Lashi Lake, on the southern slope of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and 6.2 miles (10 km) from Lijiang Old Town, is part of the Lijiang – Lashihai Plateau Wetland Nature Reserve. It is a paradise for migrant birds and thousands of them stay here over winter every year. It is also the origin of the Ancient Tea Horse Road. Despite being called Lashihai (Hai means sea), it is actually a lake cut off by Lashi Dam. Lashi is a word in ancient Naxi language, meaning a “new desolate dam”. The lake was formed in the Pliocene epoch and is around 20 square miles (5, 330 hectares). It is on an altitude of about 7,995 feet (2, 437 meters). Because of the lake, the wetland nature reserve was established in 1998.
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