Huanglong is another epic national park in the Sichuan region, which we visited on a long day trip from Jiuzhaigou. This part of the region has a strong Tibetan influence. Their temples, yaks, yurts and prayer flags dot the countryside.
The national park is accessed by cable car, which takes you up to 3500m, and you walk back down to the entrance. Enough altitude to give you a light head and laboured breathing. There are even oxygen bars where you can buy canisters of oxygen to suck on.
The park is home to a large range of plants and animals, including apparently wild pandas. There are also Tibetan buddhist/taoist temples dating back to the Ming Dynasty.
The park also has a collection of thousands of cascading multi-coloured pools and waterfalls. It is quite a sight... possibly the most incredible place we have visited on our travels. Though our Western-ness was quite a spectacle here too, there weren't as many cameras in our faces and much smaller crowds.
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