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Upper Season Haizi is situated in
a lush and luxuriant cal, while Lower season Haizi is closely
next to Five Colors Pool. Volume of the two lakes varies timely:
sometimes overflowing, and sometimes dried up. In rainy autumns,
the water is rising, with a color of bright blue, while these
turn glossy green in summers. In winters, they run dry, and
throughout the bed grow up many grasses, making the lakes excellent
pasture kilometers from north to south and 4.4 kilometers from
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covers an area of about 2 million square meters. It is the largest
and highest lake in Jiuzhaigou. Opposite the lake, snow-capped mountains
are all elevated about 4000 to 5000 meters, with typical glacier landscapes
of cirques, U-shaped valley etc. In spring and autumn, it is more
fantastic: the reflection of flowers clustering around the ice-covered
peaks in the water and the scenery of yellow leaves and red maples
grown round the lake. Another spectacle is that water neither brims
over the bank in the rainy summer and fall nor never runs dry in the
winter and spring. Local Tibetan people praise it as "a precious
gourd that will never be poured full or dried up." At the time
of bitter winters, the lake is frozen over with a depth of 60 cm.
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