Price: between USD400 to USD600
Destinations Visited: Yading
Departure: Group Tour / Fixed Date
This is a domestic Chinese tour gourps to Daocheng Yading. It is total 5 days starting and ending in Chengdu. It has available departures almost every week or even every day during busy travel season. This tour is a good choice for budget travelers and for travelers who can speak mandarin to to join the group to cut down costs.
Book NowYour Yading Adventure starts by riding from Chengdu into the wild west of Sichuan. Along the way you have the chance to see the landscape over your window and stops for toilets and lunch. The road you will be on is the famous national highway 318, which is used by many off-the-main-road travelers who want to see the beautiful nature and great Tibet. You will probably see some hardcore cyclists on the road or even hikers. It is a pleasure to feel that you are traveling here to see the views that most people won’t have the chance to see. After a day’s drive normally about 8 to 9 hours, arrive in your hotel in Xinduqiao, a stopover place for people going further place here. If you are a photo lover, Xinduqiao is a good place where you may catch good moments of photos by dust or dawn. Overnight Xinduqiao or Yajiang.
Xinduqiao is at the altitude of around 3500 meters so you had better take suggestions from your guide about how to deal with mountain sickness and other safety issues. You will keep driving for this day too. Today on the road you will see views from very high places. The road is at altitude around 4000 meters passing several high mountain passes. There are places you stop for toilets and take photos. After Litang, you will pass the splendid Haizi Shan and down to Shangti-La town, formerly named Riwa, the town by the entrance of Yading Park. Its elevation is at 2800 meters, a good offset of the former day’s tension. Check in hotel and overnight here.
Today is a full day visiting yading park including Pearl Lake, Chenrezig, Chenardorje, Jampayang, Milk Lake, 5-color Lake. Today's visit involve long hours of walking at high altitude. Please assess your own physical conditions before cosume on the long walk to Milk Lake. Listen to your guide's suggestions.
Today's the day to go back to Chengdu. It involves long drive.
Drive back to Chengdu full day and have a good rest on your bus/car. This is the day you start to recover from the stress of traveling and simmering the aftertaste of Yading. Your Yading Adventure tour ends.
1. Please send your inquiry to get more details on booking policies.
2. Staff may not speak English. Please be fully aware of this before you sign up.
3. Elevation at most of these sights are quite high as much to 4800 meters. Precautions for mountain sickness are necessary as well. Rain proof and Sun block are also necessary when you are traveling at these places for weather changes quickly at high altitude.
5. This is a ground tour. It goes to places where the tourist facilities may not meet with standards. Western Sichuan is not a fully-developed place and unexpected incidents may happen due to bad weather, landslide in certain seasons and possible heavy traffic jams.
6. Traveling to the listed places will expect lower standard services at hotels and restaurants even if they maybe the best choices. The service level is not as up to what you have in places like Chengdu. The hotel people don't speak English nor do the people from restaurants. These places are quite far, wild but beautiful. As authenticity comes often with less comfortability. Public Toilet can be really bad. You are always recommended to use your toilet in your hotel while you don't want to use the public toilet or do it in the open wild. You are recommended to have toilet paper with you. Food are with limited options at most of the places. Basically you can find Chinese Food with Sichuan style. On a guided trip you can have them customized into vegetarian or non/less spicy.
