Dujiangyan Dragon Pool Park Hike: Encounter with Monkey Troops - Including a Sentinel, the Monkey King, and a 'Maid'

Dragon Pool National Forest Park, Hiking and Climbing, Episode 3

Earlier, I stepped over the river on the rocks. Across the river is a huge stone staircase to prevent landslides. I initially wanted to go up the stairs, but when I got closer, I realized it was completely impossible – the stairs were too high and slippery. I carefully observed my surroundings and found a small path walked by other hikers beside me, so I decided to go up the path. Of course, there was also a flat road to go up, but it would take a lot of time to turn a large curve. Going up the small path was my style.

Huge Baishan Stone Steps

There is a small path in the forest on the right side of the mountain

Took this photo of the valley before going up the path

I continued to walk along the road for a while, and suddenly I heard a sound in the distance. Looking around, I saw a communication tower with animals climbing on it. I magnified it with my phone's zoom function to see what kind of animal it was – it was a monkey. On the sign below, it said that troops of langurs were roaming here. Could this be it? I was so excited that I suddenly found a monkey sitting on a stone. The monkey's color is very similar to the stone, and I almost didn't notice it. I looked at the monkey, happily saying 'hello' to it, and it didn't pay attention to me, probably because I wasn't holding food. I continued to walk on, and then it glanced at me disdainfully.

That monkey, haha

Walked forward for a while, and I found a second monkey sitting on the roadside guardrail. I also found a third monkey sitting on the roadside guardrail. These three monkeys may be the sentries of the whole monkey family. This is my feeling after walking through the whole monkey family.

Monkey Sentries 2 and 3

Continue to walk, a group of monkeys are sitting on the road, one is hanging a wire rope on the pole, and is using one hand to show off his muscles. I judged this to be the guard of the monkey family. The rope belongs to the boss.

Continue to walk, a group of monkeys are eating on the road, there are many corn on the ground, in the distance, I saw a house, and several people, should be the monkey's feeding staff are feeding on the road just now. Those monkeys eating began to shout at me, telling me not to approach, I could only walk past it at a distance to avoid threatening them, otherwise so many monkeys would come and attack me. I definitely couldn't beat them.

Monkey Guards and Monkeys Eating

After turning the corner of the road, there are many monkeys on a small galvanized steel house on the right side, like just born, they are basking in the sun. There are also a few monkeys basking in the grass on the left, looking at me, they came over and looked at me.

I continued to walk, and then looked back at the monkey family. Suddenly, I found two monkeys lying on a tall stone, one was sleeping, and the other was combing its hair carelessly. It seems that this position is the monkey king, this scene didn't notice just now.

Look at the monkey on the stone

This posture is undoubtedly the monkey king

I continued to walk along the road, and I found a puddle of blood on the ground. I think it's probably left by monkeys fighting.

This section is a place where the monkey family roams

Here it is still quite dangerous, take a photo to commemorate

Dragon Pool Park Hiking, Episode 3, continued updates later. This episode's video is named 'Dujiangyan Dragon Pool Forest Park Hiking, Encounter with the Monkey Family, the Monkey King even has a little maid', you can click 'Learn More' at the end of the text or go to my page video column to watch.'