Jiuzhaigou is a narrow strip of ... sound of the falls echoes through the valley. The valley is home to a great variety of plants and rare animals, such as the giant panda, lesser panda, golden ...

Stretching over 72,000 ha in the northern part of Sichuan Province, the jagged Jiuzhaigou valley reaches a height of more than 4,800 m, thus comprising a series of diverse forest ecosystems. Its ...

Stretching over 72,000 ha in the northern part of Sichuan Province, the jagged Jiuzhaigou valley reaches a height of more than 4,800 m, thus comprising a series of diverse forest ecosystems. Its ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jiuzhaigou means "valley of nine villages," because it once harbored nine, but other numbers are more significant now.