2D2N Jiuzhaigou itinerary

Sharing my itinerary so maybe it can help you! One thing i have to highlight is that be prepared for altitude sickness. Elevation goes to around 3500m and I could already feel it on the train heading to jiuzhaigou and the bus route has lots of turns and during the rest stop i had to 🤢 🤢 so if you have any meds make sure to take it BEFORE!! Journey: Chongqing (shapingba station) to chengdu east station (1h) Chengdu east station to huanglongjiuzhai station (1h50m) Huanglongjiuzhai station to jiuzhaigou scenic area by bus (2h) P.S you can buy bus tickets directly from trip and when you reach you can find the bus driver on the right hand side, just tell him your last 4 digits phone number. (Don’t need a local number just your singapore one is fine) The bus will stop at multiple places within the scenic area, so you can tell your driver where your hotel is and ask which stop. Arrival (Night) If you are like me and the altitude hits hard, take it easy. Have lots of rest, eat soupy stuff and eat chocolate! Even a snickers bar or something with sugar and chocolate helps. For us we arrived at our hotel around like 8pm so my boyfriend went out to takeaway dinner at a nearby restaurant while i just rested. Day 1 Most hotels in the area offer free transport to the lake so make use of that, because i wasnt feeling so well we left at around 11 but would definitely recommend leaving at 9:30-10 to make the most out of your day. The shape of the park is a Y so after you go through the park bus will take you to the fork which is near nourilang waterfall. There you can decide which route you want to take. For us, we stayed on the bus and took us all the way to the top of the right side. Because the valley and the forest were closed, the furthest they take you is Arrow Bamboo Lake. From Arrow bamboo lake you can walk all the way down to pearl shoal waterfall and then taking the bus to mirror lake and then back to the nuorilang bus terminal. If you aren’t the hiking type, theres a bus stop at every area so not to worry! All in all we took about 3 hours doing that entire right section. After the right side, you can do the left side by taking a bus which will take you to long lake. This is the highest point at 3200m so be careful with altitude sickness. I didn’t feel as sick but i was so dizzy and my head hurt. The journey is about 30mins. We didn’t stay for long because by this time it was nearly 4pm and the workers were telling us theres not much time left before the park closes. So we just stayed in the viewpoint area, took a few pics and went back on the bus. The next stop is the 5 colored lake, we got dropped off at the top of the lake and walked down to the bus stop where we were taken back to the bus terminal. Im not sure if its cuz its winter but those were the only 2 places we could visit on the left side. After this, the bus took us straight to the exit and that was the end of our visit to jiuzhaigou, we reached back to the entrance at 5:30pm That night we walked over to the tourist part of the town and had Mcdonalds for dinner 🤪🤪 took a didi back to our hotel and ended the night. Day 2 Our train from huanglongjiuzhai was at 1pm so we left the hotel at around 10am. We met a didi driver the night before who said he would take us straight to the station for 200 yuan and we took it. But i also asked the hotel what option there was and theres a bus you can book thru wechat but trip also has tickets you can get. Things i would have done better - visited nourilang before going up to the left side. We thought we could stop by before going to the exit but because its towards closing they drove us straight to the exit - dressed up in the tibetan clothes, usually wouldn’t recommend but i saw many girls getting dressed up and i regret not actually doing it - would probably recommend 2 days to visit jiuzhaigou because it felt kind of rushed theres the whole section of the park heading towards the exit that you can explore but i made do with just looking out the window of the bus 😂😂 Anyways thats all for now! Got lots to share about my 2 week adventure in china visiting 4 different cities 😂😂#china #travel #naturalwonders #jiuzhaigou