The beauty of Lashi Lake is boundless

Lashi Lake is located in the middle of Lashi Dam, 10 kilometers west of Lijiang City, and is the first natural reserve in Yunnan Province named after "wetland", adjacent to the colorful rose base. "Lashi" is the ancient Naxi language translation, where "La" means barren dam and "Shi" means new, signifying a new barren dam. Lashi Lake was originally part of the ancient trough in northwest Yunnan. During the Mesozoic Yanshan movement, it was folded and uplifted into land, and by the Miocene, it became a quasi-plain. With the development of the orogeny of the Hengduan Mountains, by the end of the Pliocene to the beginning of the Pleistocene, this quasi-plain under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain was divided into three plateau intermountain basins with relative height differences of 100 to 200 meters, namely Lashi Dam, Lijiang Dam, and Qihai Dam. Be sure to come and see it if you have the chance!