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Tourist attractions on the way back to Xi'an from Chaka Salt Lake

1. The Yellow River Mother Statue is located in the middle section of Binhe Road on the south bank of the Yellow River in Lanzhou City and on the north side of Xiaoxihu Park. It is the most beautiful sculpture among the many sculptures in the country that express the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation. . It has high artistic value and won the Excellence Award in the first national urban sculpture plan competition.

2. Bingsi Grottoes are located in a small rock mountain 35 kilometers southwest of Yongjing County, Linxia. Bingling Temple was originally named Fangshu Cave. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Tibetan word "One Hundred Thousand Buddhas" was adopted and the name Bingling Temple or Bingling Temple was given. The grottoes are divided into three parts: Upper Temple, Donggou and Lower Temple, which are distributed on the red sandstone on both sides of Dasigou. There are layers of caves, and the plank road twists and turns upward. Bingling Temple is the most typical stone statue, relief pagoda and Tantric mural art. It is also known as the three major grottoes in Gansu along with Mogao Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes.

3. Haiyan Triangular City ruins are located on the golden and silver beach with abundant water and grass in the northeast of Qinghai Lake in Haiyan County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. It is 90 kilometers away from Xining City. It is locally called Triangular City. Haiyan Triangular City is 650 meters long from east to west and 600 meters wide from north to south. The remaining height of the city wall is 4 meters, and the four gates can still be vaguely visible.

4. Riyue Mountain is located in the southwest of Huangyuan County, Xining City, Qinghai Province and the southeast of Qinghai Lake. Riyue Mountain is a very important dividing line in China's natural geography. It is the junction of Huangyuan, *** and two counties. It is the link between China's outflow area and inflow area, monsoon area and non-monsoon area, Loess Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet. Plateau dividing line.