Chengdu Travel - A view into the forest. This is primary growth - and a major conservation point, with regard to this habitat type, is that destructive domestic animals, such as goats and cattle, are not found within the park - their grazing can destroy so much plant growth and regeneration. The vegitation is very thick with large areas of bamboo. It's very difficult to travel directly through this kind of forest, so a lot of viewing is done from the tracks that wind up the valleys.
Sometimes you'll get to hear blood curdling screeches and yells - often from one side of a valley to another - don't be too alarmed its Short-tailed Macaques calling to each other as the troupe spreads in its search for food. In some Chinese parks you get feral monkeys that will come to tourists for food - however at Laba He the monkeys are very wild - but they have found out that raiding rubbish bins can bribg something tasty. Meggie took the picture of this Monkey about 10 minutes before we found the Red Panda.
The dominant male - and he's got an eye on us. He's warning the troupe that humans are present - telling them to keep their distance.
This is viewing platform for looking at Deer and Takin - but its lunch time, not too many animals about now - so we use it as a convenient place for making sandwiches
From the platform we can view country that is around 3000m high - here the forest is dotted with natural alpine pasture - great habitat for grazing animals. During August, this kind of country carries a thick matt of colorful grassland flowers - quite a sight.
A view higher up. The mountains here peak at just over 4,000m - and that's the summer altitude for Giant Panda. The mountain range goes on uninterrupted all the way out to the Wolong area - here we are on the edge of one of the world's richest Panda habitats.
But following the laws of gravity - we who go up must eventually come down - we make out descent by a plank way that takes us through more great habitat - and gives Laba He vistors the chance to enjoy the great scenery.
Chengdu Travel - A view into the forest. This is primary growth - and a major conservation point, with regard to this habitat type, is that destructive domestic animals, such as goats and cattle, are not found within the park - their grazing can destroy so much plant growth and regeneration. The vegitation is very thick with large areas of bamboo. It's very difficult to travel directly through this kind of forest, so a lot of viewing is done from the tracks that wind up the valleys.
Sometimes you'll get to hear blood curdling screeches and yells - often from one side of a valley to another - don't be too alarmed its Short-tailed Macaques calling to each other as the troupe spreads in its search for food. In some Chinese parks you get feral monkeys that will come to tourists for food - however at Laba He the monkeys are very wild - but they have found out that raiding rubbish bins can bribg something tasty. Meggie took the picture of this Monkey about 10 minutes before we found the Red Panda.
The dominant male - and he's got an eye on us. He's warning the troupe that humans are present - telling them to keep their distance.
This is viewing platform for looking at Deer and Takin - but its lunch time, not too many animals about now - so we use it as a convenient place for making sandwiches
From the platform we can view country that is around 3000m high - here the forest is dotted with natural alpine pasture - great habitat for grazing animals. During August, this kind of country carries a thick matt of colorful grassland flowers - quite a sight.
A view higher up. The mountains here peak at just over 4,000m - and that's the summer altitude for Giant Panda. The mountain range goes on uninterrupted all the way out to the Wolong area - here we are on the edge of one of the world's richest Panda habitats.
But following the laws of gravity - we who go up must eventually come down - we make out descent by a plank way that takes us through more great habitat - and gives Laba He vistors the chance to enjoy the great scenery.
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