The Valley of the Nine Villages is populated largely by Tibetan and Qiang minority families, and sits just to the north of the epicenter of May's big earthquake. It was not known until the 1970's that the Min Mountains were host to a fantastic, almost mystical series of lakes - undisturbed for so long that the water takes on a deep aqua-purple color under the right light.
It was overcast, however, when I spent the day trekking from lake to lake, realizing that, despite my predilection for creature comforts and cultural sight-seeing, that being alone, in the mountains, by the water, in the cold, can fulfill on a completely different level. The water, anyway, looked like this:
And like this, a little higher up:
And like this, when it's serving as a reflective plate for the vain vegetation surrounding Mirror Lake:
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