Jiuzhaigou Things to Do

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The Arrow Bamboo Lake is where the movie The Hero was filmed. Director Zhang YiMou selected this site because of its open space and dark blue water.

This used to be the feeding site of giant pandas where large amount of arrow bamboo are grown.

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Shuzheng Lake Clusters stretches for several miles and with a drop of about 100 meters and has 19 lakes.

Shuzheng Waterfall, Potted Landscape Lake, Mill House, Heya Village are all within walking distances.

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Shuzheng Waterfall is a multi level waterfall the surface of the waterfall is shaped like the lotus leaf.

There are vegetations on top of the waterfall where you can still the red autumn leaves and yellow leaves The waterfall water runs down very slowly over the shallow shoal and splits into thousands of min water falls.

The Shuzheng Waterfall pictures are best taken from top of the steps and on the platform.

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The Reed Lake is a semi-swamp lake with thick weeds all over. The reeds are parting the deep blue lake.

In autumn and winter, reeds turn eye-striking golden yellow.

Reeds usually grow below an altitude of 800 meters. I wonder how they can surive in the high altitude of Jiuzhaigou?

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I have only seen bonsai grown on soil but not a lake of bonsai.

At the potted landscape shoal, you will see a lake of bonsai growing on the river.

Some of the bonsai could be as tall as me or even taller.

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There are three reasons or myth about the naming of Tiger Lake.

It stood next to the Shuzheng Waterfalls which roars like a tiger.

In late autumn, the reflections of the red autumn leaves and colorful hues creates a reflected image of the tiger stripes.

Tigers do appear out from the forest to have a drink by this lakeside.

It however seems like a piece of sunken wood in the lake.

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Zechawa Village is not too far from Nuorilang Bus Terminal.

This is near to the place where we had our buffet lunch. You could just take a short walk from Nuorilang Tourist Service Centre and have a quick look at the environment that the villagers lived in.

The clusters of Tibetian log houses with religious flags and banners are where the Tibetian lived in. You may approach them secretly if you would like to stay over in the park.

The bus we took from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou was small and old. The roads in the mountains were narrow. We stayed over night in a small town somewhere - We had no idea of the name of the town or how far it was from Chengdu. We only knew, that our back and our knees were hurting from about 10 hours driving through the mountainious landscape.