China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Pretty Woman Next to Prayer Wheels

...and while on the subject of people, my much better half with some of those prayer wheels that Monks use to spin around.  Would've done much more with this had I had the Bigger Cahoona with me at the time.

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Someone Else's Group Photo

Don't know why, but always liked taking pictures of groups looking at someone else.  No need to know who these people are, though one appears to maybe have an objection.  I snuck away pretty quickly, so didn't get the chance to have a conversation with him...

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Roadside Billboard

This sign happened to be in town, but all roadside billboards in the park were mounted the same way.

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Giant Electronic Billboard

The huge sign posted yesterday ends here, next to a giant electronic billboard that changed regularly.  This billboard must have been about fifty feet high.

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Huge Blue Bi-Lingual Sign

Taking a gander through this little town proved interesting.  One thing I observed about China is that they like huge signs and electronic displays...billboards if you will...the above being an example.  Even inside airports you'll see huge, billboard-sized electronic signs.

Closer view below of sign above, which stretched a ways along the hillside:

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Bi-Colored Confluence

Here's something you don't see too often, this confluence of two differently-colored streams.  The water in the foreground has streamed through the town, and is probably snowmelt from further away.  In the background is water originating from points closer, carrying silt directly from the nearby mountainsides.

This is what is seen in town further upstream:

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Reflection Shot from Inside the Tibetan Structure

Nobody was inside for obvious reasons, so stayed on the edge to capture this reflection shot created by the perfectly smooth pool of water.  Had some questions about this place, but everyone was moving and hustling and bustling so that I lost the group, which moved on with the crowd.

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Tibetan Flag Structure in Pengfengcun

Though I had no idea what the significance is of this structure, the way it was made and how it looked against the mountain backdrop was captivating.  It was big, and obviously a big deal to the Tibetans, but I wondered whether there was a purpose to the ragged flags that partially make up its roof.  Are they replaced once in a while?  Are they prayer flags or what?  Regardless, think it makes a pretty good picture...

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Tibetan Religious Fixture

...and as can be seen, most others had the same idea, bypassing the Visitor Center to see what this is all about.

China - Juizhai Valley National Park, Scenery Visitor Center

...and this is where most of the hustlers and bustlers were headed, the Juizhaigou Scenery Qu Visitor Center.  We didn't walk in, passing it by to view what we see in the next couple of posts.