Jiuzhaigou Transportation

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There are tours and busses from Chengdu.

Things change very fast in China so I provided and address to a comical web site about transportation to Jiuzhaigou. I googled (Jiuzhaigou chengdu bus) to find this one. It seems to have good info.

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This driver has a VW Santana 3000. He is called Mr. Shen, originally a Tibetan. I actually prefer this driver as I feel he is more honest.

Typical day trip from Jiu Zhai Gou to Huang Long is CNY 400 - 600 in high season.

It is handy, also necessary to hire a TAXI to get around. Usually you agree a price with the driver up front and don't pay by meter.

Mr. Zhang is a very experienced driver, has a new VW Santana Vista, clean and big enough for a group of 4.

He is very nice and has a good sense of hummer. Attached is his name card.

It is wise to go to JiuZhaiGou by fight. Because the bus really takes too long, and the road condition is quite poor. I suggest departure from ChengDu (SiChuan) to HuangLong Airport.

Then visit the views in HuangLong first. Then take bus/taxi from HuangLong to JiuZhaiGou. The distance is about 100km.

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A Jiuzhai Gou se puede ir desde Chengdu en autobús , son 580 Kms y se tardan once o doce horas .
Nosotros decidimos ir en avión desde Xian al aeropuerto de Jiuzhaigou/Huanglong que está en Chuanzhusi Town y la primera gran impresión la tuvimos ya a la llegada , pues el aeropuerto está rodeado de montañas nevadas y a una altura de 3.500m .
Para llegar al parque hay que desplazarse 80 kms , así que en el aeropuerto tomamos un taxi , que sale en cuanto se llenan las ocho o nueve plazas del mini bus y cuesta 45 Yuan por persona
Cuando llegas a Jiuzhai Gou te dejan en el hotel que has reservado . en nuestro caso no teníamos reservas , así que vimos las caras sorprendidas del conductor y de los otros viajeros .
Funcionó el Angel de la Guarda , y entre el coductor y un viajero ( luego amigo) Chino-Americano nos solucionaron el problema


You can go to Jiuzhai Gou from Chengdu by bus , there are 580 kilometers and it takes eleven or twelve hours.
We decided to go by plane from Xian to Jiuzhaigou/Huanglong airport located in Chuanzhusi Town and we had the first big impression already upon arrival because the airport is surrounded by snowcapped mountains and at a height of 3.500m.
To reach the park you must travel 80 kms , so we took a taxi in the airport ,that leaves as soon as they fill the eight or nine seats of the mini bus and it costs 45 Yuan per person
When you reach Jiuzhai Gou they leave you in the hotel you have reserved . In our case we had not any reservation , so we saw the impressed face of the the driver and all the passengers . On this case the Guardian Angels did their job and with the help of the driver and a Chinese American traveler ( latter a friend ) the problem was solved

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Para moverse dentro del parque hay unos autobuses ecológicos , que funcionan con gas y que los llaman Los Autobuses Verdes.
En temporada alta , es increíble como mueven con toda facilidad y comodidad a miles de personas
Salen del centro de visitas y van parando y recogiendo a la gente en diversas paradas en todos los recorridos del parque . Al principio te agobia la gente , pero poco a poco según te adentras en el parque va desapareciendo la gente , además de que por un lado de los ríos está la carretera y por el otro hay senderos por donde se puede pasear pacíficamente y con toda tranquilidad . Nos recomendaron que fuéramos primero hasta el final de la ruta que queda a la derecha y que desde allí bajáramos caminando y tomando el autobús cuando estuviéramos cansados ; fueron más de 18 Kms pero el paseo es muy suave , cuesta abajo y como sólo piensas en las maravillas que estás viendo te olvidas del cansancio
El autobús cuesta 90 Yuan cada día , pero dicen que en temporada baja el precio puede ser la mitad y que si subes andando los primeros cinco Kms. , a partir de aquí puedes coger los autobuses sin pagar

To move inside the park there are some ecological buses, which run on gas and are named the Green Bus .
During high season, they move thousands of people very easy without jams and very comfortably
You leave from the visitors centre and they are stopping and picking up people at various spots of the park. At first you feel overwhelmed by the people, but little by little as you go inside the park people disappears ; in addition to that in one side of the river is the road and in the other there are trails where you can walk peacefully and safely. We were recommended that we should go first to the right end of the route and from there we should start walking and taking the bus when we were tired; we did more than 18 km , but the treck is very smooth, downhill and as you are thinking in the wonders you see , you forget the fatigue
The bus costs 90 Yuan each day, but somebody told us that in the low season price can be half and that that if you walk the first five kilometers , from there you can take buses free , without paying

No sabíamos cómo ir de Jiuzhai Gou a Huang Long y estábamos preocupados ya que había mucha gente y además la comunicación no era fácil, porque no encontramos gente que hablara inglés ( Ni en el Sheraton ).
Al final conocimos a una pareja de Hong Kong, que nos ayudó mucho y que eran tan agradables que nos permitieron compartir el taxi con ellos, para ir a Huang Long y acabar en el aeropuerto de SongPan por la tarde (Tardamos en ir 2, 5 horas de ida y nos costó el taxi 225 x 2 Yuan)

We didn´t know how to go to Huang long from Jiuzhai gou and we were worried as there were a lot of people and the communication it was not easy because we didn´t find English speakers ( Not even in the Sheraton ) .
At the end we met a Hong Kong couple , that helped us a lot and they were so nice that they allowed us to share the taxi with them , to go to Huang Long and at the end of the day to the SongPan airport ( It takes 2,5 hours to go and we paid for the taxi 225 x 2 Yuan )

i have to correct that there is no train between jiuzhaigou and chengdu; only by bus or air.

however, you have to get ready for the delay if you take the plane; there are 2 routes to jiuzhaigou from chengdu, the usually one is chengdu-dujiangyan-yingxiu-wenchuan-maoxian-songpan-chuanzhusi-jiuzhaigou, another is via mianyan city- so called east route; the former with a lot of sightseeing but the latter is much safer.

you may take the bus at xinnanmen station from chengdu to jiuzhaigou daily or 3 buses available for jiuzhaigou at chadianzi bus station in the west of chengdu.

from jiuhuang airport to national park, you may either take the shuttle bus or taxi. there's no schedule for the shuttle which means usually you have to wait for full seated before departure. for taxi, it may cost you rmb 300.