Price: CNY6600 PP/ 4 pax group (or more pax), CNY7500 PP/ 3 pax group, CNY8800 PP/ 2 pax group, CNY12800 PP/ 1 pax group
Destinations Visited: Aba (2 nights)
Departure: Private Tour Only/ Flexible Date
This is a short expedition of 3 days to a 5000m summit from Chengdu as an alternative to Siguniang Dafeng. You will have the chance to go up to the summit of a 5000 meters summit near Siguniang.
Book NowThis is a gound tour. Some days involve long hours of driving and sitting in the car. Please make preparation in accordance. Please remember to have a day pack with you to take necessary items for each day's visit, sometimes including packed lunch or snacks for yourself, drinking water recommended 1L minimum, sunglasses, rainproof, warm-keeping clothes and hat, sun block and lip oil, etc. It is also wise to bring rainproof and warm clothes with you all the time.
A 4-hour drive from Chengdu to Rilong at the base of Mount Siguniang. We will start from Chengdu at your hotel in the morning by around 8.00 am and drive towards west into the mountains. The road is in the former earthquake-zone and you may still see the damages on the mountains from the quake in 2008. A new road was finished by end of 2016 and making the driving safer and quicker. Most of the drive will be in the mountains after Dujiangyan. The mountain road is in one of the biggest panda sactuaries in China. After lunch, keep driving into the mountains while elevation rises up to around 3800 meters and we will have a short acclimating walk by Balang (or Jiajin) for around 2-4 hours with easy pace. After the walk drive down to village and overnight in lodge.
Driving 4-5h, hiking 2h+, easy Pace
Overnight hotel by around 2800-3000m
Today is a full day acclimating either Jiajin at over 4000m or by the Jieji valley over 3900m pending acclimating places due to access. Today's acclimating is essential and necessary for next day's summit as it will go as high to 5000m.
We will acclimate the whole morning for 2-4 hours and then in the afternoon go to the village and have a basic training on using the technical gears. And you will be briefed on the planning of summitting day.
Hiking 4-6km, flexible, easy to medieum Pace
Overnight hotel by 3000m
Today is our summitting day. We will start by 2am and use 40 min local car ride to the road end at 3700m. From there we start to walk up 700m in 7km to BC. Then after a break push from BC for another 700m to the summit at 5086m in 4km. After summit come back the same way. You will arrive back to Chengdu by around 7-8pm. Please note in bad weather day. We won't try summit.
Total walking 22km in 16h, streunous pace
1, This is an alternative tour to Dafeng Summit. It may still have changes in different seasons, please send your iqnuiry to us before signing up.
2, This trip is available from Jan to Dec.
3, Private tour only but certain part of the trip you'll share everything with other people (lodge, trail, local transfers).
4, This trip involves a short section of technical climb before the summit. It's better you have experience of using technical gears.
5, 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. Lodges and bathroom are shared. In some places you are not able to take shower. You are recommended to have toilet paper with you. Food are with limited options at most of the places.
6, This tour involves walking at high altitude at over 3000m, people with cardiac-related conditions, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, arrhythmia, respiratory diseases, obstructive pulmonary diseases (bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, emphysema, active tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis), pregnant women and people who have been diagnosed with high altitude pulmonary edema, high altitude cerebral edema, high altitude hypertension, high altitude heart disease, and high altitude polycythemia are not recommended to do this trip.
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