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Where is the Kunlun Cultural Tourism Zone?

Golmud City, a tourist guide, is located in the "cornucopia" Qaidam Basin where Wanbao gathers with its back to Kunlun Mountain, forming a Kunlun cultural tourist area centered on Golmud. This paper introduces that Kunlun Mountain rises from Pamirs, falls in the air and spans thousands of miles from east to west. Endless gray, towering snow peaks, glaciers, towering magic. Since ancient times, Kunlun Mountain has become a sacred place for people of all ethnic groups in China.

Kunlun Mountain has a prominent position as the "ancestor of Wanshan Mountain" in the cultural history of the Chinese nation. The ancients called Kunlun Mountain the "dragon ancestor vein" of China. Throughout the ages, how many sages, poets, poets, swordsmen and wanderers have turned their eyes to the west, sent their love to Kunlun and expressed their yearning and admiration for Kunlun with poems and songs.

Kunlun Mountain is 2500 kilometers long from east to west, with an average elevation of 5000 meters. Karakorum Mountain in the west is the natural dividing line between Tarim Basin and northern Tibet Plateau. East Kunlun Mountain consists of three mountain systems, namely Altun Mountain-Qilian Mountain in the north, Kunlun Mountain in the middle and Tanggula Mountain in the south. Kunlun Mountain is criss-crossed, magnificent and mysterious. Standing at the Kunlun Mountain Pass, you can have a panoramic view of the East and West Kunlun Mountains. Looking eastward, Yu Xufeng is unique in the silent snowfield, overwhelming the mountains and creating a unique natural landscape in the world of ice and snow.

Golmud Kunlun Cultural Tourist Area is a national 4A-level tourist area, with extremely rich tourist resources: Chaerhan Salt Lake and Zhang Wan Salt Bridge make people enter the dreamy salt world; Nachitai Spring is known as "iceberg nectar", and there is still a story about Princess Wencheng and her party resting here when they entered Tibet. Mongolian people living in Qaidam basin have gradually formed Mongolian customs with Qinghai characteristics during their hundreds of years of life in Qinghai Plateau. Ya Dan landform distributed in the northwest of Qaidam Basin is rare in the world.

Qinghai Golmud