat terrain with no steep part. Shuangqiaogou Valley is a zigzagged, deep and quiet and the longest valley stretching over 35km. We'll see yaks and forest. By halfway down there is a rafting that we can choose to do. It is also a lot of fun to raft down the calm river for around 20 minutes. Today’s visit and walking is flexible.
After the visit, we will then drive back to Chengdu for around total 4 hours. Tour ends.
Total driving 4h, visiting around 6-7h, medium pace
Additionally you may add on one more day by Mt. Siguniang to visit/hike Changping Valley, another valley in Siguniang that is also with stunning natural views.
Shuangqiao Valley
Shuangqiao Valley
Shuangqiao Valley
Shuangqiao
This is a private tour package. It is customizable.
This trip is available all year round.
It involves walking at high altitude (over 2500 meters), so precautions of AMS are necessary.
Traveling to the listed places will expect lower standard services at hotels and restaurants even if they maybe the best choices. The service level is not as up to what you have in places like Chengdu. The hotel people don't speak English nor do the people from restaurants. These places are quite far, wild but beautiful. As authenticity often comes with less comfortability. Public Toilet can be awful. You are always recommended to use your toilet in your hotel while you don't want to use the public toilet or do it in the open wild. You are recommended to have toilet paper with you. Food are with limited options at most of the places. Basically you can find Chinese Food with Sichuan style. On a guided trip you can have them customized into vegetarian or non/less spicy.
This tour involves walking at high altitude at over 3000m, people with cardiac-related conditions, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, arrhythmia, respiratory diseases, obstructive pulmonary diseases (bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, emphysema, active tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis), pregnant women and people who have been diagnosed with high altitude pulmonary edema, high altitude cerebral edema, high altitude hypertension, high altitude heart disease, and high altitude polycythemia are not recommended to do this trip.
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