Today's goal is to go to Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture to see Sword Lake.
After having breakfast in Xiangyun County in the morning, I went all the way to the west, turned north through the urban area of Dali, walked forward slowly, and solved the lunch in the roadside shop.
In the afternoon, I saw a lake on the side of the road, so I decisively parked the car in a safe place, took a few photos**, and continued to follow the navigation to Sword Lake.
I have to say that Dali Dam is really a place favored by God. Dali, Lijiang, Chuxiong and other places are also in the arid areas of central Yunnan, and the turn of spring and summer every year is the time when a large amount of water is needed for sowing, but drought often affects agricultural production. However, there are several natural lakes in Dali Dam, which is not only a rare plateau natural landscape, but also can be appropriately used for industrial and agricultural production. In addition to the well-known Erhai Lake, there are also Xibi Lake, Eryuan West Lake and Jianchuan Sword Lake, which will be visited today. And Dali's neighbor to the east, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, has 2With a land area of more than 80,000 square kilometers, there is not even a decent natural lake, which is really unfair.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the navigator finally took me to a large parking lot on the edge of Sword Lake, where there were only about a dozen cars, and there was no manager to collect parking fees.
Maybe I came from the wrong place, parked the car and walked along a wooden plank road, and came to the lake to have a look, but only saw some landscapes similar to wetlands, and the blue lake is still far away, it is difficult to approach.
After climbing up to the observation deck to see it, I was reluctant and walked about three kilometers along the lakeside path, which was still a wetland landscape, and I did not see the large blue lake that I expected.
Returned to the parking lot, looked at the surrounding environment, it was quite suitable for camping, the only drawback is that there is no bathroom, so I left to live in Jianchuan County, tomorrow I will go to Lijiang to pick up the two brothers into Tibet together.