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Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, the only one in the country with two laurels, "World Natural Heritage" and "World Biosphere Reserve", is a holy place that I have been wanting for a long time. On October 23, 2021, I met with my friends and drove to Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan.
On the evening of the 23rd, I stayed at the Vienna Hotel in Xinyang, Henan, opposite the hotel, there is a "good place private food hotel", and when I traveled to Gannan, Gansu Province in July this year, I passed through Xinyang, Henan, and the Nanwan fish I ate for dinner at his house was super delicious. When I went to his house this time, there was a table banquet in the hotel, and the quality of the dishes declined.
On the evening of the 24th, I stayed at the Vienna Hotel in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Not far from the hotel, 80 meters north of the Wangjiang Road TV Tower, the "Northeast Country Iron Pot Stew" big fish farm dinner opened by Northeast people. It is well known that Northeast people like to eat stews, and it is said that the dishes stewed in an iron pot taste good, there are soups and vegetables, and they can also supplement iron. We ordered his three-flavor fish (salmon, herring, and whitefish) set.
At 7 p.m. on the 25th, we successfully arrived at the "Jiuzhaigou Celebrity Hotel" in Zhangzha Town, Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan.
After breakfast at 7 a.m. the next morning, it takes 5 minutes to drive to the parking lot of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area. Next to the walking path, the brilliant colors of golden autumn come to your face, and the clouds and mist drift on the colorful forests of the mountains - hehe, this is telling me that the most brilliant season in Jiuzhaigou is today!
Jiuzhaigou is a large tributary of the source of the Baishui River in the upper reaches of the Jialing River in the Yangtze River system. There are nine Tibetan villages in the scenic area (at present, only three villages, Shuzheng Village, Zechawa Village, and Heye Village, are retained in the scenic area), because the Tibetans of these nine villages have lived here for generations, so it is called "Jiuzhaigou".
The main ditch of Jiuzhaigou is "Y" shaped, consisting of three main ditches: Rize Ditch, Zecha Wa Ditch and Shuzheng Ditch, with a total length of more than 50 kilometers. It presents a high terrain in the south and low in the north, a large difference in the depth and height of the valley, and it belongs to a zone between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Sichuan Basin, so the geological movement here is very strong and has a variety of landforms.
Rize Gou is located on the right branch of the "Y" shaped layout of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, with a total length of 18 kilometers from Nuorilang Waterfall to the primeval forest. Between Nuorilang Waterfall and Jianzhu Sea, it is the essence of the scenery of Jiuzhaigou, which is beautiful and varied.
Jiuzhaigou is known as the "King of Water Features", so after entering the scenic spot, take a sightseeing bus directly to the Arrow Bamboo Sea.
When I got out of the car, the air was filled with fog and frost, a layer of ice and snow accumulated on the wooden plank road, and a piece of snow and frost hung on the spruce in front of me.
Unknown trees grow in the light green sea, glowing with golden colors; The figure of the nearby fir tree was a little "thin", but it was still standing upright in high spirits.
Walk around the Arrow Bamboo Sea along the wooden plank road , The colors of late autumn and the charm of early snow are already around you.
Arrow bamboo is the food that giant pandas like to eat, and the arrow bamboo sea grows widely around the lake shore, which is the biggest feature of the arrow bamboo sea, hence the name.
The Arrow Bamboo Sea is 2,629 meters above sea level, covers an area of 151,000 square meters, and has a water volume of 930,000 cubic meters. The mirror-like lake reflects the illusory snow-capped mountains, and the straight and upright spruce trees on the lakeside seem to grow vividly in the water.
The surface of the Arrow Bamboo Sea Lake is open and long, the water is blue and green, and the reflection is vivid, making it impossible to tell whether the mountain (tree) is in the water or the mountain (tree) is flooded.
It is reported that Zhang Yimou's movie "Hero" also had a scene where the broken sword and Wu Ming competed with the sword here, which made him famous.
The water of the Arrow Bamboo Sea flows into the forest, is divided into many bundles by the embankment formed by the collapse, and falls along the embankment, forming the Arrow Bamboo Sea Waterfall.
The waterfall is 150 meters wide, with a drop of only 2-5 meters, and the waterfall is divided into two. Waterfalls and shoals are interdependent, layer upon layer.
azure sea, The white waterfall and golden branches constitute a colorful spectacle of stillness in motion, movement in stillness, and a combination of movement and stillness.
Follow the wooden plank road next to the Arrow Bamboo Sea downhill to the Panda Sea. On both sides of the plank road, the sound of roaring water is accompanied along the way, and it is a "water forest".
Descend for about 10 minutes, A pool of Tiffany blue sea appeared in front of you - the panda sea has arrived!
Giant pandas are regarded as auspicious objects and are deeply loved by Tibetans in Jiuzhaigou. It is said that the giant pandas of Jiuzhaigou like to come here to wander, drink water, and forage the most, so this lake is called the Panda Sea.
The Panda Sea is 2,574 meters above sea level, covers an area of 108,000 square meters, and has a water volume of 1.8 million cubic meters, making it a glacial dammed lake. The texture of the rock wall by the lake is peculiar.
Panda Sea The waters are crystal clear, The peaks stand still, the reflections are clear, the shore is interspersed with forests, and the shadows of the mountains are blurred.
A charming picture that keeps changing, this second is absolutely different from the previous second, and there are absolutely no two pictures that are exactly the same, this is the Panda Sea.
The breeze blows, The panda sea was filled with layers of green ripples, and the shadows of the mountains and trees were engulfed by these ripples for a while......
Walking along the observation deck on the north side of the Panda Sea to the end, down a steep staircase step by step, I saw a jet rushing down to the bottom of the valley, and in the middle of the stream was cut into several sections by the rock wall and boulders protruding from under the cliff. (I don't see the observation deck here, it is difficult to take pictures when shooting, which may be related to the 2017 Jiuzhaigou County earthquake)
On the evening of August 8, 2017, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, destroying some famous scenic spots and seriously damaging infrastructure. On September 27, 2019, Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area was restored to 85% of the pre-earthquake open area. On September 28 this year, Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area ushered in the opening of the whole area, that is, Panda Sea, Arrow Bamboo Sea, Swan Sea, Primitive Forest and other scenic spots above the Five Flowers Sea, to meet tourists again.
I wanted to go around to the "tiger's mouth" to see the panoramic view of the Five Flowers Sea, but the staff of the scenic spot told me that the tiger's mouth was too dangerous and has now been sealed. Then he passed through the tunnel and took a sightseeing bus to Wuhuahai.
Get off the car, a The "color screen" is gorgeous and dazzling - the most beautiful golden autumn in Jiuzhaigou flashes in front of you.
From afar, what caught my eye was the green, bright yellow, orange-red, and dark green in the embrace of the sea of flowers...... There are also some colorful shadows with clear layers of inexplicable colors, which are intertwined with each other but not chaotic, contrast each other but do not erode, embellish each other but do not crowd out, beautiful and just right.
Wuhuahai is 2,462 meters above sea level, 450 meters long, 313 meters wide, and 9 meters deep, and is a dammed lake formed by landslides and debris flows blocking the original glacier gully, and is known as "Jiuzhaigou is a unique" and "Jiuzhai essence".
Sections of tree trunks appear under the clear and colorful five-flower sea lake. Travertine deposits and a variety of brightly colored algae make a lake divided into many color blocks, exuding a charming style.
The sea of five flowers is like an open screen peacock, colorful, dazzling, beautiful, this is a real fairy tale world, a legendary paradise of colors!
a lake, Harmonized by nature into a colorful and beautiful scene, it is a spectacular scene that can never be created by man.
The trestle bridge from the exit of Wuhuahai follows the wooden plank road to the "Peacock River".
Walking along the Peacock River is like walking in an oil painting created by the most intense colors, and the surrounding scenery is like peacock feathers, blending the most beautiful blue and green, red and yellow in the world.
The river winds, The shrubs and miscellaneous trees on both sides are dyed with autumn colors, which is extremely gorgeous ......
water flows between trees, Trees grow in the water - like a living picture, which makes people fascinated.
The trees naturally pour into the sea, and the dead wood is half out of the water, and new saplings will take root on it, growing small trees.
Red birch trees next to the plank road. Red birch trees are light-loving and cold-resistant, with trunks up to 30 meters high, and are mainly distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi and other provinces and regions at an altitude of 1000 meters to 3400 meters. Red birch wood has a hard texture, fine structure, and beautiful patterns, and can be used to make furniture or boards, and the bark can be used as a hat or packaging material.
In front of the Peacock River is the Golden Bell Sea, named because the two lakes, one large and one small, are closely connected and resemble copper bells.Jinling Sea is 2,455 meters above sea level, 16 meters long and 26 meters deep, and is a dammed lake, of which the small lake is 103 meters deep, which is the deepest of all the lakes in Jiuzhaigou.
Legend has it that Zaizaga, the god of thousands of mountains, was a demon who once shook the golden bell here and left a pair of golden bells here, and then the golden bell turned into two large and small lakes, hence the name.
The large and small golden bell seas are connected next to each other, and the lake water is blue, like a pair of blue eyes in a river valley, hidden deep in the dense shade of the forest.
Pearl Beach is a relatively wide stone beach among the many lakes in Jiuzhaigou. There is a trestle bridge across the pearl beach, and the water beach on the south side of the trestle is covered with shrubs. The rapids pass under the trestle and on the shallows on the north side, stirring up countless rolling and jumping pearls.
Pearl Beach is 2,450 meters above sea level, 112.3 meters wide and 189 meters long, with an average slope of 20 degrees and a relative height difference of 15 meters. This is the place where the Tang monk and his apprentice wade through the water at the beginning of the TV series "Journey to the West".
The beach surface of Pearl Beach is home to a large number of algae and water-loving shrubs dotted around. The water flow of about 100 meters falls into the river valley in multiple stages here, and due to the action of "biological karst" and chemical deposition in the flowing water, the beach surface is scaly and rippled, and the clear torrent splashes countless broken waves on it, dazzling and dazzling under the refraction of light, like rolling pearls.
Legend has it that a long time ago, a passing goddess fell in love with a Tibetan youth, and the young man gave her a string of pearl necklaces, and the goddess gave him a mountain axe in return. The young man used a mountain axe to open a canal to divert water, and when the god found out, he was furious, sent troops to capture the goddess, and tore off the necklace around her neck, and the pearls fell to the ground, turning into a beautiful pearl beach.
The water rushing from the pearl beach rolls down the edge of the cliff, forming a wide crescent-shaped waterfall. The waterfall fell to the bottom of the valley, emitting a deafening roar and forming a raging torrent. This rapids is the most beautiful, the most rapid, and the loudest sound among all the rapids in Jiuzhaigou.
Pearl Beach Waterfall is 2,443 meters above sea level, 21 meters high and 162 meters wide, with a maximum drop of 40 meters, which is a typical combined landscape in Jiuzhaigou. The content of negative oxygen ions here is extremely rich, hundreds of times higher than that of the plain area, and is known as the "natural oxygen bar".
Stepping on the plank road, continue eastward in the company of the rapids, that is, to the east side of Pearl Beach. The slope of the beach here is larger, the beach surface is more uneven, and the rapids jump, the scene is even more spectacular.
There is a "8.8 stone" in the woods next to the plank road, remembering a piece of history: at 21:19 on August 8, 2017, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in Jiuzhaigou. The earthquake caused a high-level collapse, and the boulder rolled from the mountain at an altitude of 2,654 meters into the river valley, with a vertical drop of 272 meters. The stone is 9.2 meters high, 163 cubic meters, and weighs about 522 tons, and is dolomite limestone, formed in a marine environment of 320 million years, which has witnessed the vicissitudes of Jiuzhaigou. The earthquake caused the boulders to break away from the mountain and roll down, destroying the vegetation along the way and forming a huge trench.
At the end of the plank road is the sightseeing car, take the last attraction to Rize Ditch, "Mirror Sea".
With an altitude of 2,367 meters, a length of 1,155 meters, a width of 241 meters, and a depth of 31 meters, Jinghai Sea is the third largest lake in Jiuzhaigou, named after the calm water surface like a mirror. But the best time to see the Mirror Sea is before 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Although the best time to shoot was missed, the attractions above the Mirror Sea were chosen at the right time! In fact, if you miss the afterglow of the sunset, you can still look forward to the starry sky.
After the tour in Rizegou, take the sightseeing bus to the Norilang Service Center and go to Norilang Restaurant for lunch.
Zechawagou is located on the left branch of the "Y" shaped layout of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, from Nuorilang Service Center to Changhai, nearly 18 kilometers long, which is the highest altitude line in Jiuzhaigou.
After lunch and rest for 1 hour, take a sightseeing bus directly to the end of Zecha Wagou "Changhai".
Changhai is 3,101 meters above sea level, with a total length of about 4,350 meters, a width of 300 meters, a depth of 90 meters, a storage capacity of 45 million cubic meters, and an "S" shape.
Jiuzhaigou is one of the best-preserved areas of Quaternary ancient glacier sites in western our country, including hanging glaciers, ice bucket glaciers, and flat top glacier landforms. The glacier's ice and entrained stones are very erosive, and the valley is excavated like an excavator. Among them, ice buckets, U-shaped valleys, ice erosion lakes, Jiaofeng and Daoling are typical glacial erosion landscapes. The Long Sea belongs to the ice bucket landform.
There is no outlet in the Changhai Sea, and the water source comes from the melting snow in the mountains. Strangely, the Long Sea never dries up or overflows, so Tibetans call it a treasure gourd that is "full and leaky". Changhai can also be regarded as the mother of all the seas in Jiuzhaigou. Because there is no outlet, water can only be discharged by evaporation and underground rivers, and these underground rivers are an important supply of water sources from other lakes.
The dark blue long sea is cold and elegant, looking holy and elegant, like an extraordinary beauty, graceful and beautiful, so beautiful that there is no trace of powder.
Turning to the end of the S bend of the long sea, the dark blue sea reveals a clear and deep blue-green, and it is extremely virtuous and peaceful.
Next to this magnificent scenery, an ancient pine tree trunk stands upright, and all the branches are located on one side of the trunk, while the other side is bare, like a one-armed old man who has gone through vicissitudes of life guarding this blue and green sea.
Paced down the wooden plank road next to the observation deck and came to the pool of ink jade.Watching the long sea up close, I feel that the lake surface is as wide as the sea, the lake ink is as green as jade, the white snow caresses the colorful forest, and the clouds are like a fantasy ......
1 km down from Changhai to the colorful pond. The colorful pond is 3,010 meters above sea level, about 100 meters long, 60 meters wide, and 6.6 meters deep, and is hidden deep in the deep valley under the highway.
The colorful pond is the smallest and most exquisite of the many seas in Jiuzhaigou, and is famous for its beauty, purity and transparency. It is said that when the ground is frozen three feet in winter, the pool water is still rippling; The four seasons alternate between rain and drought, and the pool water seems to have not increased or decreased. This is because the pool water is supplied underground by the Changhai located at a high place, and the underground water is generally stable throughout the year.
The edges and corners of the gravel at the bottom of the colorful pool, The texture of the rock face is distinct one by one, and the pool water is blue and royal green, clear and translucent. The exquisite colorful pool is therefore called the Eye of Jiuzhai.
The lake is home to aquatic plant communities such as water wool, rotifers, and small ferns, which contain different shades of chlorophyll and show different colors in the lake water rich in calcium carbonate. Coupled with the reflection of the trees by the sea, in the same lake, some of the waters are blue, some are light green, some are crimson yellow, and some are pink...... The changes are endless, and it is really beautiful.
Shuzhenggou is located in the lower branch of the "Y" layout of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, from Nuorilang Waterfall to Goukou, nearly 14 kilometers long, with a total of more than 40 various lakes, accounting for about 40% of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area.
At an altitude of 2,343 meters, 24.5 meters high and 320 meters wide, Nuorilang is the widest alpine travertine waterfall in China. "Nuo Rilang" means male god in Tibetan, symbolizing tall and majestic. This is the ending filming location of the TV series "Journey to the West".
The water of Norilang Waterfall comes from the gushing water of more than 40 lakes in the Shuzheng Qun Sea, and the water pours down from the trees at the top of the waterfall, forming a rare forest waterfall.
The vast water potential, Like the Milky Way falling, the momentum is like a rainbow, and the waterfall pouring down shakes the valley.
Golden Autumn, Valley Slope, Thousands of purples and reds, like a heavy oil painting.
Nuorilang Waterfall is divided into countless streams among red, yellow and green leaves, and the scenery is extremely charming.
The arrow in the picture below points to the part of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Jiuzhaigou County on August 8, 2017, and the severely damaged section of Nuorilang Waterfall collapsed in this earthquake.
Take a sightseeing bus from the Nori Lang waterfall exit and head to the Tiger Sea.
The Tiger Sea is 2,298 meters above sea level, 310 meters long, 194 meters wide, and 23 meters deep, and is named after tigers love to drink water in this lake.
In late autumn, The colorful forest is reflected on the blue surface of the lake, and the unknown red and green branches next to the plank road are dotted with the lake.
The Tiger Sea is located above the Shuzheng Waterfall, staring at a lake of blue sea, there is a feeling of not seeing the waves - there is violence in silence, and unruliness is hidden in tranquility?!
Walking along the plank road in the direction of the ditch, the rumbling sound of water hit the eardrums.
A lotus petal , multi-level round waterfalls appear in front of you.
Shuzheng Waterfall is located next to the road in front of Shuzheng Village and is the smallest of the four major waterfalls in Jiuzhaigou. At an altitude of 2,295 meters, a height of 25 meters, and a width of 72 meters, the nameless seawater rushes along the lake embankment, and is divided into thousands of water bundles by the trees in the water and gathers to the top of the waterfall.
upstream of Shuzheng Waterfall, The spring water flowed overflowing, passing through the trees and rock crevices and splitting into thousands of streams, sometimes swallowing, washing the stones and passing by.
On the embankment of the terraced lake, there are various shrubs unique to the plateau, rooted at the bottom of the water, standing proudly in the torrent, perennial of the impact of flowing water without falling, not rotting roots, graceful style, forming a special plant community and a rare natural wonder in the world.
Shuzheng Waterfall is the source of living water in Shuzheng Quanhai. The water of the upper sea jumped over the lake embankment and overflowed from the trees, stirring up white splashes, jumping and jumping in the pink blue and green color, shuttling and rushing.
The sea is 2187-2280 meters above sea level, and its topography is based on the superimposed debris flow accumulation in the river valley, and then deposited by travertine, forming 19 lakes of various sizes, layered along the valley.
Between the trees and the sea, A long trestle bridge crosses the shallows. Stroll on the pier and enjoy the rippling waters and seas on the shallows.
Opposite the road at the exit of the trestle is Shuzheng Village, which is the most popular Tibetan village in Jiuzhaigou.
Standing on the intersection plank road overlooking, 19 Haizi are like 19 blue-green jadeite, embedded in the deep mountains and valleys, connected by yellow, green-purple woods and silver waterfalls, as if bringing a beautiful gemstone necklace to Shuzhengzhai.
The entire sea is layered, and the blue color in the middle of green is innocent and natural; The colorful forests of the mountains and the blue sea complement each other, like a colorful wonderland ...... on earth
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