Recommended scenic spots in northwest China

1, Qinghai Lake really can't tell which is the sky and which is the lake from a distance. Big sea and the sky is the same color. This is the largest lake in China. Go to Qinghai Lake to watch the sunrise, stand under the vast sky of the plateau, face a vast lake, and a golden light shines on the sky and the lake.

You can drive along the ring road on the south bank, Qinghai Lake and cattle and sheep in Tibet to cross the road. If it is July and August, you can see the unique summer rape sea in Qinghai. Qinghai Lake is really an interesting place.

2. Chaka Salt Lake

The sky in South America is in Bolivia, and the sky in China is here. Chaka Salt Lake is a brine lake with solid and liquid coexistence, embedded in snow-capped mountains and grasslands, rather than Gobi desert. The lake is calm and waveless, reflecting the sky like a mirror. You can take a small train to go deep into the lake for sightseeing, and you can see colorful and growing salt flowers through the clear lake.

Before and after sunrise and sunset, Chaka Salt Lake is the most beautiful time, surrounded by colorful clouds, and reflected by sunrise or sunset. Before nine o'clock in the morning and after five o'clock in the afternoon, there were too many tourists on the lake, and natural light and shadow rippled in the lake. This is what the sky looks like.

3. Zhuo'er Mountain

The oil-painting mountain is Zhuo'er Mountain formed by Danxia landform. There are red sandstone in the cracks in the mountain. From the yellow rape flowers at the foot of the mountain and the grassland on the mountainside to the red Danxia on the ridge, Zhuo'er Mountain is very rich in colors.

Seen from the top of the Zall Mountain, the view is very wide. Opposite the mountain is Niuxin Mountain, which offers a panoramic view of the four seasons. Backed by the rolling Qilian Mountains. The Babao River at the foot of the mountain surrounds Qilian County like a white Hada.

4. Dachaidan Emerald Lake

Although not as famous as Chaka Salt Lake, the scenery here is no less than Chaka. The plateau salt lake with an altitude of more than 3000 meters is embedded in the snowy plateau of Dachaidan. There are no tourists with tea cards, and the photos of Jade Lake in Dachaidan are better.

Salt ponds with different shapes and rich colors are scattered all over Chaidan Lake, which is really like pouring pearls, large and small, into a plate of jade. The green lake makes people feel comfortable and quiet, and the photos taken here have a sense of independence.

5. Qilian Mountain Grassland

Qilian Mountain is a natural barrier between northern Qinghai and Gansu, which was called "North Gate of Qinghai" in ancient times. There are snow-capped mountains and grasslands everywhere. It is an area with well-preserved original ecology and is known as one of the six most beautiful grasslands in China. Valley depression, with an average elevation of more than 3000 meters; The mountains in Qilian Mountain are all above 4000 to 5000 meters. The undulating grassland is like a three-dimensional green wave.

6. Cocoa beans

From Tanggula Mountain to Kunlun Mountain, this road is nearly 500 kilometers, which is the Hoh Xil area. Along the way, there are gently undulating low mountains and high-altitude hills. There are almost no people on the road except the trucks coming and going on the Qinghai-Tibet line. There are monuments and statues of Sonam Street in the Pass Square of Kunlun Mountain, not far below is the tomb of the martyrs, and there is a Sonam Street Protection Station at the foot of the mountain.

The vast land stretches far away, and the endless wasteland is full of Tibetan wild donkeys and wild yaks. Above 4600 meters above sea level, it is dry and cold, with thin air and fragile ecology. It is a "forbidden area for human life".

Tibetan antelopes appear on the roadside from time to time, in groups of three or five. They are not afraid of people, can't disturb people, and can only watch from a distance.

7. Ta 'er Temple 8. Menyuan rape field

Menyuan is the largest small rape planting area in the north, with an area comparable to that of Luoping, Yunnan, stretching for tens of kilometers. The flowering period of rape here is not in spring, but in summer. Driving in the rape field of Menyuan, the whole rape field is like a golden ocean, with an overwhelming northwest spirit against the blue sky and white clouds and snow-capped mountains on the plateau.

9. Ya Dan on the Uster River

The largest Ya Dan Group in China is located in Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, and the only water Ya Dan in China is among them. From the air, Ya Dan's formations are all in one direction, and there is a feeling that the fleet is ready to go. The mountain torrents of Nallinger River flow to this large area, forming this rare water Ya Dan.

Ya Dan Oberlian 10

Ya Dan Group, the largest in China, is a part of Ya Dan Group in Qaidam Basin. Strange ridges stand on the Gobi desert, which is very abrupt in the gentle desert. Uneven Ya Dan is arranged on the mountain, just like a rugged alien planet. Like most Ya Dan landforms in China, there is also an alias of "ghost town".