Day 5 - Maoxian to Jiuzhaigou

Half way of the 4 hours journey, arriving to a place call Dixie lake, it was formed after a massive earth quake decades ago


Our rest area along the mountainous road


Toilet break again, also means Buy! Buy! Buy! again :)


Fruits stall at the rest place, the boss just hit the jackpot


Photo taking with me anyone? RMB10 each


This is call yak in English if I am not wrong. Normally they are black in color, white one is consider sacred so they are spared for heavy work or to be slaughtered. Instead they are brought to tourists area to generate some extra income


Lunch at this simple restaurant ran by natives. Apparently for foreign tourist like us, we can only go to authorized restaurant and this is the only one available on that noon


Our afternoon program is to visit Munigou Valley 牟尼沟, it is located between Maoxian and Jiuzhaigou


Entrance to the park


Tolice ??? Not sure if it means for Police..LOL :)


The stream water are rich in mineral(calcium mainly) so the deposits created unique landscape like these


More landscape


More landscape


This is the main attraction, Zhaga waterfall


It was drizzling and a lot of water droplets, so quite messy for camera man like me


It was a crowded afternoon.


More landscape


More landscape


Some flora along the valley


Car park


Our journey continue with more landscape along the road, these are tribes village, the river in front is Min river, we are closer to the source of the river


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Ascending to higher altitude now


Approaching to Jiuzhangou


No more gloomy sky, yup! this is the fairyland.

Day 4 - Emei to Maoxian

On our 4 hours ride from Emei to Maoxian 茂县, we could see a lot of massive construction like this


Cabin view of our coach, everyone still looks fresh, thanks to the spectacular landscape view outside


Some beautiful country side sceneries


Break is necessary not only for human, machine included. Apparently they will need to top up the water tank of the bus, the water is used to cool down the break system by injecting water vapor during breaking to reduce the wearing in mountainous road like these


Toilet break, a lot of these along the road and are run by native tribes people 藏族, cost RMB0.50 per entry


The toilet is overlooking the Min river and hanging in the middle of high cliff, it was bright and windy, a bit chilly so with nice natural view like this, no wonder everyone will smile while doing their business


Some of us top up our stomach with spicy soup noodles while waiting for our coach to refill, everyone looks happy so it was a nice break


A canola flower along the road side


The plant is planted all over the field as extra source of income for the natives -- to be process into canola oil


Our hotel (3 stars rated), can't remember the name. It was run by native "Qiang tribes" 羌族 people


More hotel view


Hotel lobby, basic but sufficient considering this is a place that's in the middle of nowhere. There was a black out of the whole town in one of the night but we were lucky that this hotel has it's own generator to power the heater, if not everyone will have a freezing night with temperature close to 0c


This is a souvenir shop


Our room for the night


Morning view


Morning view from our hotel

Day 4 - Emei Baoguoshi

The next day, we visited "Bao Guo Shi", located beneath the Emei mountain


Btw Emei mountain is a Unesco World Heritage protected and preservation site


Nice landscape around the area


With water fall, wow


The side view of the monastery


The frontal of the monastery


Close up shots


The main compound


It forms by a cluster of temples that hosted different Buddhas


Take a break, have a chit-chat


This is the temple of the goddess of mercy 观音菩萨


Some landscape shots


More landscape shots


More landscape shots


More landscape shots


More landscape shots


More landscape shots


More landscape shots


Toilet with LCD? U bet


It's time to go guys


Lunch in Bao Xu Tang, there will be sales talk after the meal on Chinese medicines. Again at a premium price so you have to weight what is the reasonable price to pay if really need it.