Jiuzhaigou: retirement of singular landscapes

In the depths of the Minshan mountain range, to 400 km of the city of Chengdu (Sichuan), a place of singular landscapes is admired: Jiuzhaigou. Here superposed mountains are seen, intrincate multicoloured forests, flying Lagos, cascades – and exotic animal and birds. Penetrating in him, one is asked “ I will not perhaps have entered a mythological world”

In the area of natural landscapes, with a surface of 600 km2s, nine tibetanas villages exist, of there the name of jiuzhaigou (Valley of the Nine Villages). The trees of spontaneous life cover 52% with the place. Among them, lush bamboos and exotic flowers, ideal habitat for the giant panda, the golden monkey, the red deer of white lips and other animal under state protection grow.

The small valleys Suzheng, Rizhe and Zhecha conform an enormous valley in the form of “and”, that extends Here on 50 km, 108 exist to each other Lagos distributed gradually and communicated by means of cascades and streams. A really impressive beauty!

As far as the Lagos, mythology tells that to the Woluosemo goddess its precious mirror fell to him to the ground, memory of love flattered by the God Dagou. The mirror was broken and the pieces became the 108 Lagos multicoloured scattered in deep valleys. Of course, this one is not more than a legend. But how formed these “ mirrors "? The calcium carbonate that contains the water obstacles constitutes the determining factor. In immemorial times, when the Earth was in the period glacier, the calcium carbonate was not solidified and was mistaken following the water obstacles. But it does 12 000 years, the climate happened tempering, and in this way the calcium carbonate happened very active. When finding some obstacle, adhered to him. As result docks of milky color like those of Jiuzhaigou formed. Geologically they are denominated “ Lagos de Diques ".

Chinese mythology account that in the garden of the palace where it dwells Reina Mother of the West exists “ Pool of the Five Colors ". It has seen who it with his own eyes? Nobody, by all means. But one similar, yes, has! One is at heart of the Zhecha valley. Surrounded by virgin forests, it presents/displays varied colors: green, yellow clearly toasted, gray dark, reddish bluish. When a gust of wind passes through his superficice, the colors are confused to form stop that remembers the Pool of the Five Colors of Reina Mother. According to local people, the waters of the Zhecha lake are dyed by colorete of you foretell. In fact, the colors of the lake come from divesas classes of aquatic plants that grow in him.

The Wuhua lake (Five Flowers), in the Rizhe valley, is most impressive. Surrounded by hills in three by his sides, it presents/displays form of pilgrim pumpkin. Of him they are overflowed without stopping multicoloured waters. Nevertheless, which surprises the visitors more is “ reason for a red deer leg that sees itself in the abdomen of the lake ". Of about 10 ms of length, it takes spots that remember plum tree flowers. They are holes of dark green color appeared at heart of the rock. According to the legend, one is a red deer scared and forgotten when the God of the mountain left the dwelling where it lived.

Lost between color hills emerald, the Lagos is permanently in silence. But, such tranquility breaks the waters that are overflowed of illos. The cascades of Jiuzhaigou have their own characteristics. The water jump of Nuorilang is of 100 ms of width. The waters hurry among the willows that grow aligned in highest of the cascade. The trunks of these trees, what comb, “ composes " waters. The most impressive jump is the cascade of the Bank of the Rep them in the Rizhe valley, abruptly Falls from a cliff causing countless holes in the bank. The waters, when touching the ground, stand out forming infinity of drops of water. Under the sun, they seem Rep them of different colors.

Following the Zhecha valley, course to the north, is arrived at the Changhai lake, 3 000 meters s. n. m. He is vastest of Jiuzhaigou. In the middle of high crowned snow mountains, it is a completely isolated place of the world. It was not shortage until years 70 when a group of men penetrated in mountains to destroy trees. Who are there been they inform: In summer, he is very pleasant to row there in some lake; in spring, the crowned perpetual snow mountains are adorned with flowers and its reflection in the lake is a primaveral landscape in the heat of winter; in autumn, hermosea with the red leaves of the maples and their reflection in an autumnal landscape in winter; and in winter, in short, the lake is covered with a heavy white ice layer.

Jiuzhaigou is, in truth, a land of ensoñación.