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About Bandir Blue Lake
The China News Service's Xinjiang channel records that the lake lies in Taxkorgan County, Kashgar Prefecture, and describes it as a blue expanse praised as a beautiful blue eye of the Pamir plateau. The same item records that the lake was originally a reservoir built for water storage, that its water is glacial meltwater, and that the water is blue because of particular minerals, showing peacock-blue or deep-blue effects through the refraction of sunlight. It records that local people named it Bandir Blue Lake, and describes it as a sapphire set in the Kunlun Mountains.
A second item on the same channel, credited to the county's integrated media centre as its video source, places the lake inside Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County and records that the water is clear and transparent, its colour changing with light and angle — sometimes deep blue, sometimes light blue, sometimes emerald green — against grey-white rock strata and snow mountains.
Neither item gives the lake an area, an elevation or a boundary, and neither states whether it holds any protected status or how it is administered. No cited page states which parts of the lake are open, and the catalogue's own note about water levels and boardwalk opening is not carried by either page.
What to look for
- The colour the water is recorded as taking, which the second China News Service item gives as deep blue, light blue and emerald green as light and angle change
- The grey-white rock strata and the snow mountains that the same item records around the water
- The lake's reservoir origin, which the first China News Service item records as water storage
- The glacial meltwater the first item gives as the source of the lake's water, and the particular minerals it gives as the reason the water is blue
Location & getting there
Getting to Bandir Blue Lake
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- Search for 班迪尔蓝湖 with 喀什地区 and 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县.
Find Bandir Blue Lake
班迪尔蓝湖 · 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县
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Sources & visit information
The linked sources support the identity and background described in this introduction. Opening hours, admission, activity availability and exact arrival arrangements have not been comprehensively checked. Confirm current visitor information with the venue; the original catalogue locality and editorial review flag are retained.