SCENES & SIGHT

Jiuzhaigou-Huanglong

Situated more than 400 km south of Chengdu , Jiuzhaigou (Gully of Nine Villages) is a gully in Nanping County in Ngawa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture which derived its name from the 9 Tibetan villages in the gully. Its 80-km-long ravine covers an area of 60,000 hectares and is strewn with lakes, waterfalls, snowy mountains and forests teeming with such precious animals as giant and lesser pandas and golden-haired monkeys. For its fairyland and dreamlike fascinations it is a UNESCO world natural heritage site and part of the UN Man and Biosphere program. Huanglongsi in Songpan County of Ngawa and adjacent to Jiuzhaigou is famed for its peculiar karst landscape and multihued ponds that are set off picturesquely by snow mountains, vertical ravines, and vast forests. The scenery is evocative of the Jasper Lake of the Ween Mother of the West. Jiuzhaigou-Huanglong have jointly entered the UNESCO list of world natural heritage sites.