This route will help you travel around Hoh Xil.

1. Xining → Huangyuan Canyon → Riyue Mountain → Daotang River → * * * County → maduo county.

along the way, you can see the natural scenery of Sun Moon Mountain, also known as "Chiling", which is the dividing line between agriculture and animal husbandry areas in Qinghai Province. You can also see an inverted river, which is called "inverted river" because of the crustal movement and the high uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

2. maduo → zhaling lake → eling lake → tauren monument.

Take a bus from Maduo to Niutoubei at the source of the Yellow River, pass through Zhaling Lake and Eling Lake, and then return to maduo county. The whole day's journey is about 2 kilometers, and the road conditions at the head of the Yellow River are poor. Zhaling Lake covers an area of 524 square kilometers, with a maximum water depth of 13.1 meters and an average water depth of 8 meters, with a water storage capacity of 3-4 billion cubic meters. The deepest point is distributed on the north bank, and the underwater terrain is asymmetric, with deep in the north and shallow in the south. Ering Lake covers an area of 68 square kilometers, with a maximum water depth of 3.7 meters and an average water depth of 2 meters, with a water storage capacity of 1-12 billion cubic meters. The Niutoubei at the head of the Yellow River is located on the top of Cuowagaze Mountain at an altitude of 4,61 meters between the two lakes of Eling Lake and Zhaling Lake.

3. Maduo → bayan har → Tramalai.

Take a bus from Maduo to Qumalai, passing through bayan har, with the highest elevation of 51 meters. The road conditions are good and you can enjoy the natural scenery along the way. Bayan har is a part of the east extension of Kunlun Mountain, which is located in the south of central Qinghai Province. It means "blue-black mountain" in Mongolian, and it is connected to the Hoh Xil Mountain in the west, Qiongxia Mountain and Minshan Mountain in the east. This is the watershed between the source of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River basin. The Yuegu Zonglie at the northern foot is the source of the Yellow River, and the southern foot is the source of the Yangtze River.

4. Qumalai → Qumahe → Wudaoliang Protection Station.

Take a bus from Qumalai to the unfrozen spring, and pass through Qumahe Township on the way to enjoy the natural scenery and wildlife along the way. There are abundant wild animal and plant resources near Wudaoliang Protection Station in Hoh Xil, with more than 29 species of animals, accounting for one sixth of the country's total, and more than 11 species of birds, accounting for one quarter of the country's total. Along the way, you can see the mighty wild yak, the graceful Tibetan wild donkey, the lovely Himalayan marmot, the docile Tibetan antelope, the giant owl and the spotted goose. Daoliang Protection Station is one of the four protection stations in Hoh Xil Nature Reserve. It has been moved to 2997 kilometers, which is the throat of entering and leaving the reserve. It is 468 meters above sea level and 256 kilometers away from Golmud City.

5. Wudaoliang Protection Station → Kusai Lake Cable in the hinterland of Hoh Xil → Nandajie Protection Station.

The mountain patrol team from Wudaoliang Protection Station in Hoh Xil will take a bus to enter Kusai Lake in Hoh Xil Protection Area, have a picnic at noon, watch the wild animals on the plateau, such as Tibetan antelope, wild yak and Tibetan wild donkey, and feel the scene of catching poachers with the mountain patrol team. Kusai Lake is the first lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway to the core area of Hoh Xil, which is the salt lake with the lowest altitude, with an altitude of 4,44 meters. Going west, we successively passed Lake Kusai, Zhuonaihu Tibetan Antelope Aggregation and Lake Le Xie Wu Dan, which covers an area of over 2 square kilometers.

6. Golmud → Dulan Ancient Tombs → Chaka Salt Lake.

Take a bus from Golmud to Chaka, pass through Qaidam Basin, arrive at Chaka and visit Chaka Salt Lake.

7. Chaka Salt Lake → Qinghai Lake → Jinyintan → Xining.

Take a bus from Chaka and return to Xining. On the way, visit Qinghai Lake and Jinyintan Grassland and arrive in Xining.