Why ride to Huanglong River—D9: Cycling to Mounigou Scenic Area

▲Cycling starts from Songpan, climbs for more than ten kilometers, passes through the 1,600-meter Muni Valley Tunnel to Muni Township, goes to Zhaga Waterfall on the left, and Erdaohai Scenic Area on the right. Usually at such a three-way intersection, you have to throw away your shoes to decide where to go. While hesitating, I found that there were no traffic lights in front of me and vehicles were rushing around. It was safest to turn right, so I chose to go to Erdao Sea Scenic Area first.

▲It’s an 8-kilometer uphill climb to the entrance of the scenic spot. Bicycles are not allowed in. There are people watching at the entrance. The ticket price is 70 for the scenic spot alone and 100 for the package. The Erdao Sea Scenic Area is 5.5 kilometers deep, with newly laid wooden steps throughout.

▲All pictures in this article were taken by early Huawei mobile phones without any processing or modification. Is it Huawei’s strength or is the scenery too beautiful?

▲How is this color worse than Jiuzhaigou?

▲The crystal clear lake water

▲The scenery of Muni Valley is mainly characterized by virgin forests, mountain lakes, hot springs, giant calcified waterfalls, circular waterfalls, and calcified colorful pools.

▲ Erdaohai Scenic Area is famous for its alpine lakes (commonly known as Haizi), which are composed of a series of small lakes. Strange flowers and plants grow in the lakes.

▲The most peculiar sulfur-containing hot spring under the ancient pine trees is where fairies bathe. After bathing, it can strengthen the body.

▲The bottom of the sulfur-containing hot spring water is not dead leaves or fallen leaves, but vibrant green leafy vegetation.

▲On a rare sunny day, there is no cloud in the sky, allowing Fairy Lake to bloom with attractive colors.

▲In the sea of ​​green forests, beautiful lakes such as Swan Lake, Baihua Lake, and Rhinoceros Lake are dotted like gems, making it quiet and charming.

▲The ripples in the lake trembled, and my heart trembled as well, as if a fairy bathing appeared in front of me.

▲The most romantic bathhouse in the fairyland may only exist in dreams...

▲It’s hard to tell which is water, which is sky, which is living things...

▲The most gratifying thing is that there are very few tourists. Leng Buding will be suddenly startled when someone walks by. This is in sharp contrast to the bustling Jiuzhaigou.

▲The sparkling waves made my heart flutter. At the southern end of this ditch, there is a medical mineral spring lake with a water temperature of 21°C. Zhuzhu Lake is said to have been built for the nine-day fairies when the real Huanglong lived in Erdaohai before crossing the deer to Huanglong. A place for healing and beauty.

▲I walked around the lake three times and wanted to find a place to go down. Not to mention curing diseases and beautifying my skin, if I met a fairy, I would...that...

▲There are thousands of plateau barrier lakes and caves, hot springs, and meadow landscapes of various sizes and shapes distributed in the Erdaohai primeval forest. Erdaohai, the largest lake among them, is named after it.

▲I have been looking at reflections in water for half my life, but today I realized that I have only seen them in vain.

▲My early Huawei mobile phone can take pictures like this. If it is a SLR...

▲It takes two hours to go back and forth from Erdaohai. It is extremely beautiful and has the essence of Jiuzhaigou. Return and ride to Zhaga Waterfall Scenic Area.

▲The ditch in the Zhaga Waterfall Scenic Area is 5 kilometers long. There is a flat mountain road from the entrance to the camp area. There is a slope on the left side of the mountain road and a deep ditch on the right side. Towering ancient trees grow everywhere.

▲After riding for about half an hour, we passed through a mountain road and arrived at the starting point of the waterfall scenic spot at the bottom of the valley.

▲Zhaga Waterfall is a multi-layered waterfall with many layers. The waterfall is 104 meters high and 35 meters wide, making it the tallest calcified waterfall in China. The lake water falls from the huge calcified ladder sill at a speed of 23 meters per second, with a majestic momentum and a roar of ten miles.

▲The total length from the bottom of the valley to the top of the waterfall is about 2,300 meters. The waterfall pours down from the top, forming many flying flows. A zigzag plank road is built on the right side of the slope to facilitate tourists' viewing.

▲On the wooden stairs, I came across a cute little squirrel. I squatted in front of it and took a lot of photos. It jumped up and down all by itself and didn't treat me as a human being!

▲Zhaga Waterfall is located at an altitude of 3270 meters, with a height of 93.2 meters and a width of 35 meters. The upper reaches are lakes, and the lower reaches are a series of stepped riverbeds. Hundreds of layers of calcified ring-shaped waterfalls are connected with jade beads, falling down through three calcified steps, and impacting into huge calcified surfaces to form huge white flowers. The sound of the waterfall is like thunder, with both sound and shape. On the calcified wall of the second step of the waterfall, there is a "Water Curtain Cave", with water hanging from the mouth of the cave, and the inside of the cave is full of atmosphere.

▲Just this deafening roar already made my heart surge and my legs became numb.

▲Reluctant to leave, looking back three times every step, no words can express my mood at this moment. What is the fairyland on earth? Mounigou, I have no regrets in this life.