This topic you can be considered to ask the right person, some time ago I happened to go to Qinghai travel has done a detailed strategy. Personally, I think it's worthwhile to go to Qinghai to play the niche treasure attraction is the salt lake. Here I will share my experience of going to Charkhan Salt Lake in detail, I hope to be able to help you.
Charkhan Salt LakeAddress: Charkhan Town, Golmud City, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
When it comes to the "Land of the Sky", I'm afraid that Charkhan Salt Lake is the only place that comes to mind, but in fact, there's a salt lake that has a much more beautiful landscape. It is 56 times the size of the Chaka Salt Lake, picturesque but little known, few people to! It is - Charkhan Salt Lake. Salt Lake around the very vast, boundless desert, flat terrain, but formed a very peculiar scenery. The entire surface of the lake, as if a just plowed fertile soil, like fish scales, but also like a piece of shell. It's a great place for sightseeing and taking photos!
The Charkhan Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in China and the second largest in the world. It is the world's most valuable lake, the lake salt resources in the total reserves of more than 50 billion tons, for the world's population of 6 billion people to eat for 1000 years. Charkhan Salt Lake is 50 kilometers from Golmud, the lake's thick salt cover is very hard, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Golmud-Dunhuang highway section of the highway through here, is a floating in the brine on the "10,000-foot Salt Bridge", the lake's salt flowers, also known as the salt stalactites, very beautiful.
1, basic information
(1) Opening hours:
April 1-June 30: 8:30-18:30
July 1-October 31: 8:00-20:00
(1) Opening hours:
The lake is the first of its kind in China. Strong>(2) Ticket Price:Free
(3) Recommended Season:July-September
(4) Recommended Playing Time:2-3 hours
2, Transportation Directions
Auto:
You can take the factory commuter bus to the salt field at the Everest Building on the east side of Kunlun Square in Golmud City, the vehicle is full on the go, there is no fixed time for the bus to depart, generally during the day are available, about every 1 hour, the fare is 15-20 yuan.
Take a taxi:
You can take a taxi in the downtown area of Golmud, about 150 yuan round trip, and can be sent directly to the Salt Lake Museum.
Train:
There is also a train from Golmud to Charkhan, which runs every morning at 9:00 a.m. The fare is about 8.5 yuan, but the Charkhan Railway Station is a little farther away from the Salt Lake, so it is not as convenient as the shuttle buses and taxis.
3, attractions features
Concealed between the towering Kunlun Mountains and Qilian Mountains, Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, "Treasure Bowl" reputation at home and abroad, and the heart of the Qaidam Basin is the famous Charkhan. Charkhan Salt Lake is one of the largest natural salt lakes in the world. It is rich in surprising salt resources and up to 32 kilometers of the strange "ten thousand feet of salt bridge" scenery, so that its name resounded for more than half a century. Salt Lake is located in the Gobi sea, a total area of 5856 square kilometers, from a distance, it looks like a sea.
Salt Flower Wonders
Charkhan Salt Lake, all green plants are difficult to grow, but has bred a crystal like jade, changing the magical salt flowers, especially recommended that we come here to see the shape of the salt flowers, the salt flowers from afar, like a master crafted works of art, especially beautiful and spectacular!
Salt flower is the salt lake salt crystallization formed when the beautiful shape of the crystals called. Brine in the process of crystallization due to different concentrations, different lengths of time, compositional differences and other reasons, the formation of a ghostly general salt flower. Here, the salt flower or shaped like pearls, coral, or like pavilions, or like birds and animals, a clump, a piece, a cluster in the salt lake, the salt lake decorated with the beauty of the fairyland. Every year to watch the salt flower spectacle of domestic and foreign tourists up to tens of thousands of people.
Wanzhang Salt Bridge
Entering the Charkhan Salt Lake, in a thick layer of salt cover, there is a most salty salt road. The highway is like a bridge floating in the brine above the salt bridge is 32 kilometers long, across the entire salt lake, known as "ten thousand feet of salt bridge".
Wanzhan Salt Bridge is a section of the Golmud to Dunhuang from Dabusun Lake through the highway, 15-18 meters thick salt cover constitutes a natural salt bridge, 32 kilometers long, the system can be up to 10,000 zhang, so it is called "10,000 zhang Salt Bridge". "Bridge" on the road smooth and flat, mountain and lake reflecting the scenery is very beautiful, can be called "unparalleled". Jade belt like salt bridge (road), next to no guardrail, no piers, and no running water. The entire road surface smooth and clean, straight, salt bridge (road) will be split into two halves from the middle of the salt lake, so that people marveled at, had to submit to the wisdom and intelligence of mankind!
Tips
In principle, the salt factory only allows vehicles with visiting documents to be registered to enter, so it is best to check if you can drive into the factory when chartering a car in Golmud, or you may be charged by the security guards at the entrance of the so-called "tickets".