You may find giant waterfalls elsewhere. But you'll never find dense vegetation right in the middle of the falls except here in Jiuzhaigou.
Tree growing between practically every other line of fall !
and right in front of your eyes !
This is the biggest water fall in Jiuzhaigou.
Another angle of the fall
Trees, bushes, shrubs everywhere !
Water tumbling down
in every direction
Some sharp falls
A close up of one of the falls
And the water looks so fresh and so colorful !
But there are also gentler waters in smaller steps too. Where else in China, perhaps in the entire world (?) do you get such a full range of so many different styles of waterfalls so close to each other as in this magical valley?
西登香爐峰。
回覆刪除南見瀑布水。
掛流三百丈。
噴壑數十里。
口如飛練來。
隱若白虹起。
初驚河漢落。
半瀉雲天裏。
仰觀勢轉雄。
壯哉造化功。
海風吹不斷。
江月照還空。
空中亂口射。
左右洗青壁。
飛珠散輕霞。
流沫沸穹石。
而我樂名山。
對之心益閑。
無論漱瓊液。
且得洗塵顔。
且諧宿所好。
永願辭人間。
[超哥回覆11/14/2012 10:50:08]You're most welcome! Glad that it does describe what you have seen and felt!
[版主回覆11/14/2012 09:59:42]Thanks for this poem. It describes so well what I saw and how I felt! Thanks again.
早晨 Elzorro
回覆刪除[版主回覆11/14/2012 10:10:40]Same to you. Have a wonderful day. It's mid-week already !
I envy the fishes living in Jiuzhaigou
回覆刪除[版主回覆11/15/2012 22:53:40]As far as I can see, I don't think I found any fishes there. Probably because of the coldness of the water and the heavy concentration of mineral in the water !
wonderful^^
回覆刪除[版主回覆11/16/2012 15:45:59]Yes, it is. Welcome back.
Be they pleasing in the beginning, certain kinds of sound can be tiring when they become too familiar to the ear. But the sound of water, be they coming from the angry ocean, murmuring rivulets, gurgling springs, beating rains, light showers, rhythmic drops from eaves are always "heavenly music".
回覆刪除[版主回覆11/16/2012 15:53:54]There may be an evolutionary reason to it: to our primordial ancestors, the sound of water is the very sound of life itself. Scientists tell us we were orginally from the sea. The first thing scientists look for as a check on whether there is any life on any distant planet is to find out if there is any sign of water there, in whatever form ! Maybe, water spells the possibility of life for us too and hidden somewhere in some obscure corner in the deepest recesses of our brain, there is imprinted that faint memory stretching back millions of years to the origin of our primate ancestors' life, an instinctive affection for the sound of that life-giving liquid.
Elzorro 有冇去過 九寨溝呢 ?
回覆刪除[版主回覆11/16/2012 15:55:37]You sure are a real joker. Where do you think these photos come from?
九寨溝飛瀑之美果然名不虛傳！
回覆刪除[版主回覆11/17/2012 10:10:34]In front of the waterfalls, I felt so powerless, so inadequate ! It seemed as if I hardly knew anything about photography!