Hello David,
Thank you for all your help. We really enjoyed this trip!
Overall, we found the hotels high quality and very comfortable. Our drivers were attentive and caring, and we could communicate with them easily using a translation app. Not having a guide didn’t bother us.
We really enjoyed Wumu and Baoshan, and we thank you for suggesting them. Among our favourites, we also loved Meili and Tiger Leaping Gorge (a very welcoming host and guide).
Here are a few comments based on our experience:
We were a little disappointed on 17 May, when we couldn’t go to Laojun Mountain park in the end. The alternative, the Thousand Lions park, was very disappointing: quite expensive for little of interest.
A comment about Shibaoshan: the park has two stops, an intermediate one and one at the far end, where you can see the rock carvings. Nobody told us that we needed to stop at the intermediate stop. The park shuttle doesn’t stop there on the way up, only on the way back, and you have to ask. We didn’t take the shuttle back because we did the hike down the steps. At the end of the hike, we realised we hadn’t visited the intermediate section. Our driver kindly dropped us back at the park entrance so we could do it, but we lost quite a lot of time. We suggest warning travellers about this in advance.
These are just comments and didn’t spoil the quality of the trip.
Thank you also for the kind gestures on my birthday!
It was a beautiful trip, and we’re coming home with wonderful memories!
Kind regards,
Estelle and Edwin