Just Me..: The beauty of Jiuzhaigou

Thursday, July 31, 2014

The beauty of Jiuzhaigou

A wonderful color of Jiuzhaigou

Jiuzhaigou, I read about it once. Saw the picture once. And i fall in love with this place forever. Located in Sichuan Province, Chengdu - China, this place are highly recommended for all natural scenery lovers. Maybe some of you have watched Chinese Kungfu series and movie, theme on that movies mainly taken or inspired by this place.

It tooks around 8 hours from Xinnanmen Bus Station, Chengdu to this place. Its a long way to go, but its more than just worth it. I booked my ticket one day before to save my schedule. Bus departed around 8 Am and arrived in Jiuzhaigou at 4. You have to spend minimum 3 days to enjoy this place, unless you take a flight. Two days for traveling time and one full day for sightseeing. The area is very huge, if you have more time, its better to stay longer.

I met with Victor, a russian guy, at bus station. I run into him since i cant escape from the locals who force me to stay at their place. We ended up to stay at the same hostel, the same dormitory and spend a few hours outside Jiuzaighou before take a rest and get ready to explore tomorrow. But some people join us at the dormitory, 2 chinese students who bring along a friends guy that soon being my travelmate in Chengdu.

Its Li Xie and Siao Yue. The two brilliant student from Shanghai, they just graduated and got scholarship in US. So, they want to have this trip before leaving their country. While the French guy, JP, he met Li Xie through CS and plan to have this trip together, surprisingly he plan to stay at the Friendshouse in Chengdu. So we will meet again soon!!

Victor went out earlier in the morning, lucky for him because its raining when the four us get ready to enter the park. But we never give up, we got our umbrella and raincoat and always ready to chase the best scenery ever. And i thought most of the visitor feel the same way, because the entrance ticket are very crowded at that time. The entrance ticket is expensive, and we envy with those chinese students who got 50% discount at most of the chinese tourism spot. Should i study in China then?

Every single step of the park was beautiful, very beautiful and the most beautiful. Hahahha.. forestry, small river, wooden bridge, running waterfall, its stunning view everywhere, anywhere. But yeah, the best thing is never easy, even tracking for the whole day seems not enough to reach the whole park.