Giving your dog the best life makes you live yours
Liyang in Jiangsu was incredibly dog friendly! Everywhere we went they were okay with our dogs and we were 2 people with 6 dogs. We had 3 small dogs, and 3 medium dogs and no-one seemed to mind. People were actually surprised and chuckled when they would seeing us walking around with our pack of animals.
This included the restaurants. Every restaurant we went to we would ask if we could have dogs, I would tell them we had 6 and they would laugh and say its okay.
The people were so friendly towards us as foreigners and our dogs. I contacted a lot of hotels and tourist attractions and they were fine with our 6 dogs!
Nanshan Bamboo Forest
Important note: Only small and medium dogs allowed
Nanshan Bamboo Forest is a very popular tourist location. When we arrived, we had no idea what to expect or if it was dog friendly. I walked up to the ticket counter first and asked, they were fine with the dogs. They explained that the goes couldn’t go to the panda area of the park or on the cable cars. The park looked big from the map, so we were fine with that and bought our tickets.
The bamboo rafting was dog friendly, so we rented our own raft for 2 people and 6 dogs and headed to the raft. The raft driver was amused that we had so many dogs. After the rafting we headed through the bird area. There were loose peacocks walking around so we hurried through this area. After the bird area keep walking and you will get to a giant statue.
Here you have 2 options. Take the stairs to the right of the statue, or take the cable car. We inquired about it and dogs can actually take the cable car, they cannot take the ground cable car (tram) because it leads to the Pandas. We opted for the cable car because we were wet and cold from the rain. We managed to get our 6 dogs in the cable car and enjoyed the views. Once at the top there is a shop with indoor seating and more hiking options. We did not do the hike at the top as it was raining and the view was blocked by the fog.
We did take the stairs down instead of the cable car, and I’m glad we walked down them! It was a lot of stairs.
Overall, it was a great park and super dog friendly! It is an on-leash park but was still worth it with all the different activities we could do with the dogs.
