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Ruoergai Flower Lake in Sichuan|||Take your camera and go take pictures on the grassland

|||Take your camera and go take pictures on the grassland. June to August is the most beautiful season in Ruoergai, with flowers blooming all along the way. 🚗It takes about 7 hours to drive from Chengdu to Ruoergai Flower Lake. It's recommended to take the National Highway 213 there and return via National Highway 248, making a perfect loop. This way, you can enjoy more of the grassland scenery. 🏔Main attractions: On the way there: Moon Bay→Ruoergai Grassland→The First Bend of the Yellow River at Tangke→Elephant Trunk Hill Viewing Platform→Flower Lake On the way back: E'mutang, with many unnamed photo spots along the way. If you want to camp⛺️, you can do so on the grasslands on both sides of the road, but be careful to see if it's a private pasture. If there's a fence, do not enter to avoid disputes. 🏠Accommodation: There are hotels all along the way, so book in advance before you leave. You can also stay in a Mongolian yurt on the grassland, some even offer free horseback riding🐴. ⏰Plan 4 days for the trip, with the most beautiful season being from late June to mid-July. 🌤Climate: Semi-humid plateau monsoon climate, be aware of the large temperature difference between day and night, bring extra clothes🧥. Sunscreen, moisturizer, raincoat, and windbreaker are must-haves. 🗻Altitude is around 3500 meters, bring raincoats and cold-weather clothing. It's recommended not to take a bath on the first night of arrival to prevent colds and mild altitude sickness, and you can use oxygen tablets to combat altitude sickness. 💃🕺Activities: Every year during the blooming season, there are music festivals and horse racing🐎 competitions on the grassland. You can follow the specific times and information online. The Ruoergai Yellow River Grassland Culture and Tourism Festival and the Midsummer Yadan Festival are held in Ruoergai. 🗼Attraction Introduction: The grassland with lush water and grass is the favorite place of yaks. In Tibetan, the place where yaks like to stay is called 'Ruoergai', which is transliterated into Chinese characters as Ruoergai. Ruoergai Grassland is the most important water conservation and ecological function area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and it is the world's largest 'plateau solid water reservoir'—the Ruoergai Peat Marsh Wetland, which is also a habitat for many rare bird species. Because it contributes more than 30% to the water source of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, it is known as the 'Chinese Water Tower'. In August of the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), after ten months of arduous trekking, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army arrived at the Ruoergai Grassland. The weather on the grassland changes rapidly, and the ground is full of marshes, where many Red Army soldiers sacrificed their lives in the vast grassland. Crossing the grassland is an important chapter in the history of the Long March and also the most arduous journey of the Red Army's Long March.
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Posted: May 9, 2024
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