liewwkNature Photohunters : 2017 Oct – The Golden Sichuan , CHINA

Finally I am free to sit down for get more pictures done …

again 2017 Oct  we revisit the beautiful Sichuan for Golden Sichuan , for overall we were lucky to have various different weather, view etc …

Day 1 Chengdu –> Kanding

we arrive Chengdu immediate we travel to Kanding for nearer to next destination and also ease ourself with high altitude . (~3000 masl )

whole day raining, and we do believe at higher altitude locations should be snow and we expected to see snow view tomorrow .

 

Day 2 Kanding – ShanMuJu

康定 -上木居

along the road we had very good view as usual, but it is just a start . the snow almost 6-10 inch thick, the roadside view still look amazing

折多山

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Day 3 ShanMuju

Our tour main target , Mount Mount Gongga (Minya Konka) Sichuan highest mountain ~7556masl … at here we got few viewpoint see it really close

– this what we saw, when we first reach to the viewpoint 1 .

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update 2017 Dec 5

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before anyone can response the beautiful view, think everyone stand still for this view for ~5-10 minutes … it is good though as we shouldn’t move much at this altitude (~4500masl).

a small slope , but not easy to walk

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the view of the Mount Gongga sunrise … we just WOW WOW

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and the surrounding view

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we walk ~1.8km for the beautiful lake .

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it can be lovely view for the lake .. but need to be early. this is reflection for the Mount Gongga

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a special view with drone

 

after the lovely sunrise with snow view, very soon we go to view point 2 for sunset … here have more tourist due to much easier access

子梅垭口

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Day 4 TaGong

雅哈垭口

we continue our next destination but passing by this amazing view and spend sometime here as someone wish to challenge to hike up to highest point of view which look 70-80 degree for 500 meter up 😀

the beautiful Gongga Mountain range ..  we were at ~4500m asl

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after the beautiful view, we heading Tagong , the cloudy day do not stop us to go wait for sunset.

it show us a amazing view of the snow peak !!! red blood color

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than we hit into 2 days snow

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after 2 days struggle with snow .  beside the Mount Yala, there is a beautiful lovely river with mani stones

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Day 6 TaiZhangGou

台站沟

my favor spot for Sichuan .. very lovely and we are really close to the Mount Yala

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Day 7

Day 8 小金, 四姑娘山

– we spend quite bad weather here only one amazing sunset at a very old spot we went few years ago by horse and now we found actually we can drive up … !!!!! and the dusk full with colors

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to be continued …….

 

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*** 2020 March 26

I will make this a consolidation pictures collection of my Sichuan, CHINA trip

update 2020 March 26

Rays of Yala
Yala+Tagong Sunrise .. 雅拉+塔公 日出

 

 

 

Just another place .. never get bore .. remind me “we look at a people not on his education and outlook but how he/she behave”

 

 

 

 

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2013 Sichuan trip

Finally I make my first Autumn photography trip (after many years revisit autumn season but previously without Photography) .. and my destination is Sichuan. CHINA (四川 , 中国) .

we don;t have much group photo as we just too concentrate on landscape 😀

left--> right Xiao Zhou, Marc, Terence , Kalai, Albert, John, Xiao Yang, liewwk
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Xiao Zhou, Marc, Terence , Kalai, Albert, John, Xiao Yang, liewwk

 

update

10 days trips which include below locations

1. 海螺沟

– a National Park that 4 stars with highest Mountain within Si Chuan – Minya Konka (贡嘎山)

– need to pay ticket and bus ticket ~RMB160 and only up to 1,2,3 stops (which can stop and walk to get more spots but we are on rush so I will redo this part next trip

– 4th stop need to pay RMB90 for the cable car to reach to the top of the park and the Minya Konka will look closer to us

– slow walk as the altitude >3000m after 4th stop

– small store for food

travel among for day 1-2

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update 2013 Oct 22

中国, 贡嘎山 1. Lee CPL 4×4

2. 新都桥

– a beautiful place with river, houses, tree (turn yellow when autumn)

– a local view tower (mountain) allow us to shoot sunset with the village as foreground

– too many electric wire around, need more time to avoid the wire instead

update 2013 Nov 25

– view along the travel .. the view across the distance almost as beautiful as this ..

– we almost decide camp here for the view capture

1. Lee FIlter GND .9s

update 2013 Oct

新都桥, 中国

update 2013 Oct 22

… 新都桥, 中国 … 1. Lee FIlter GND .8s 2. Lee FIlter Pro Glass .9

3. 塔公

4。 康定-木格措

5。康定- 折多山 – 丹巴

update 2015 Sept 23

– 45min hike up to a high view point …. beautiful instead and we came here for 2 times 😀

… beautiful village …

update 2013 Nov 13

– very cold morning and the 四姑娘山 is so shy and were lucky it appear for ~1hour after the long wait …(on right)

1. Lee Filter GND .75s 2. Lee Filter CPL 4×4

 

update 2013 Nov 7

– on the way up 折多山 but snowing getting serious and we just stop at halfway and decided back to hotel … but all half way view just beautiful especially village, ice peak etc …

on way from 康定 toward 折多山 but snowing get serious .. and we decided to back to hotel instead risk our life to continue. and this is a view on way back … 1. Lee Filter GND .75s

 

6。日隆镇 (四姑娘山)

not really go details to each location but trying my best to capture what I see … it is very beautiful place for landscape photography (think whole Si Chuan) should be heaven for landscape photographers …

update 2013 Nov 26

– 2-3th stops @双桥沟 ..

– tourist spot and still worth a visit with beautiful view along .. if able to walk among few stop could able to capture more beautiful view

1. Singh-Ray CPL 105mm

 

update 2013 Nov 11

– walking up hill at ~3500-3800 meter from sea level is not easy and I managed to make it 1 hr and this is one extra shot I able to capture .. my friends missed this due to use horse 🙁

– an abandon house after the earthquake …. most of the houses here got distort but rebuild after the earthquake

1. SIngh-Ray RGND 2 stops 2. Lee Filter CPL 4×4

update 2013 Nov 7

– thanks our drivers Xiao Zhou & Xiao Yang .. they brought us around and also their own village 嘛呢寨..

– a friendly village ,  love their way of treat guest … and beautiful uphill view for sunset and village view

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