Plan your visit to the Jiuzhaigou Park.

By Bus
Jiuzhaigou Park provides shuttle service for its visitors to move around the Park. Visitors may use the shuttles provided to visit all the scenic areas in the Park. If you can only spend 1 day in the park and you don’t enjoy hiking, you may take this approach to see the Park. You, however, would miss lots of great things in the Park.

By Hiking
The entire Jiuzhaigou Park is indeed an amazing park, not just the designated pointed defined by the Park officials. Though busing allows you to tour the Park quickly, you will miss a lot by just doing that. If you are in good physical condition, you may consider to tour around the Park by walking. There are over 70 km of great hiking trails in the Park. Experienced hikers may enjoy this approach to see the Park. The only problem is you probably need 2-3 days to see the entire park by hiking.

The Best Approach:
Follow the following steps; you may cover all the great things in the Park in one day.

1.Take the shuttle Bus to see Primeval Forest, Arrow Bamboo Lake, Arrow Bamboo Falls and Panda Lake.
2.Start hiking down from Panda Lake to see Five Flowers Lake, Peacock River, Golden Bell Lake, Pearl Shoal, Pearl Shoal Fall, Mirror Lake and Nuorilang Fall.
3.Take the shuttle to see Long Lake, Five Colours Lake and Rhinoceros Lake.
4.Hike down from Rhinoceros Lake to see Tiger Lake, Shu Zheng Fall, Shu Zheng Lakes, Lying Dragon Lake, Sparkling Lake, Reed Lake and Bonsai Shoals.
5.Take the bus back to Park entrance.