Let's go comments: From Hubei to Chongqing and then to western Sichuan, this is a trip to enjoy the beautiful scenery of western China's Sichuan-Tibet line, with Qiang Village and Tibetan Village with great ethnic customs, Tibetan Buddhist temples and colleges, colorful colorful lakes, glacial ice caves with extreme beauty, ancient town grottoes with deep history, natural beauty and cultural history are exhausted, and it is well deserved to enter the top four!
Route Maker:
Lao Li (Li Dawei)
If you are not crazy, you can't live if you don't go crazy, Wuhan old Li Tou iron, a single car Sichuan-Tibet line, and a living Buddha in the snowy Tiansi.
The 9th (2023) "Top 10 Popular Self-driving Routes in China"
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Description of the itinerary
1. Total mileage by car: 7600 km.
2. Total number of days of self-driving: 21 days
3. Route overview: Wuhan - Fengjie Xiaozhai Tiankeng (560 kilometers about 7:30) - Wanzhou Waterfall (220 kilometers about 2:30) - Guanghan Sanxingdui Ruins (510 kilometers about 6 hours) - Taoping Qiang Village (160 kilometers about 2 hours) - Bipenggou (60 kilometers about 50 minutes) - Miyaluo (50 kilometers about one hour) - Zhuokeji Tusi Guanzhai (74 kilometers 1:10) - Dagu Glacier (150 kilometers about 2:40) - colorful nails and feet - Sheep Velvet Hade Tibetan Village (10 km about 15 minutes) - Nizigou Cailin (2.5 km) - Lianbao Yeze (232 km 4:30) - Seda Buddhist College (355 km 4:20) - Gesar King City (170 km about 3 hours) -
Xinluhai 110 km 2 hours - Derge Printing Monastery (82 km about 1:40) - Qamdo Qiang Balin Monastery (325 km about 6 hours) - Tibet Sky City Zizhu Monastery (220 km about 5 hours) - Xianggela Glacier and Blue Ice Cave (290 km 9:30) - (Yaqing Monastery 950 km 19 hours) - Xinlongcuoka Lake (260 km 7 hours) - Moska Village (540 km 12:20) - Dangling Village (67 km 2:30) -
Middle Road Zangzhai (73 km 2:15) - Siguniang Mountain Shuangqiaogou (98 km 2 hours) - Kangding Love Song Mugecuo (255 km 4:50) - Mengding Mountain (160 km 2 hours) - Pengshui Chiyou Jiuli City (610 km 6:30) - Gongtan Ancient Town (60 km 1:30) - Lishui Wind and Rain Covered Bridge (130 km 2:30) - Laifeng Xian Buddha Temple Grottoes (131 km 2:30) - Xuan'en Lion Pass (61 km 1:10) - Wuhan (580 km 7 hours)
4. General road conditions: paved roads along the way, except for the X503 Dingbian County Road from Zizhu Temple to Bianba County, cars and SUVs can pass, but X503 Dingbian County Road lower chassis cars such as Passat are not recommended. In addition, this section of the road is a mountain road, and it is not recommended to pass during the rainy season to prevent natural disasters such as landslides and landslides.
D1 Wuhan - White Emperor City
Route mileage: The distance is about 532km, and the journey takes about 6.5 hours.
Attraction introduction: You can visit Li Bai's "White Emperor Caiyunjian" and Liu Beituo's lonely White Emperor City, the top of the Three Gorges (the highest point of the Three Gorges is 1388 meters above sea level), the Three Gorges Kuimen, etc.
Three Gorges Kuimen: Located in Qutang Gorge, Fengjie County, Chongqing City, it is an important pass out of Sichuan in ancient times, and it is a place where soldiers must fight.
Recommended accommodation: White Emperor City
D2 White Emperor City - Fengjie Xiaozhai - Wanzhou
Route mileage: Baidi City - Fengjie Xiaozhai Tiankeng - Wanzhou Waterfall is about 67km, and the journey is about 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Attraction introduction: Play the world's largest sinkhole, you can go down to the bottom of the pit. Visit the Wanzhou Waterfall, which is known as "Asia's first waterfall".
Xiaozhai sinkhole: Fengjie Xiaozhai sinkhole is the largest sinkhole in the world, formed after the collapse of the underground karst cave, and the name of the sinkhole in the international geological community comes from the Chinese pronunciation of this sinkhole. It has a diameter of 622 meters and a depth of 666.2 meters, with a path leading to the bottom of the pit.
Wanzhou Waterfall is located in Wanzhou District, Chongqing City, and is known as "Asia's No. 1 Waterfall".
Recommended accommodation: Wanzhou City
D3 Wanzhou Waterfall - Sanxingdui, Guanghan
Route mileage: Wanzhou Waterfall - Guanghan Sanxingdui Ruins. The distance is about 505km and the journey takes about 6 hours.
Attraction introduction: Visit the Sanxingdui ruins and unearthed cultural relics in general of the outer civilization.
Guanghan Sanxingdui: The masterpiece of the ancient Shu Kingdom like a "visitor from the sky" is breathtaking. Excavations are still being made, and amazing discoveries continue to be made.
Recommended accommodation: Guanghan City
D4 Guanghan - Taoping Qiangzhai - Bipenggou
Route mileage: Guanghan Sanxingdui - Taoping Qiang Village, the distance is about 160km, and the journey takes about 2 hours. Taoping Qiangzhai - Bipenggou 60 kilometers about 50 minutes.
Attraction Introduction:
Taoping Qiang Village is a famous scenic spot with a history of more than 2,000 years, famous for its unique watchtower architecture and Qiang culture, and is the most well-preserved in the world.
Located in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, Bipenggou is one of the top ten tourist attractions in Sichuan. The tourist attraction is located at an altitude of 3,700 meters.
Recommended accommodation: Accommodation in Bipenggou.
D5 Bipenggou - Miyaluo - Zhuokeji Tusi Guanzhai - Dagu Glacier
Route mileage: Bipenggou - Miyaluo (50 kilometers about one hour) - Zhuokeji Tusi Guanzhai (74 kilometers 1:10) - Dagu Glacier.
Attraction Introduction:
Miyaluo is the largest and most spectacular autumn foliage scenic spot in China, in late autumn, the mountains are full of red, the forests are dyed, and the car is like being in a colorful fairy tale world, which is beautiful.
Located in Heishui County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, Dagu Glacier is the lowest, largest and youngest glacier in the world, and it is also the closest glacier to the city inhabited by humans, so it is called "the nearest far". The tourist attraction is nearly 5,000 meters above sea level.
Recommended accommodation: Stay in Heishui County.
D6 Dagu Glacier - Cashmere Hade Tibetan Village - Lotus Treasure Yeze
Route mileage: Dagu Glacier - Colorful Jiazu - Sheep Velvet Hade Tibetan Village (10 kilometers about 15 minutes) - Nizigou Cailin (2.5 kilometers) - Lianbaoye Ze (232 kilometers 4:30)
Attraction Introduction:
Colorful nail feet, sheep velvet Hade Tibetan village is one of the most beautiful Tibetan villages in China, and the milk ditch color forest is suitable for late autumn play.
Lotus Baoye means stone city in Chinese, the head of the gods in Amdo Tibetan area, is the world and art temple of majestic strange peaks and stones, known as "the source of Shu Mountain, Kunlun Heavenly Ladder", with strange peaks and stones, glacial relics, snow-capped mountains and lakes landscape. The altitude is more than 4,000 meters.
Recommended accommodation: Stay in Aba County.
D7 Lotus Leaf Tse - Serta Buddhist College
Route mileage: Lotus Pak Tse – Seta Buddhist College (355 km, about 7 hours)
Attraction Introduction:
Along the way, there are all winding mountain roads, which makes people feel that "today I have gone through all the detours, and my life is a smooth road from now on".
Serdar Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, located in Serda County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, means "golden horse" in Tibetan, is one of the world's largest Tibetan Buddhist colleges, and is a sacred place for the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism (commonly known as the Red Sect because the lamas wear red monks' robes). Thousands of cabins are densely packed like ant nests on the hillside, and the crimson cabins are a spectacular array of trees.
Accommodation recommendation: Sueda County,
Altitude: 4000 meters.
D8 Sedar-Gesar Castle
Route mileage: Seta Buddhist College - King Gesar City (170 km, about 3 hours).
Introduction: Visit one of the world's largest Tibetan Buddhist institutes, Serdar Wuming Larung Gar Buddhist College. Today, you will enter the Sichuan-Tibet line of National Highway 317 and visit King Gesar City and stay in King City.
Recommended accommodation: Wangcheng
D9 Gesar Wangcheng - Xinluhai - Derge Printing Institute
Route mileage: Gesar Wangcheng - Xinluhai 110 kilometers 2 hours - Derge Printing Institute (82 kilometers about 1:40)
Attraction Introduction:
Visit the new Luhai and the Derge Printing Institute with the "Encyclopedia of Tibetan Culture".
Derge Printing Institute is located in the temple of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism in Derge County, West Sichuan (because the walls of the temple are painted with red, white and blue stripes symbolizing Manjushri, Guanyin and Vajrapani "Three Lords" Bodhisattva, so it is also commonly known as the Flower Sect), which was founded in 1762 and still retains the oldest hand-made sutra skills, which is included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage, and is one of the three major cultural centers in Tibetan areas in the mainland. In order to protect the precious wooden carvings and scriptures in the courtyard, there is no use of candles or electricity.
Recommended accommodation: Derge County
D10 Derge-Chamdo Qiang Bahrain Temple
Route mileage: The distance is about 325km, and the journey takes about 6 hours.
Introduction: Enter Tibet through the Jinsha River, the Sichuan-Tibet boundary river, and visit the Qiangbalin Monastery, the largest temple in the Qamdo area.
Recommended accommodation: Suchang City.
D11 Changdu - Kunju Temple
Route mileage: Changdu - Zizhu Temple (220 km, about 5 hours)
Attraction introduction: Visit the Sky City Buddha Country Zizhu Temple
Zizhu Monastery is located in the famous sacred mountain of Dingqing County, Qamdo Prefecture, Tibet - Zizhu Mountain, was founded 3,000 years ago, about 4,800 meters above sea level, is one of the highest monasteries in Tibet, known as the city in the sky. It is the oldest and most important temple of Yongzhong Bon, one of the five major sects of Tibetan Buddhism, and it is also the focus of this trip.
Accommodation recommendation: stay in Dingqing County.
Altitude: 4800 meters.
D12 Dingqing County-Bianba County
Route mileage: The distance is about 192km, and the journey takes about 7 hours.
Attraction introduction: Cross the Nu River along the way
Accommodation recommendation: Subianba County
D13 Bianba - Xianggela Glacier, Blue Ice Cave
Route mileage: The distance is about 60km, and the journey takes about 1 hour.
Attraction introduction: Visit the Xianggela Snow Mountain Glacier in the secret land of eastern Tibet and the largest in Tibet discovered last year - Gongga Blue Ice Cave, passing through the Sanse Lake. Today, we began to enter the Sichuan-Tibet Middle Line of National Highway 349, which is an extremely niche route into Tibet, and few people have walked it so far.
Located at the end of the glacier tongue next to Xianggela Snow Mountain in Bianba County, Tibet (the farthest point of this trip), the Gonggar Blue Ice Cave was discovered by a local village chief in 2023 while patrolling the mountain. There is an underground river in the arc arch type in the cave, and the four walls are ice crystals, like crystal clear and shining sapphires. The ice at the top of the cave is in the shape of "fish scales", and the entire interior of the ice cave is blue, and walking in it is like walking into the underwater world, and under the sunlight at the entrance of the cave, it is as beautiful as a crystal palace. The ice cave is also an important destination on this trip. Azure and other smoke and rain, I'm waiting for you in the blue ice cave, I've been here, are you coming?
Xianggela Snow Mountain Glacier is located in Bianba County, Tibet, because of the inconvenient transportation and inaccessible, it cannot be reached by self-driving, and it is an unknown niche snow mountain glacier. The snow-capped mountains are majestic, the glaciers are towering and majestic, and the magnificent snow-capped mountains are surrounded by clouds and mist, which is majestic and the scenery is charming. The beautiful scenery of snow-capped mountains and glaciers in winter is a good season for most photography enthusiasts.
D14, 15 Blue Ice Cave - Yaqing Temple
Route mileage: The distance is about 950km, and the journey takes about 17 hours.
Attraction introduction: Visit the female Buddha country Yaqing Temple.
Yaqing Temple is located in Baiyu County, Sichuan Province, more than 3,600 meters above sea level, also known as Juemu (pointing out the nun of the family) Island, you can see the whole picture of "Juemu Island" from the mountain, Qushui River encloses a small island. The island is the largest nun area in the world, with more than 20,000 women practicing here, and they are not allowed to leave the island after dark, and it is called the closest daughter of the Buddha. Men are not allowed at any time.
Accommodation recommendation: Stay in Baiyu County
D16 Yaqing Temple - Xinlong
Route mileage: Yaqing Temple - Xinlongcuoka Lake, the distance is about 270km, and the journey takes about 7 hours.
Attraction introduction: Play the fairy tale world hidden in western Sichuan - known as the "Nine Heavens Yao Pond" Cuoka Lake, one of the most beautiful landscapes in China, 4,000 meters above sea level, due to the high mountain road danger, narrow detours, the wrong car is extremely difficult, novice drivers are not recommended.
Recommended accommodation: Suocka Lake.
D17 Cuoka Lake-Middle Road Tibetan Village
Route mileage: Cuoka Lake - Tibetan Village on the middle road. The distance is about 400km and the journey takes about 8.5 hours.
Introduction: The Middle Road Tibetan Village is located in Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, "Middle Road" is Tibetan, which means "the place where people and gods yearn for". It has the reputation of "the most beautiful ancient Tibetan village".
Accommodation recommendation: Residential houses in the village
D18 Middle Road Tibetan Village - Siguniang Mountain - Kangding
Route mileage: Middle Road Tibetan Village - Siguniang Mountain Shuangqiaogou (98 km 2 hours) - Siguniang Mountain - Kangding Love Song Mugecuo (255 km 4:50)
Attraction Introduction:
Visit Siguniang Mountain, known as the queen of Shushan, which means great god mountain in Chinese.
Mugecuo means sea of savages in Chinese, is the birthplace of Kangding love songs, and is one of the important check-in places on the Sichuan-Tibet line of National Highway 318.
Recommended accommodation: stay in Kangding City.
Altitude: 4000 meters.
D19 Kangding-Mengdingshan-Pengshui, Chiyou, Jiulicheng
Route mileage: Kangding City - Mengding Mountain (147 km 2 hours) - Mengding Mountain - Pengshui Chiyou Jiuli City (610 km 6:30)
Attraction Introduction:
Visit the birthplace of tea in China and even in the world.
But anyone who drinks tea knows that there is a saying in the tea world that "the water in the Yangtze River and the tea on the top of Mengding Mountain" is the best, which means that the tea on Mengding Mountain is the best. Mengding Mountain, located in Ya'an City, Sichuan, is the birthplace of tea in the world, which means that tea from all over the world originates here. This is the earliest place in Chinese history where there are written records of artificial tea planting, as early as the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the history of artificial tea cultivation began.
Visit the Jiuli City of Chiyou, the ancestor of the Miao people.
Recommended accommodation: Stay in Jiuli City.
D20 Jiuli City - Gongtan Ancient Town - Lai Fengxian Buddha Temple Grottoes
Route mileage: Jiuli City - Gongtan Ancient Town (60 km 1:30) - Lishui Wind and Rain Covered Bridge (130 km 2:30) - Laifeng Xian Buddha Temple Grottoes (131 km 2:30)
Attraction introduction: The whole bridge is a pure wooden structure, like a giant dragon across the world's first wind and rain covered bridge on the Apeng River - Lishui Wind and Rain Covered Bridge.
Accommodation recommendation: Come to Feng County
D21 Lishui Ancient Town - Xuan'en Lion Pass - Wuhan
Route mileage: 61km, about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Description: Drive to the water pontoon bridge that can be used by cars.
Chongqing Lishui Town Wind and Rain Corridor Bridge spans the Apeng River, 658 meters long, 5 meters wide, divided into three parts of the bridge, the tower and the pavilion, the bridge body is a pure wooden structure, the building materials are interspersed with each other with tenon and tenon holes, the straight set is obliquely pierced, the structure is firm and precise, the bridge is built with a tower pavilion, the height is undulating, the staggered falls, like a dragon lying in the wilderness. It was awarded the "World's First Wind and Rain Covered Bridge" by the China Covered Bridge Association.
The grottoes of Enshi Xianfo Temple in Hubei Province are carved on the red mountain cliff on the shore of the Youshui River, which is not only the only remaining cliff statue of the Tang Dynasty in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the two lakes area, but also the largest cliff statue in existence, among which the large seated Maitreya Buddha statue with a height of 6 meters is second to none in the two lakes area, and it is also one of the earlier and larger examples in China.