Songpan
An early bitterly cold start for the 3 hour bus for Songpan. A picture postcard trip, heavy snow during the night had left the trees white with beautiful white snow capped mountains in the background. Could have been Christmas with the conifers all white – or at least how it appears on the cards, sadly the driver refused to bow to popular demand and stop to make snowmen – or at least photos. But then he was trying to drive and whereas the road is good, conditions weren’t, saw one bus ditched despite having snowchains on.
Songpan a nice place dating back to some dynasty a long time ago and surrounded by high walls which will probably be finished next month. The good thing with old historical places is that they get nicely rebuilt and make pleasant towns to wander around. The place is also popular for horse treking but given the conditions I will be sticking to my nice room with electric blanket.
Tomorrow will do a bit of hill walking and then hopefully head to Zoige and then Lamusi but see what happens regarding the weather as worse than I was anticipating.
Tags: China, Songpan, Travel
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