Jade Water Village
Snowmelt spring pools stocked with rainbow and golden trout below cascading waterfalls and a shaman temple.
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This guide to Jade Water Village near Lijiang opens with a tension: casting a line into pools that Naxi shamans still call sacred, and asks whether that is recreation or a kind of trespass. It follows meltwater traveling more than two thousand meters down from Jade Dragon Snow Mountain into pools that once fed only ceremony and village life, now crowded with golden and rainbow trout. You'll pass the Dongba Shiluo Temple nearby, where Naxi priests still gather once a year for their oldest religious conference, and three waterfalls locals call the dragon appearing, the dragon at play and the dragon's farewell. Rent a rod and land a fish of your own beside the shrine's quiet pools.
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