Jiuzhaigou is a narrow strip of lowland, four hundred kilometers long, in the Minshan Mountain Range in Nanping County, northeast Sichuan. It got its name because there are nine Tibetan villages ...

Jiuzhaigou means "valley of nine villages," because it once ... and lung-stinging air lower down to see pristine, glistening water and rainbow-feathered birds darting in sweet mountain breezes ...