My DH and I traveled to the southwest corner of China this past month (November) to the province of Yunnan. Everything is so natural/basic. Beautiful green scenery and snow/glacier-capped mountains (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain). We encountered fingers of natural and lined streams of melt snow and glacier water, so clear it looked like crystal, running through many towns, villages, and irrigating fields.
Breathe taking scenery accented by lots of ooohs and ahhhs from a wide and colorful palette tickling our eyes made us fall in love with the life-style the people have adapted for the past few centuries.
These pictures really do not show how crystal clear the water in the ponds and streams are in real life. Many of the red goldfish in these ponds and streams are fish purchased by visitors, as an offering to make a wish to a water goddess, and then set free (only to be caught back later by entrepreneurs for more wishes -
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Seeing these fish made me miss my brood at home :'( "If only I could have water half as clear in my pond" was the other thought!
