weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

October is the main travel month in China when millions of people visit cities and increasingly nature sites. Additionally, here in the Jiuzhai National Park, the trees show their rich beauty in autumn colors and these colors, combined with the vaunted blue waters are huge magnets attracting ever-increasing numbers of visitors. One of the most famous ponds (and also one of the smallest), is the Five-Color-Pond, variously also named as Five-Colored-Pond, Five-Color-Lake, Peacock Lake, etc. The first images in this set show an immense throng of people at the favorite shores of that small pond, then we concentrate on the pond itself.

Five-Color Pond (五彩池, Wǔcǎi Chí) is one of the smallest bodies of water in Jiuzhaigou lakes. It has an area of just 5,645 m² / 60,000 sq ft and a depth of 6.6 m / 22 ft and is situated at an altitude of 2,995 m / 9,820 ft. Despite its very modest dimensions and depth, it has a richly colored underwater landscape with some of the brightest and clearest waters in the area. According to legend, this is the pond where the goddess Semo washed her hair and god Dage came daily to bring her water.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to THIS SERIES on SOUTH & EAST ASIA. See it at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-724330-1.html

COUNTRY INFO: Set # 2 provides more information on SICHUAN/CHINA, here is the link to review it:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-724445-1.html

JIUZHAIGOU INFO: Set 11 provides information on THIS PARK, see it at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-725445-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

Thanks for visiting, I recommend viewing the downloads and look forward to your comments and questions.

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1 - Zechawa Valley: Five-Color Pond

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2 - The masses of tourists at the height of the fall tourist season colorfully mirror in the clear waters, adding a few dozen additional color hues

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3 - Study in colors: Turquoise-green water and reflection of colorful clothing over a lake-bed with busy layers

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4 - Multi-hued intense blues are the hallmarks of this small pond

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5 - The strongest elements of surreal colors

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6 - Surreal colors and shadowy outlines in the reflection of the trees at the shore

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7 - Honing in on the details

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8 - Strong colors with whispy and shadowy reflections of trees in the rock-covered lake bed

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9 - Multi-hued blues and an element of wave-enhanced reflections

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10 - More details of the pond floor

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weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Explanatory material:

A - Trip map of the Sichuan segment for your reference

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B - Jiuzhaigou Valley National Park - Map of the three valleys and the many lakes for your reference

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C - Description of the Five-Colored Lake or Pond, aka Peacock Lake

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DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

Quite unique, interesting, and pretty.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Definitely a beautiful place, Joe. Is it ever without people?

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

Can I assume that this multi-colored lake is highly toxic? ... just like the similarly colored lake in the USA?

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Beautiful, Joe.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Doug for visiting the tour again and your nice comment.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks Barbara, glad you enjoyed the unusual beauty here. We visited this place in October and that is definitely the high season for this area and for China in general. I believe the park is open all year, but there could be temporary closures of certain areas in winter, even in October during our trip, we could not reach one particular place on the itinerary because of ice and snow at that altitude, which was too bad as it was supposed to be one of the highlights of the trip. I would expect that there would be much less people here in the winter. Also, the park is quite large with many different areas to walk and view, so the masses of people get really quite well distributed, except here at this small but famous pond where everybody will want to come, so the throng of people we encountered here is very unusual even for Chinese standards.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks for looking in on my travelogue. Interesting question - I searched high and low on the internet, but could not find any reference at all to the toxicity of the water in this lake. I would assume that if it was highly toxic that there would be a reference to it, so I have to assume that it is not toxic.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Ken!

lnl Loc: SWFL

Nice reflection shots, Joe. I found #3 especially fascinating with the reflections of the viewing population. And what a number of viewers! If there were that many people at this famous area years ago, I wonder how many would be going now.
The colors in the water remind me of the pools in Yellowstone. Beautiful shots.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Excellent water work, Joe!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Ellen, I really live for these reflections! They do have a maximum visitor limit at the park, otherwise the internal park bus transportation system could not handle the masses who all depend on these buses as private cars or buses are not allowed inside the park. I would assume that we were there on one of the peak days with the limits in effect, seeing all these crowds, because of the special "fall-color" time of the year. So there shouldn't really be bigger crowds now. Also, as I mentioned earlier, not all places are as crowded as the park is quite large and there are many places to walk and view. This here is a very small pond, so the masses are denser.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Mike for your kind comment - actually 3 of these pictures were taken by Susan with her small Canon PowerShot camera, so she deserves some of the praise!

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Certainly spectacular 🌀💙🌀💙🌀