China Top Travel

Yunnan people often call lakes "seas" (pronounced "Hai"). The Bitahai Lake is 32 kilometers to the east of Zhongdian County. At Shuangqiao Bridge, visitors get off the bus and then walk or go on horseback for the final 7 kilometers across meadows and seas of flowers. The 840 square kilometer area surrounding the lake is the Bitahai Nature Reserve of the Diqing Tibetan Ethnic Minority Autonomous Prefecture. In Tibetan, Bita means a place with a dense forest. The Bitahai Lake is a fault lake, which lies in the heart of the Nature Reserve surrounded by mountains covered with ancient pines, oaks a...Read More