26 May - 香格里拉, located at an average altitude of 3200m is considered a high altitude city which puts you at risk of catching altitude sickness. General advice is to spend a few days at a lower-altitude city (like Lijiang at 2400 meters) before heading to Shangri-La to let your body acclimatize. Golden rule is to go slow in whatever you do, no strenuous activities and always equipped with an oxygen canister which will help to increase your blood oxygen content and relief some altitude sickness symptoms.
For today, our group plan is to visit 纳帕海 in the morning followed by 普达措国家公园 in the afternoon. As the rainy season has not arrived yet, the grassland in 纳帕海 is still not flooded. Basically we just see a normal grassland with horses for tourist riding. Going in the morning has its merits as we have the 大经幡 wholly for ourselves.
纳帕海 grassland un-flooded yet (no "sea") as rainy season is only due next month
纳帕海大经幡
After we are done with the photos, we moved on to 普达措国家公园. There are 3 sections which we can visit today, namely 悠幽步道, 属都湖 and 碧塔海. In order to travel from sections to sections, we can only take their designated sightseeing buses. For 悠幽步道, they will ceased stopping at this point after 3.30pm. To walk through the whole 悠幽步道, we took around 2 hours, though we can finished earlier if not for the photo taking sessions. For the 步道, nothing extraordinary except to enjoy the nature and the animals. Flowers might be in bloom later in the months, but now (end May) is not their season yet.
First stop: 悠幽步道
Black Tibetan pigs
Ancient trees that has lived 300 - 400 years
属都湖
Blossoming flowers @ 属都湖
As there is not much time left, we decided to skip 碧塔海 and headed back to our hotel to search for our dinner (王宝器麻椒鱼). Tasty for the first 60mins, but get quite sick of it after a while.
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