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The road to Jiuzhaigou



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Blog: Day 14 – Mountain Drive to Jiuzhaigou Valley
Date: April 13th 2012

Today was a driving day so we started off with a hearty breakfast of hand-pulled noodles with black bean sauce. We had to cover 400km of mountain roads in order to get to the Jiuzhaigou Valley. It was for refreshing to not have had to climb mountains on foot since this time we drove up with the open top down, to the border between Sichuan and Tibet and a maximum height of 3,100m before heading dow ... read more


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