Sunday, December 20, 2009

Jiuzhaigou: wonderland on earth. 五岳归来不看山,九寨归来不看水

I visited Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan China during the last week of October 2009. Domestic flights from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou were fully booked till November, so I went by road. The bus journey took a whole day (13 hours) each way. Sections of the road were still under repair (some sections were newly constructed to replace those damaged by the great quake in 2008). The road journey was hard, but scenery along the way were great.

Jiuzhaigou is on high altitudes (between 2500m - 3000m above sea level), but Jiuzhaigou is all about water: natural dams, waterfalls, and wetlands.














This is an example of the extensive damage caused by the great quake in May 2008:


1 comment:

  1. 还有黄山归来不看岳... 黄山去了吗?很棒哦!

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