In the morning, your private tour guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel in Chengdu. You will start the ice and snow trip soon! Driving out of downtown Chengdu, you will feel you are getting into another world, filled with green mountains and blue sky instead of tall buildings in the city. At around noon time, arrive in Moxi Town.

Have lunch and a short rest in a local restaurant.  After lunch, you will be transferred to visit Red Stone Park, which is renowned for the incredible red stones inside. Here, each piece of rock is covered with a beautiful red coat by Trentepohlia jolithus and piled up in the valley at two sides of river, just like jumping and flowing notes. Under the reflection of Snow Mountains, it is grand to be “the World’s Red Stone Park”. Besides the world’s unique red rocks valley, there are primitive and mysterious Ancient Tea House Rod, winding and zigzagging Wilson Patch, and towering and holy Yajiageng Snow Mountain peaks in the scenic spot. 

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Getting out of Yanzi Valley attraction in the late afternoon, and then continue driving back to Moxi Town.  ​After dinner in a local restaurant, check into hotel. In the evening you are free to stroll in Moxi Ancient Town, with the old residence of Chairman Mao and a Christianity church.

Chengdu - 170 km - Ya'an City - 120 km - Moxi Town

In the morning, transfer to Hailuogou National Park's gate. Exchange to the sightseeing bus to the Grass Lake, enjoy the snow mountain, primeval forest and mist of the scenic spot along the way. Later you will enter the Glacier Rain Forest Footpath and reach Dongga Temple through the primeval forest. Take the sightseeing bus to Ganheba, take the cable car up to view the holy Gongga Snow Mountain and the Big Glacier. 

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The process from snowflake, granular neve, granular ice to block ice is called "ice formation" in glaciology. In this process snowflake turns to glacial ice after a series of recrystallization metamorphism. It is the difference between glacial ice and water ice. This process is very slow and usually needs several decades, even several centuries. The older the glacier ice, the clearer the ice mass is. If you watch close, you can easily distinguish white ice and blue glacier ice with compressed air bubble in Hailuogou.

In the afternoon, walk in the Primeval Forest to feel the elusive life extending sensation. You can choose to get close to the glacier at the glacier wall path, or enjoy hot spring in the attraction.

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In the late afternoon take sightseeing bus to attraction exit, and then be transferred to local restaurant to have dinner.  Return to hotel for a good rest.

Hailuogou Valley National Park

In the morning, bid farewell to Hailuogou! Drive back along the way to Ya'an first.

En route, visit Luding Chain Bridge, which is 103.67 meters long and 3 meters wide composed of 13 chains. In the long history of Luding Bridge, it is not only a traffic throat on the tea horse road from West Sichuan to Tibet, but also the frontier for ethnic harmony and national unity. The victory of Luding Bridge battle during the Long March of Chinese Red Army was appreciated "thirteen chains load a glorious page in the annals of the Chinese revolution". 

Have lunch  in a local restaurant.

Later go through the Ya'an - Chengdu Expressway, drive another 2 hours from Ya'an to Chengdu. Arrive in Chengdu in the afternoon. Transfer to hotel/train station/airport according to your travel plan.

Moxi Town - 100 km - Ya'an City -170 km - Chengdu

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