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✅Must experience: Jiuzi Fortress Jiuzi Fortress is an unexploited ancient Qiang fortress, featuring beautiful lawns, forests, mountain peaks, and an abandoned Qiang fortress, filled with mystery and wild charm. Here you can hike, set up canopies and tents, but overnight stays and fires are not allowed, and it is important to take your trash with you. The best photography spot is located by proceeding to the left from the ancient ruins until you reach a place with a swing, where you can capture the full view of the ancient ruins. 🍽Dining recommendation: Local specialties include stone-grilled and copper pot dishes, and you can also try cloud-top barbecue at Tianmei's outside the fortress. - Transportation: It is recommended to drive there yourself, starting from Chengdu on the highway and then onto National Highway 317, with about 10KM of single-lane mountain cement road, which is quite steep and difficult for cars to pass, but there are passing places at intervals along the road. 🏨Hotel environment: There are homestays, camping bases, and restaurants on the mountain, where you can choose according to your needs. 🌟Highlights: When you set foot on this land, it's as if you've stepped into a corner forgotten by time. The ancient Qiang fortress silently tells the stories of the years, with the ruins of stone houses carrying a kind of aged beauty. Walking along the mountain paths, surrounded by lush forests, it feels like every step breathes in the purest essence of nature. Climbing to higher ground, overlooking the continuous mountains and vast grasslands, a sense of indescribable grandeur wells up in your heart. The local cuisine also has its own unique flavor, with the aroma of stone-grilled food and the warmth of the copper pot, both of which can immerse your taste buds in satisfaction. The cement mountain road on the self-drive journey, though challenging, offers scenery after each turn that makes you feel it's all worth it. And at night, staying in a homestay or camping base on the mountain, you just need to look up to see the dazzling starry sky, and at that moment, you will feel as if you are one with the universe.