What tourist attractions are there along the way from Xining to Lhasa?

Starting from Xining, Huangyuan County, Tangjiaer Ancient City, Sun Moon Mountain, Qinghai Lake, Bird Island of Qinghai Lake, Chaka Salt Lake, Delingha's Lover Lake (also known as Wallet Lake), Crook Lake and Tuo Su Hu, Dachaidan Lake, Xiaochaidan Lake, Ghost Town, Zhang Wan Salt Bridge, Chaerhan Salt Lake, Kunlun Shenquan, Kunlun Mountain Pass, Hoh Xil and so on.

Chaerhan Salt Lake is a salt lake in the west of Qinghai Province, China, with the same name as Chaka Salt Lake. It is located in the south of Qaidam Basin, which spans Golmud City and dulan county. It consists of salt ponds such as Dabson Lake, South Hobson, North Hobson and Sene, with a total area of 5,856 square kilometers. Many inland rivers such as Golmud River and Qaidam River flow into the lake. Due to the continuous evaporation of water, a hard salt layer has formed on the salt lake. Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway are directly built on salt covers. Chaerhan Salt Lake is rich in inorganic salts such as sodium chloride, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride, with a total reserve of over 2 billion tons. It is one of the mining bases in China. There is a famous salt bridge.

All the green plants in Chaerhan Salt Lake are difficult to grow, but they breed crystal clear and varied magic salt flowers. Salt flower is the name of beautiful crystal formed when salt is crystallized in salt lake. In the crystallization process of brine, various forms of salt flowers are formed due to different concentrations, different durations and different components. The salt flowers here are shaped like pearl corals, or pavilions, or like birds and beasts, standing in clusters in the salt lake, decorating the salt lake like a fairyland. Tens of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists come to see the wonders of salt flowers every year.

"Chaerhan" is Mongolian, which means "salt ze". Salt Lake is located in Gobi Desert, with hot and dry climate, long sunshine time and much higher water evaporation than precipitation. Due to long-term exposure to wind and sun, the lake has formed a high concentration of brine, which gradually crystallized into salt particles, and the lake panel has formed a thick salt layer, which is extremely hard. Incredibly, there is a 32-kilometer-long road and railway running through the salt lake, which is a "salt bridge" floating on the brine. Highway and railway is a section of Golmud-Dunhuang Highway and Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

Chaerhan Salt Lake _ Baidu Encyclopedia