Frozen Waterfall

Posted by Spluch in Pictures, Travel & Places on January 5, 2007 at 2:51 pm


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A waterfall at the foot of Flame Mountain with a 20 meters drop which has frozen over. It is located in Turufan, XinJiang province, China. Link [in Chinese]


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28 comments to "Frozen Waterfall"

  1. dead_red_eyes
    January 5th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    Wow, that's really neat!!

  2. Alex
    January 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pm

    Brrrr! Although, I believe this is probably much colder: Link

  3. onkar joshi
    January 6th, 2007 at 4:13 am

    this is not china. this is turkestan. china has illegally occupied turkestan just as it has occupied tibet.

    stop affirming china's aggressive territorial expansionist policy.

  4. Denita TwoDragons
    January 6th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    ??!! @ above

    Dude, we're just commenting on a picture. We didn't know.

    (Cool picture! But waaaaayyy too cold for me!)

    --TwoDragons

  5. Dai Lo
    January 7th, 2007 at 4:45 am

    @ Onkar Joshi, Turkestan (the two attempts at it) existed for about six years during the 20th century, so your assertions of China's illegal occupation of XinJiang is dubious at best. Tibet, on the other hand, is a separate debate.

  6. Chris Lamb
    January 7th, 2007 at 4:49 am

    "stop affirming china’s aggressive territorial expansionist policy."

    It's actually a common practice by westerners to use photographs of unique natural phenomena like the one above and subtly insert imperial propaganda

    FIGHT THE MACHINE!

    Nice pic

  7. raylo
    January 7th, 2007 at 5:33 am

    Actually the two guys on the bridge are the ones who had taken over the turkestan area, I think they flew in by mount in beta.

  8. What is Internet Explorer?
    January 7th, 2007 at 6:19 am

    What is that you were saying about subtle messages inserted into phrases?

    Anyway, what we are witnessing here is the waterfall's solitary resistance to the Chinese presence. Which is much better than the Palestinian waterfalls, which murder Israeli waterfalls.

  9. HA!
    January 7th, 2007 at 6:51 am

    Nowthatisfunny!

  10. rebuilder
    January 7th, 2007 at 7:19 am

    I doubt that swiss scene is colder, if it was, the water in the lake would have frozen over and would not have flown to ground with the wind to create such a layer of ice. For fast-flowing water such as would be expected in a waterfall to freeze, though, would require some pretty extreme conditions.

  11. why this is required
    January 7th, 2007 at 7:57 am

    Nice pic!!

    Hey, dud, what I know is the UN and other country respect that part is belonged to china except anywhere else. If you belive history, why don't you just claim that the whole univers are yours. since million years ago, only your ancestors were owning the world. and us should belong to Indian as well.

    But what we have is NOW.

  12. Philip
    January 7th, 2007 at 8:29 am

    I heard that Niagra falls has done this at least once. Could you imagine how cold it must feel when moving waterfalls freeze? I heard that the time or times when Niagra froze people walked out on the falls.

  13. Jewbag
    January 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am

    How the hell does moving water freeze...

  14. zwirko
    January 7th, 2007 at 10:49 am

    It freezes from the edges inwards ... slowly.

  15. TZ
    January 7th, 2007 at 10:59 am

    Nice pic.
    @why this is required : UN don't rule the world, you know. Giving credit to dictatures because they're giant ones and have a lot of economic power isn't what I would call courage.

  16. mahboobeh
    January 7th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    a very very beautiful icy waterfall

  17. Big Al
    January 7th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    Hey you should be very worried about this. The fact that this waterfall froze solid, proves that there is global warming.

  18. dan luke
    January 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Very beautiful. Amazing how ordered and symmetrical it is.

  19. youdon'tneedtoknowme
    January 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    How do my dictate?

  20. Roy S
    January 7th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    You know, there's a collective name for the parts of China which are ruled over by a totalitarian government against which the population has no recourse: that name is "China". Trying to sort out which individual territories have it worse than each other is kind of missing the forest for the trees.

  21. rob
    January 7th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    This is just amazing, almost worth the trip to China.

  22. Jim Lillicotch
    January 7th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    This is a very cool pic.

    I saw a frozen waterfall once in WV.
    It was very cold and snowy at the time.

  23. Kate James
    January 8th, 2007 at 4:01 am

    I visited Turufan and the Flaming Mountains in summer last year and it was incredibly hot - amazing extremes in temperature from that to this icy cold. These mountains are famous as the literal hills of fire that Monkey put out with a magic fan in 'Journey to the West' (the stories about the Monkey King that the TV shows Monkey and Saiyuki, and games/shows like Dragon Ball etc are based on). See http://www.lonelyplanet.com/journeys/feature/china_monkey1106.cfm for some pics I took there.

  24. Free Tibet
    January 8th, 2007 at 10:09 am
  25. paster of muppets
    January 8th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    It's like God's crusty bedsheets

  26. b333tttaaa
    January 8th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    What have blancmanges got to do with Cuba?

  27. combo bros film
    April 30th, 2007 at 7:34 am

    have a look at our mountain video

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  28. murphy riggan
    January 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    does anyone know where all the water goes that feeds the waterfall?

    driggan3@nc.rr.com


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