weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

SHUZHENG TIBETAN VILLAGE - At the conclusion of our walks along the rivers and lakeshores, we end up at the Shuzheng Tibetan Village, aka Shuzheng Zhai Village (Zhai actually means "village") situated in the Shuzheng Valley above the Sleeping Dragon Lake and Shuzheng Waterfall.

This is the largest and busiest of all nine villages here in Jiuzhaigou Valley, about 400 of the total 1000 inhabitants of the valley area live here. Tibetan style log houses line the main street and a few side streets, colorful prayer flags wave in the breeze. Since agriculture is no longer permitted inside the National Park, many of the local population operate small stores here and sell various Tibetan souvenirs as well as yak butter tea and snacks.


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 - Entrance gate seen from outside of the village

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2 - Entrance gate and buildings richly decorated in Tibetan motives, seen from the main street of the village

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3 - Intricately decorated building, possibly the entrance to a small temple

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4 - Building richly decorated in Tibetan motives

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5 - Detail of two of the paintings on the house facade shown in #4 above

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6 - Interior court of a building off the main street, extensively decorated in Tibetan motives and topped with rectangular "lung ta-style" prayer flags

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7 - Closer view of the facade decoration of the above building

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8 - Detail of 2 painted panels on the facade of the above building

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9 - Another 2 painted panels from the same building

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10 - A final painted panel from a different building

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weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

For your reference:

A - Trip map of the Sichuan segment

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B - Jiuzhaigou Valley National Park - Map of the three valleys and the many lakes, the Shuzheng Village is not shown on this map, its location is just beyond the bottom left corner, underneath the Sleeping Dragon Lake

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

NICE!

MT native Loc: Big Sky Country — Montana

Thanks for sharing your incredible travels. Very nice series.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Can’t imagine the time and effort put into these paintings.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Bill, glad to hear that you enjoyed this set.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Dennis for your kind comment, I am happy to hear that you enjoy this series which will now take a different tack, getting back into human habitats but with quite different cultural aspects.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks Barbara, yes there must have been much effort to achieve all this, but then on the other hand there would be less distractions, especially in the past, for the people living in these remote areas.

Annie-Get-Your-Gun Loc: Byron Center, Mi

An interesting set of beautiful images, weberwest.

GrannyAnnie

These shots are wonderful! Since my "thing" is buildings and architectural details and I know I will never have the opportunity to visit this part of the world, I really enjoyed you sharing these with us!!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Annie, I am happy to hear that you enjoyed this set.

angler Loc: StHelens England

Most enjoyable,excellent set Joe

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you GrannyAnnie for looking in on my new travelogue and your kind comment - I am happy to hear that you enjoyed these images and that your main interest is on architectural details. I believe that this is the first time I see you commenting on one of my tour series, so here is a special welcome to you!

This will be a long tour through four countries in Asia, with a good mix of landscapes, architecture, culture and people, so I encourage you to look in again on the series and hopefully enjoy some other captures. As I said, this will be a well-balanced tour, if you are particularly interested in architecture, I wonder whether you noticed the travelogue I was posting last summer on the "North European Plain", documenting a trip we took from the northern Netherlands through northern Germany into western Poland. That was an interesting trip, particularly architecturally with, I would say, some 90% of the pictures related to architecture. If you have not noticed it at that time, you might want to go back and have a look at it. I have to caution you though, it was a very long series with just over 100 posts, so you would have to have plenty of time on your hand to dive into that.

You can click on the following link with provides the list of the topics I posted, then click on the top to page 6, this travelogue starts in the upper part of this page. Post #1 as usual provides an overview with the maps and some trip and location data, the proper tour starts with post #2. No push, and I know this would be a very long viewing adventure, just thought I mention it.
Link: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

Again, welcome to the tour! - Joe

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Jim, I am happy that you enjoyed this set.

Umnak Loc: Mount Vernon, Wa.

Excellent details you showcased in this vivid little town. I really like the depiction of the falls/river behind the tiger in your detailed shots of the paintings.
Any idea about the circular depictions below(#4, on the foundation/façade), with regards to their meanings? Great angle/perspective on that 2nd shot in this set!!!
Very enjoyable series, as usual Joe!!
Rob