Rilong Town

Rilong Town is called Rilong Zhen in Chinese. It is a village at the base of Mt. Siguniang and the stopover place for people who visit Mt Siguniang. By now Rilong is called Siguniangshan Zhen (Siguniang Shan Town). Rilong is located 200km west to the city of Chengdu with now only 4 hours drive to get to. There is also bus available to get to Rilong from Chengdu. In another word Rilong refers to Mt. Siguniang and Mt. Siguniang more often used by travelers but local people use Rilong more often.

Rilong - Mt. Siguniang

Mt. Siguniang Changping Village

Rilong

At Rilong you can find hotels, restaurants, gear shops with basic camping and trekking gears. Rilong itself is just a cluster of houese and shops along the road that goes further west to Danba and Tagong. Here at Rilong you will find people don't speak much English but good Chinese. Rilong is also where you find porter team for your trekking.

There is a small bank in Rilong but it doesn't work for foreign bank cards. And foreign bank cards don't work anywhere in Rilong not even at the hotels. If you are a foreign traveler, alwasys use cahs. There is a simple hospital in Rilong that if anyone suffers any injuries or altitude sickness they can do treatment but the condition there is limited to only deal with simplier cases.

Food is with limited option but if you are not fussy about food you can always find something if you are preparing food for your mountain trip. Gas canisters and simple stoves are also available but limited in both sorts and amounts.

For lodging hikers Rilong is the place where you come back every night and go out to hike every day. Altitude at Rilong is between 3000 meters and 3100 meters,, a perfect altitude for acclimating. Please note that the entrance of Shuangqiao is already not in Rilong, and the altitude of entrance of Shuangqiao is at below 3000 meters.