Mother Nature's techni-colour dream coat : Day 3

Posted by Gingerblossom at 7:14 AM

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Mirror lake pix


Day 3 of our trip and our 2nd visit to the nature reserve
The sun was out! And once again the scenery changed. Sunny days in Jiuzhaigou are for admiring the lakes which turn into mirrors for Mother Nature to admire herself! We hit the same sites on Rize Valley and also visited Zechawa. Zechawa isn't as interesting although it boasts the largest lake in the entire reserve. It's big but that's about it. Not quite as colourful as the other lakes.

On this day other new sites we hit were:
a. Long Lake and 5 color Pong in the Zechawa Valley

b. Rhinocerous lake ( Story goes that centuries ago, a lama apparently came upon this lake while riding a rhino ... yes a rhino... the lake's beauty touched him and he let loose his rhino to graze by its waters for the remainder of its days.)
c. Shuzheng Tribe ( Jiuzhaigou nature reserve used to have 9 tribes living in the area. Apparently 3 are accessible, Shuzheng being 1 of them, 4 others are deep in the forests and still closed to public and 2 have become assimilated with the existing tribes)


The photos we took look pretty much the same - trees, water, sky. And that's what we were in Jiuzhaigou for. The photos certainly don't do justice to the real thing...

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