jiǔ zhài gōu　 
                九　 寨　 沟
 

Jiu Zhai Gou lies in north Sichuan Province, 45 kilometers away from Nanping County Town.
The area is about 60,000 hectares. Because of the inconvenient traffic, few people had visited the great mountains of the area. There're nine Tinbetans once lived here and this is why it is called Jiu Zhai Gou.
Jiu Zhai Gou is a deep valley of Mt. Minshan and looks like the letter "Y". The valley is about 40 kilometers long and its elevation is from 2000 to 3000 meters. Jiu Zhai Gou is near the another famous scenic area Huang Long Temple, actually both of them are called " the heavenly scenery on earth".
There're tens of graceful peaks around the valley and more than 20,000 hectares area of Primitive forest in it. There're 108 lakes in the valley which was called Hai Zi by the Tinbetans. Some lakes are more tens of meters deep but they are pretty clear that you can see their bottoms from the surfaces.
There're stones in the bottom which are the homes of the alga. In the sunshine, you'll find the images of the alga and trees become colorful on the surfaces of the lakes and are really beautiful!
Green lakes, colorful woods, a great many falls, ever snow peaks and the custom of the nine Tinbetan villages are the five attractions of Jiu Zhai Gou Scenic Area.