The best recommended Qinghai travel guide routes in 2020

Qinghai is a pure and beautiful place of purification, where you can feel the richest breath of life and charm of cultural traditions. Here you will witness countless miracles and vigorous vitality, and every moment will be It is inspiring and inspiring, and makes you feel at peace in your heart. Qinghai has many beautiful scenery and rich travel routes. Here is a list of the best travel routes recommended for your reference. The best itinerary in Qinghai

Day 1: Kumbum Monastery - Laji Mountain - Qinghai Lake - Suchaka Town

Day 2: Chaka Salt Lake (Sky Land) - Dachaidan Emerald Lake - Stay at Dachaidan

Day 3: Yadan Landform (Devil City) - The most beautiful road in no man's land - Yangguan ruins or oil town - Stay in Dunhuang

Day 4: Mogao Grottoes - Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring - Dunhuang Night Market (self-driving project) - Stay in Dunhuang

Day 5: Guazhou Service Area (A place to eat melons and sell dried fruits for free) - Jiayuguan - Zhangye Colorful Danxia - Stay in Zhangye

Day 6: Qilian Mountain Grassland - Gangshika Snow Mountain - Menyuan - Return Xining (almost on the road this day) Qinghai travel guide

Sometimes we can’t understand why a person goes to a place or a scenic spot repeatedly, even though he has seen it many times, he still can’t stop. , but it is like boiled water, bland and tasteless, but I can't quit it or forget it. This is how I am about Qinghai. I love this land.

Second trip to Qinghai in 2020

My second trip to Qinghai. Many friends said that you chose the wrong time. It should be the best in July and August, but I chose the wrong time. I chose this time, in Qinghai at this time, the grass is not green, the flowers are not blooming, the ice and snow have not yet melted, but it is still the Qinghai I love.

I saw Qinghai in the peak season last time, but I still want to come many times to see the four seasons in Qinghai. Some people say that Qinghai only has two seasons: winter and summer, but in my heart, every change is like a dazzling scene. A season is as magical as a season. Look at the withered yellow grassland all over the mountains. Even in June, it is still covered with snow. However, in July, it can still catch up with the footsteps of spring and summer, revealing the true green color of the grassland.

Snow Mountain

Flying from Zhengzhou to Xining, I carried a change of clothes, a notebook, a camera, two lenses (telephoto and wide-angle), and various other Filters, timed shutter release cables, and spare batteries are not necessarily needed, but I am afraid of missing the fleeting scenery.

Aerial view from the plane flying from Zhengzhou to Xining

This trip to the Qinghai-Gansu Loop is an unknown journey. I signed up for a carpooling quota online and then flew directly to Xining , lying in the hotel in Xining, I am thinking about who my partners will be tomorrow?

Will they be easy to get along with, how old are they, will there be a deep generation gap between us? Or even if they are all lovers, would it be awkward for me to be alone? I thought a lot, but it was really me who thought too much. Let everything take its course, and as it comes, let it be.

At 8 o'clock in the morning on May 28, 2020, the driver drove a business car to pick me up. In the end, there were 5 tourists from all over the country and a local driver in the car. The teammates were a young man from Shaanxi in their twenties, a couple from Yantai, Shandong, and an older aunt. The aunt seemed to be in very good health and spirit. She should be around 50 years old, but later When I shared a room with my aunt, I learned that she was already 65 years old. Sure enough, exercise is the foundation of life. At this point, the Qinggan Loop trip officially began.

The itinerary is planned in advance. Of course, if everyone agrees, the itinerary can also be changed. The driver also became a member of our team who shared food and accommodation for 6 days, and could meet almost all our requirements. , this is simply great.

The first stop of the trip - Kumbum Monastery, one of the six major Tibetan Buddhist temples in China, Qinghai Province's leading scenic spot and key cultural relics protection unit, and also the most popular scenic spot in Qinghai. You may say that there is nothing good about a temple, but when you walk in, your feelings will be different. I knew very little about it when I went to Taal, but I still felt the sacredness of the religion. From then on, I became more familiar with Chinese Buddhist culture. With an extra sense of respect, I learned more about the history of Kumbum Monastery after I came back.

The pagoda in Kumbum Temple was built in 1379. There was a pagoda first and then a temple, hence the name Kumbum Temple. The pagoda here has experienced the transformation of various treasure decorations. The current pagoda of Kumbum Temple is "Gold is covered with silver, silver is covered with wood, wood is covered with stone, and stone is covered with tree." Its most recent change was in 2012 when the altar and believers re-decorated it with 860 kilograms of gold.

In addition to its sanctity and solemnity, Kumbum Monastery also has the maternal nature of reproducing and saving all living beings. There is a Bodhi tree in Kumbum Monastery. The inside and outside of the courtyard are connected. It is said that the Bodhi tree in the courtyard is a mother tree, and the one outside the courtyard is As a child tree, the connected roots and stems represent the connection between mother and child, and the leaves of the Bodhi tree have also become a symbol of auspiciousness. If you pick up the fallen leaves of the Bodhi tree, it means good luck, so every leaf that falls here will be picked up immediately. rise.

The first thing that catches your eye when entering Kumbum Monastery is the Eight Treasures Ruyi Pagoda, which represents the eight great merits of Buddha Sakyamuni from his birth to his nirvana. The people walking clockwise around the outside of the Pagoda are the eternal attraction here. Non-stop views.

Touch the pattern of the prayer wheel and watch it keep turning. All the cycles, all the cause and effect, come and go, as if the reincarnations of the past and present are all turning in this moment.

In Kumbum Monastery, I walked quietly into the main hall, and the sound of chanting sutras could not be heard. I turned around and saw the monks on both sides kneeling and worshiping, with their five bodies touching the ground. I was afraid of the earthly atmosphere in my body. The holiness here was polluted, and I retreated gently. Kumbum Monastery is a place that can cure impetuousness. Religion is always so mysterious and so holy.

Pilgrimage is a kind of faith and a kind of sustenance. This is not Tibet. There are no thousands of kilometers of pilgrimage roads, but there is no shortage of devout believers. It is said that as soon as they start to kneel down, they must kowtow 100,000 times. Only in this way can the merits be considered complete, just like farmers farming, the sun rises. And work, rest after sunset, and start over and over again. How much devout faith is required to do this. At this point, I have more respect for Buddhist culture.

“Life is like a journey, you don’t care about the destination, what you care about is the scenery along the way and the mood of seeing the scenery.” So the most beautiful scenery is always on the road. After leaving Kumbum Monastery and heading west over the 4,200-meter Laji Mountain, as far as the eye can see, the sky is clear and clear. Although there are no red flowers and willows, there is white snow, the wind is beautiful, and the sun is beautiful. I have seen rapeseed flowers in full bloom. Qinghai is so beautiful, but this is the first time I have traveled among the snow-capped mountains. It feels like I am on a cold winter glacier. It is hard to imagine that this is the scenery in June, but "it" stands impressively on both sides of the road.

Laji Mountain 3800 meters

Driving in the endless mountains and rivers, with only cattle and sheep all over the mountains and fields for company, we had lunch in a roadside herdsman’s yurt, although it was cold outside It's overwhelming, but the herdsmen's yurt is steaming with steam, and the fire in the stove is bright. Here you can drink a bowl of butter tea, eat a piece of highland barley cake, and have a bowl of the herdsmen's home-brewed yogurt. The boss enthusiastically brings out Let us taste the home-made tsampa and beef jerky. Most people are really not used to drinking butter tea, but drinking a bowl when you first arrive at a high altitude area can help you better adapt to the environment here.

Herdsmen’s home-made yogurt

The three-day-old lamb of the herdsmen’s family successfully attracted our attention. Its color is like a sika deer, very beautiful, and the fur on its body is touching. It is also very soft in the hand. Because it is too young to follow the sheep up the mountain, it can only be fed milk at home. After drinking the milk, the expression on its face reveals satisfaction.

Farewell to the herdsmen and to this encounter that may only occur once in the journey of life, we continue to move along the snow-capped mountains, climbing over mountains and ridges, for the dream of traveling in our hearts.

The altitude of the top of Laji Mountain is 4188 meters. This is also the highest mountain pass to Qinghai Lake. I didn’t see anything special when I passed here last time, but this time it changed my understanding of Laji Mountain. You know, there are no delicate and colorful colors here, only winding mountain roads and majestic snow-capped mountains.

The top of Laji Mountain is 4188 meters

Everyone has a beautiful Qinghai and a beautiful Qinghai Lake in their hearts. It is a dream like a star, sacred and peaceful. . I have been to many islands, seen many seas, and looked at many skies, but the sky over Qinghai Lake has a clarity I have never seen in a city, and the lake has a calmness never seen in rivers.

It is said that there is a bird island on this calm Qinghai Lake. The birds on the island migrate north and south according to the weather. They rarely appear at the lakeside where there are many tourists. But this year is different. There are seagulls on the lakeside. They are in groups, floating up and down with the waves of the lake, not afraid of tourists at all, maybe they are used to tourists feeding them.

They also fly high from time to time, with heroic looks. The snow-capped mountains in the distance, the white clouds nearby, and the blue lake. Maybe they also have pursuits, but their soaring is exactly my dream, my pursuit, and my pursuit. The yearning for freedom.

In this busy world, from birth to old age, we are busy growing up, busy studying, busy working, busy taking care of our families...how much time do we really have for ourselves? ?

Maybe there are none of these. Countless people have been pursuing freedom and envy the kind of life where they can leave at any time. The freedom I want is not to leave when I want to, but to stop when I want to. Stop, just like I love Qinghai, I want to stop here, I want to stop here, but my journey never stops or stops, the same is true in life, time flies, fleeting, cannot stop, nor can I stop. Start over.

I was blowing the wind of Qinghai Lake, leaning against the vast snow-capped mountains, listening to the sound of seagulls, looking up at the boundless blue sky, prayer flags flying in the wind, taking away my endless yearning for freedom, and I have a deep desire for the unknown journey without leaving.

I walked into Qinghai Lake and was fascinated by the water here. The blue tide made me feel relaxed and happy. In the afternoon, the lake water was like waves of wheat. It was simply beautiful.