[2025 Shimian Attraction] Travel Guide for Wang Gang Ping Tourist Attraction (Updated Apr)

1 Wanggangping is not only for viewing Gongga. Wanggangping Attraction is located in the north of Wanggangping Township, Shimian County, Ya'an City, east of Dadu River, and the southern foot of Gongga Mountain. The straight-line distance between the Attraction and the main peak of Gongga Mountain is only 30km. Standing on Wanggangping, Shushan is in the center, performing the king's feast of "Sunlight on the Golden Mountain" and "Moonlight on the Silver Mountain". Wanggangping Attraction is a full-dimensional natural viewing platform close to Gongga Mountain. It is the first snow mountain viewing platform along the 318 line. It can be viewed from more than 200 snow mountain peaks above 5,000 meters above sea level. The mysterious ruins of "Yak County", the first provincial capital in Ya'an's history, are located here. One mountain to view the four seasons, all four seasons are wonderful. Spring is a good season to enjoy the azalea, summer is a summer retreat, autumn is a colorful forest, and winter is a skiing season. Spring is a good season to watch Gongga Snow Mountain. The unique spring colorful forest is even more beautiful than autumn. In summer, the cool forest at 18℃, walk out of the humid basin, say goodbye to the hot and humid summer, and it can be very dry to escape the summer heat. In autumn, the colorful forests are all over the mountains, the forests are dyed red, and the starry sky is bright, creating a hidden health resort. In winter, the silver-clad Gongga is enchanting, immersed in the white fairy tale world, and intoxicated by the stunning golden mountain and sea of clouds. The Shushan Eden Attraction has an altitude ranging from 1,100 meters to 3,660 meters. All the viewing spots are unique. The sun shining on the golden mountain, the cloud waterfall and sea of clouds, the vast starry sky, the ice sculpture rime, the snow mountain pasture, the azalea sea, the Buddha's light, the moon shining on the silver mountain, the ancient yak city, the Gongga flag cloud, the jungle strange tree, the golden mountain sunset and other stunning landscapes constitute the twelve sacred scenes of Wanggangping. Wanggangping Township, where the Yi and Tibetan Township Attraction in Sichuan Province is located, is located at the intersection of the Han, Tibetan, Qiang and Yi multicultural intersection and the traditional ethnic corridor. It is a transitional zone combining Han culture and ethnic culture. There are many local Yi and Tibetan people, and they have rich Tibetan and Yi culture. Introduction to Muya Tibetan Culture Gongga Snow Mountain is also called "Muya Gongga" and "Minya Gongga" by Muya Tibetan compatriots. Muya Tibetans are roughly distributed around Gongga Mountain, so Gongga Mountain has always been a sacred mountain for Muya people. The characteristics of Muya Tibetans are reflected in language. People here speak a Muya language called "Rongge", which has only language but no writing, and is only used inside the village. Muya Tibetans in Shimian welcome their grand festival on the 15th day of the winter month every year - the Buddha Sunning Festival, which is also the Muya people's "Returning the Mountain Chicken Festival" (using white chickens for sacrifice). On that day, they will carry out a grand sacrificial activity around the huge thangka handed down from the Tang Dynasty. Wanggangping of Ersu Tibetans is located in the Tibetan-Yi Corridor. Tibetans, Yi, Han and other ethnic groups have been integrated and developed here for thousands of years, and cultural tourism resources are rich and unique. Our visitor center also uses many cultural symbols and elements of Ersu and Muya Tibetans. Ersu Tibetans worship sacred mountains and sacred trees, and believe that all things have spirits. Saba is the original propagator of the local folk of the Ersu Tibetans, and is the name of the priests and great masters of the tribe. In the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, the Ersu Tibetans will usher in the grand festival of the "Guzazi Festival". The Guzazi Festival, also known as the Huanshan Chicken Festival, is a provincial intangible cultural heritage and a unique traditional festival with ethnic characteristics of the Ersu Tibetans. Around the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, the Ersu Tibetans worship their ancestors, pray for blessings, celebrate the New Year, and celebrate the harvest. It is also called the August New Year Festival. 2 Special Recommendations for the Rich Tourism Resources around Gongga Snow Mountain Gongga Holy Scenery, primitive forests, flower sea pastures, astronomical wonders, precious animals and plants, ethnic culture, yak ancient city and other precious resources have constructed a rich tourism resource cluster in southwest China. It is a leisure resort suitable for all ages. Compared with other Gongga viewing platforms, it has a low altitude (average altitude 2,600 meters), a high forest coverage rate (85%), rich negative oxygen ions, and complete entertainment and leisure facilities. It can fully meet all the travel needs of all ages from old to young, including food, accommodation, and transportation. Situational natural hiking exploration destination Various situational experience environments: wonderland, fairyland, fantasy, secret land, state of mind... Various exploration types: snow-capped mountains, forests, animals, mysterious ruins, meteorology and astronomy... 3 Travel time All year round. The average annual temperature is 15℃, the average annual frost-free period is 310 days, the average annual rainfall is 800mm, and the average annual sunshine hours are more than 1,300 hours. The hottest month is August, and the temperature is below 25℃. The coldest month is January, but the temperature can reach 27℃ when it is sunny. The average annual snow accumulation period is more than 100 days. The weather is mainly sunny and cloudy, and the time to view Mount Gongga throughout the year is more than 200 days. 4 Sightseeing Guide In the summer snow mountain forest summer resort season, you need to take the cable car to Daping from the tourist center to the mountain, and then take a sightseeing bus to and from. The Daping halfway up the mountain and the three pings on the top of the mountain in the Attraction are all full-dimensional sightseeing views. Erping provides forest hiking adventures with different difficulty indexes and good scenery. 5 Other Tips The Attraction belongs to the mountain climate based on the mid-latitude subtropical monsoon climate. Affected by the terrain, the climate has a distinct vertical distribution. The four seasons are distinct, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. You need to pay attention to the cold and warm matching of your clothes, and try to bring more clothes. The scenic spots are mainly visited by sightseeing buses, and the strange forest is mainly experienced by hiking. It is recommended to bring shoes that are easy to walk. There is sufficient sunshine in the Attraction, and you need to be prepared for ultraviolet protection. 6 Introduction to the scenic spot Cloud Cableway The starting point of the Attraction cableway is located in Yejiagou (visitor center), with an altitude of 1,100 meters. The cableway is 3,500 meters long, with a drop of 1,200 meters between the upper and lower stations. The whole journey takes about 10 minutes. This is a snow mountain viewing cableway. When the cableway climbs to the second step, the Gongga peaks in the distance begin to slowly appear. At the same time, this is also the most thrilling cableway in China. Yak Ancient City During the Western Han Dynasty, provincial-level administrative regions appeared in Yazhou. The capital of Yazhou is located in Yak County, the former home of the Zao people, and the ruins of the county seat are located in Wanggangping at the junction of Hanyuan and Shimian counties. The prosperity of history has been lost. The ancient county town of Yak County, Yak City, built here has gone through more than 2,000 years of wind and rain, leaving behind colorful cultural resources, waiting for us to explore and experience. Wanggangping, a cloud-top pasture, has a flat terrain, covered with meadows, shrubs, and grass. In spring and summer, there is abundant rainfall, gurgling springs flow in the mountains, and the dry swamps also wake up, which is very suitable for grazing. On the top of the mountain, under the snow-capped mountains, in the forest, the leisurely cows and agile horses, compared with the Saibei scenery of "the sky is vast, the wilderness is vast, and the cows and sheep are seen when the grass blows low", is it a different scenery? The high mountain lake in the Gongga Lake Wanggangping Attraction has a wide field of vision, and the Gongga peaks can be reflected in the water, forming a Gongga reflection landscape with the Souvenir pastures and flowers. A tree with vigorous vitality grows in Wanggangping, a strange forest. The trees have various postures and strong branches, like heroic soldiers; the branches are majestic and savage, like ferocious monsters; the roots are intertwined and the branches are horizontal, like dragons going out to sea; they are entangled and hold each other, like lingering lovers... Some tree trunks have fallen for decades without decaying, and some new buds have sprouted one after another, bursting out the second spring of life, together with the criss-crossing branches and trunks with ferns, lichens, mosses, azaleas, usnea and other plants, forming a miniature three-dimensional landscape. The Millennium Azalea Forest has thousands of azaleas growing in the jungle of Wanggangping. Below 2,800 meters above sea level, the main species is small-leaf azalea, and the flower color is mainly light blue or purple-blue. Above 2,800 meters above sea level, the main species is large-leaf azalea, with 7 colors such as red, yellow, white and purple. Every year from May to June, azaleas bloom gradually on the mountain, red, yellow, white, purple, pink, all over the mountain, the fragrance of flowers is pervasive, refreshing, and intoxicating. Facing the Gongga Mountains, it is a good place to enjoy the Gongga Snow Mountain. According to legend, praying for one minute when you can see Gongga Mountain is equivalent to praying at home for ten years; being able to see the beautiful scenery of Gongga in the sun can also bring good luck for a year. The towering Gongga peaks, lined up in a row, surround the King of Shu Mountains, presenting a fairyland-like visual feast. The sky is the curtain, the earth is the stage, and nature has laid out a beautiful snow mountain feast here. Wanggangping Gongga Ski Resort, the world's most beautiful ski resort, is located in the Daping area of the Attraction, 2,400 meters above sea level, so there is no need to worry about altitude sickness. It is praised as the "global landscape ski resort" by Canadian and French ski resort design experts. You can ski in short sleeves facing the sacred Gongga Mountain and basking in the warm winter sun. During the opening period in 2021, CCTV News Network, Morning News and other authoritative CCTV programs focused on it 7 times. Wear short sleeves to ski and experience ~ Colorful cloud slides bring family and friends to play a free drift of cloud rainbow. The rainbow that appears in the cloud in the entertainment project "Rainbow Slide" makes people eager to try, go and play and experience the time story in the fairy tale. Mengte Mengji Crazy Park 7 Transportation relies on Provincial Highway 211 to connect National Highway 318 and Beijing-Kunming Expressway, connect to the Yakang three-dimensional transportation system, and connect to the Chengdu-Chongqing Panxi area. Driving distance from Souvenir cities: about 1.5 hours from Ya'an City, Kangding, and Leshan; about 2 hours from Xichang; about 3.5 hours from Chengdu; 36km from Shimian County, 0.5 hours by car. Chengdu-Wanggangping Scenic Attraction Direct Bus: No. 61, Section 1, North Second Ring Road, Jinniu District (Inside the gate of Chengdu Transport General Fifth Branch at Exit A of Southwest Jiaotong University Station, Metro Line 6/7) Chengdu departure time: 7:30 am every day. Public transportation: First go to Chengdu, you can take a bus from Shiyangchang Station to Shimian County New Station. After arriving at Shimian New Station, you need to transfer to Shimian Old Station to take a bus to Wanggangping Township. 8 Accommodation recommendations Wanggangping Junlan Resort Hotel: A star-rated wild luxury resort hotel hidden in the mountains and forests, the best experience of lying on the bed to watch Gongga. Muyunzhuang Forest Cabin: The primitive forest watcher, the watcher of nature, the shelled turtle ecological camp hotel: The star-watching star for wilderness travelers is a perfect combination of wild nature and high technology, with a comfortable holiday experience. Lai Ye Ecological Tent Camp: The castle in the fairy tale, the ecological wild luxury tent experience, makes people fall in love with quality camping. Gongga Starry Sky Tent Camp: It is a perfect experience to be close to nature and love life. The Attraction has specially launched a tent camp experience for tourists. Talking with the stars at night and watching the sunrise in the morning has become an Internet celebrity experience in the Attraction. The moment tourists open the tent, they can see the sky full of stars and have close contact with the glory of Gongga. They all shouted: "It's so beautiful!" "It's worth it!" 9 Junlan Food Tibetan Fragrant Pork Tuotuo Meat. Use 4 to 5 month old Tibetan fragrant pork, and use the traditional Tuotuo meat making method of Yi mothers. It is spicy and fragrant, with a strong childhood fragrant pig flavor. In the Yak Ancient City, the "Feast of the King" launched continues the traditional way of dining on grand festivals of the Tibetan and Yi people, and is made with local high-quality meat, fruits and flowers. It uses plateau yak meat, Tibetan fragrant pigs of about five months old, free-range grass chickens in Shimian Caoke Township, local seasonal fruits, and colorful Gesang flowers that represent happiness and auspiciousness as decorations, accompanied by hand-made butter tea, to create a rich, nutritious, and beautiful gluttonous feast. Specialties of Wanggangping Township: Huangguogan, beef and mutton, alpine bacon, as well as Gastrodia elata, Fritillaria thunbergii, etc. 10 Recommended itinerary Starting from Chengdu, Wanggangping Attraction is the first stop of the 318 Tibet Entry and a check-in point for the Ya'an-Xichang Sky Road. Recommended route: Classic three-day tour D1: Chengdu-Shimian-Wanggangping Starting from Chengdu, take the Chengya Expressway (or Chengming Expressway) to Ya'an, then take the Ya'an-Xichang Expressway and exit the expressway from Shimian. The Ya'an-Xichang Expressway is known as the "Asian Sky Road", driving in the clouds, with beautiful scenery all the way. You can rest and have a meal in Shimian. After lunch, you can visit the Souvenir attractions Anshunchang and Xieluobaozi, then take Provincial Highway 211 along the Dadu River Canyon to Wanggangping Township, and then continue to drive in the direction of Yejiagou. There are signs in Wanggangping Township to lead to the Attraction. D2: Wanggangping one-day tour to watch the sunrise of Gongga, enjoy flowers, hike in the strange forest, take pictures, relax, camp in the starry sky... According to your temperament, choose your favorite way to relax and relax. D3: Wanggangping - Luding - Chengdu Attraction Continue along Provincial Highway 211 to Luding. You will pass Hailuogou, Luding Bridge and other scenic spots on the way. You can choose whether to stop according to actual needs. Enjoy the scenery of Dadu River along the way and feel the customs and customs of the eastern slope of Gongga Mountain. Rest and have a meal in Luding, then take the Yakang Expressway to Ya'an, and then take the Chengya Expressway (or Chengming Expressway) back to Chengdu. This three-day tour route can also be reversed. Souvenir attractions: Xieluobaozi (Ersu Tibetan Village), Anshunchang (Red Tourism), Luding Bridge (Red Tourism), Hanyuan Jiuxiang flower viewing, tasting, picking various fruits. Shimian cuisine: Shimian special barbecue.