“This is most
beautiful water ever. I can’t imagine any more fascinating view than this.”
Rock once wrote in his journal, “this is the heaven on earth which God lives
here.” This is the Lugu Lake
which Rock gave such high accomplishment. Lugu Lake
is about 50 square kilometers large. Its sea level is nearly 2690m. The local
residents of Lugu
Lake are mainly Mosuo
people.
Few people heard
of Rock, unless you are a big fan of tourism. Joseph F. Rock, the botanist,
explorer, photographer and ethnographer, came to China in 1920s and wrote a book
named Shangri-La. He was in deep love the customs and natural view of south China.
Mosuo people treat
Lugu Lake as their mother lake. Lugu Lake
is rounded by mountains. There are three months of snow cover. The average
depth of the lake is 45meters and the deepest place reaches 93meters. The
transparency reaches 11meters. It is the deepest freshwater lake in China and the plateau lake of highest elevation
in Yunnan
province. The lake is surrounded by green mountains. The local people told me
that the deepest place of Lugu
Lake is 93m. Lugu lake is
one of the deepest freshwater lake in China.
Now I follow the
footsteps of Rock and come to visit this heaven-like place.
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