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Destinations Visited: Chengdu - Qingchengshan - Bipenggou (2 night) - Dujiangyan
Departure: Private Tour / Flexible Date
This is a 3-day trip from Chengdu into the mountains of Qionglaishan with a visit to the big mountains, alpine valleys along with visits to local ancient fortress Taoping, and the side trips to Mt. Qingcheng and Dujiangyan Irrigation Park. This trip is perfect to see some nature around Chengdu with limited time, a good alternative of Jiuzhaigou.
Book NowThis tour to Bipeng also includes 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 Mt. Qingcheng first. Mt. Qingcheng is a Taoist mountain in China on the way to Bipeng Valley. This mountain is believed to be the origin of Chinese Taoism and has over a dozen of temples including Shangqing Temple, Laojun Pagoda, etc. You will have a first glimpse of green scenery on this trip. A bit of walking in here is also good exercise for your next day’s visit. After the visit in Qingchengshan, keep driving to the mountains and check in hotel in Bipenggou. Today we will drive for around 4 hours total.
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 3-4h, easy pace
Overnight at hotel at 2300m
Qingchengshan Shangqing Temple
Qingchengshan Laojun Pagoda
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 June to September we shall see the mountains and valleys in green color and from September to November we shall see Bipenggou in its golden color. After today’s visit, drive to hotel in Gu’ergou where we can choose an optional hot spring bath. The drive is around 30 minutes.
Total driving 2h, visiting around 6-7h, easy pace
Overnight at hotel at 2200m
Bipenggou Lake
Mt. Yangmantai
Start to drive back to Chengdu and on the way, 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 we will have lunch before continue drive back to Chengdu with a stop and visit to Dujiangyan Irrigation System. 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. After Dujiangyan we will drive back to Chengdu and send you to your hotel. Tour ends.
Total driving 3h, visiting around 4-5h, easy pace
Taoping Qiang Village
Dujiangyan Irrigation Park
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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