{"id":37294,"date":"2025-12-08T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=37294"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:39:01","slug":"day-04-yunnan-bluemoon-valley-and-baishui-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2025\/12\/08\/day-04-yunnan-bluemoon-valley-and-baishui-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 04 @ Lijiang – Bluemoon Valley and Baishui River"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I miss about our trips to South Korea and Japan are the English maps and guides that are often found in their places of interest and attractions. In comparison, I haven’t been able to find English brochures or info pamphlets for the places we’ve been visiting in Yunnan so far. Perhaps it’s a situation where the domestic tourism market is so large in China that they simply don’t need international tourists to get by. Or maybe those English brochures are somewhere in each place and I just haven’t been able to find them.<\/p>\n

In any case, the next place we visited was Blue Moon Valley<\/strong> and Baishui River<\/strong>. Or at least, I think \u2014 and I might be very wrong \u2014 that these were indeed the places we visited. According to websites, the valley has four lakes: Yuye Lake (\u7389\u6db2\u6e56), Jingtan Lake (\u955c\u6f6d\u6e56), Blue Moon Lake (\u84dd\u6708\u6e56), and Tingtao Lake (\u542c\u6d9b\u6e56). And problem #1: I couldn’t tell which was which! Still, the scenery was beautiful, with the calm turquoise waters of each lake offering transparency that I’ve only last seen a few months ago at Taisho-Ike Pond<\/a>. The several cascading waterfalls were also beautiful, and clearly a very popular spot for couples to have their wedding photos taken: we counted at least a dozen couples having their pictures taken. I think<\/em> Baishui River is the river that interconnects the four lakes through the valley.<\/p>\n

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One thing I miss about our trips to South Korea and Japan are the English maps and guides that are often found in their places of interest and attractions. In comparison, I haven’t been able to find English brochures or<\/p>\n

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