Zhaganagazong Boutique Guesthouse

Fantastic stay in Zhagana’s Da Ri village: Well located ,comfortable, clean facilities about 3/4 of the way up the mountain right off of the main road. Easy access and Best views imaginable without being in the more crowded and overbuilt villages. For hiking, just drive down the main road to the next village and park in the lot on the left. From there you have access to the river gorge hike and the platform down into the valley. You can also hike from the guesthouse village into the fields and to an overlook or down to the river. Very kind and helpful hosts. The en-suite rooms are basic but well-built and clean, w hot water heaters for the shower and heating pads for the mattresses although we didn’t really use the heating pads as the rooms are well insulated even w the summer evening temperatures dropping significantly. The host family serves meals on request. They really went above and beyond for us, not just the usual stuff but even helped us find someone to fix our flat tire and then the young laoban replaced the tire himself. Very kind of him! Try to avoid arriving on a weekend. We left Sunday morning and incoming traffic was backed up for hours! We arrived on Friday afternoon and there was no traffic.

Accepts foreigners. Inside the park so you pay the 80cny to enter then drive up (around 25 mins) but don't have to pay again as you are staying in the park. If you are not driving there is a shuttle to the visitors centre but not sure how you can continue on to the hotel from there - it is a further 15 min drive uphill. Lots of food options inside the park - a couple around the hotel area. Room basic but clean. Shared facilities basic, but clean - squat toilet. Owner friendly. Doesn't speak English but can use translation. They have a car park at hotel. View is lovely albeit a bit more built up than I imagined it would be. Bring a jacket because it's cold even in the middle of summer. Misty in the morning. My favourite trek was: drive back down towards the entrance about 5 min until you see the first car park on the left. Park car then continue to walk down and there is a wooden walkway. Follow it on the left for 500 metres then it turns into an actual trekking path through forest and by the stream with small waterfalls. Follow the path on the right to climb stairs to the top of the peak. Beautiful 🥰

This hotel is in a wonderful location with one of the best views in Zhagana. It is important to know there are 4 villages in Zhagana and this is the third one up, making it more difficult to get to (and find) as it is quite a way uphill. Noone spoke English but the owners did their best to help. Good food can be ordered in this and other hotels around, but there is no English signage. It takes quite a while to get the food if there is a crowd staying there. A great place to visit now but there is already massive development going on.

Good but amenities need to update