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You’ll probably want to take the train to Xichang first which is about 10-12 hours I think (could be wrong). Then another 6 hours on the bus to Lugu Lake.
We got back now, that’s pretty right, though there is some construction on the road so it’s 7-8 hours on the bus at the moment.
It’s worth noting that you can take overnight sleepers to/from xichang. So that takes a big bite out of the journey. the bus trip isn’t a breeze though. it twists allot even by local standards, except for a break crossing a small plateau at yanyuan. On the bus there half the passengers were throwing up, which was also ‘interesting’