How to get to Altun Mountain Nature Reserve?

Traffic Guide of Altun Mountain Nature Reserve: Due to the remote geographical location, poor road conditions and frequent occurrence of wild animals, it is necessary to obtain the consent of the local government and obtain necessary assistance before departure. Go to this area, preferably by car, and prepare enough materials.

Altun Mountain Nature Reserve is located in Ruoqiang County, the middle part of Altun Mountain at the border between Xinjiang and Tibet, with an altitude of about 4,000 meters and an area of about 45,000 square kilometers. It is the largest alpine nature reserve in China.

There are many endangered alpine precious animals in this reserve, including wild yaks, Tibetan antelopes, Tibetan wild donkeys and other large ungulates, and a large number of birds are clustered in various alpine lakes, with the number no less than that of Qinghai Lake.

The natural landscape here is also very beautiful, including the world's highest beach desert, Aqike Lake, an unfrozen lake in the interior of the plateau, Xinqing Peak in Guilin, Tage Ice Peak in Mu Zi with dense glaciers, and Leiqianquan, Yinyang Lake, devil valley and other scenic spots. Many Tibetan tantric spells carved on stones were also found in the mountains.

This area is located in a large depression basin on the northern slope of the middle section of East Kunlun, adjacent to Qaidam Basin in the east, Kunlun Mountain and Northern Tibet Plateau in the south, and shielded by arid and barren Aershan Mountain in the north. The terrain in this area is complex and diverse, which constitutes a unique landscape of the reserve. The species and distribution of plants fully show the characteristics of the transition from the Central Asian desert to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with more than 300 species of higher plants. There is a large area of alpine grassland, sparsely populated, and it is a paradise for many plateau wild animals to live and multiply. There are all kinds of rare birds and animals in the area, and there are 63 kinds of higher animals, among which wild yak, Tibetan wild donkey, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan gazelle, snow leopard, black-necked crane and Tibetan snow chicken are national key protected animals, and they are known as natural zoos with large population and high density. The establishment of this nature reserve is of great significance to the protection of typical plateau ecosystems and the research of biogeography, geology and meteorology.

Altun Mountain Nature Reserve is a closed alpine basin, where inland rivers flow to the center of the basin to form more than ten plateau lakes.

The largest of these is Ayacucu Lake, with an area of 565,438+00 square kilometers. Hundreds of miles southeast of the lake is the largest Kumkule desert on the plateau, with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, which is the highest desert in the world.

From the huge sand mountain, clear springs gushed out, showing the wonders of sand and lake connection, sand springs, deserts and swamps alternating. The sand spring in Shashan is very similar to the crescent spring in Dunhuang. The spring water gushes out and forms a Shahe.