Qinghai Lake Dunhuang Great Circuit

9 days of balanced driving, relaxation, comfortable journey

The average daily drive is not long, the trip is not in a hurry, relaxation, stopping as you go

Optimization of transportation, a line through the two provinces, do not take a backtrack

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Unique, Localized experience

Riding around the highlights of Qinghai Lake

The best way to pay tribute to Qinghai Lake is to ride around the lake

Along the highlights of the Qinghai Lake International Bicycle Touring Circuit

Roam around Qinghai Lake in the breeze and experience the magnificent beauty of Qinghai Lake

10-21 people small group departure, pay more attention to the experience

Selected lodging along the way, sleep in the scenery

Fewer people, mountains, lakes, mirrors,

And the mirror effect is better and more conducive to the portrait shooting;

Live in the scenery, a set of Chaka's sunrise, sunset, the starry sky.

Stay at the Chaka Sky One scenic spot

Inside the parent-child ranch, floating experience museum, starry sky dock, salt lake wetland, sinking water trestle, eyeball agate plaza, the star and moon mirror platform, interpretation center, etc.

All-round immersive experience of the dream of the lake light mood

City, medium and high end hotels, the core scenic area hotel

Qinghai Lake

The car out of Xining driving on the highway, from the car window, the green asphalt road can be seen far away from the edge of the mountain, so that people feel that the end of the mountain is the end of the road.

Into the Qinghai Lake basin, we see from time to time herdsmen riding horses, shepherds driving flocks of sheep swimming in the lake, like clouds floating in the blue sky.

In front of the vastness of Qinghai Lake, the distant snow-capped mountains like white clouds, floating in the water and sky in the distance.

We drove along the lake, ran for more than an hour, but still did not run out of the blue embrace of Qinghai Lake. Qinghai Lake looks so blue from afar, and when I approached her, the blue color disappeared again, and she became colorless and transparent, as if distilled water as pure.

The beauty of Qinghai Lake in her vastness, her deep blue, her changing seasons, her birds and flowers, as well as her more than three hundred kilometers around the lake changing scenery. Herds of cattle and sheep, green fields, yellow flowers, desert oasis can be seen here.

Every year, Qinghai Lake holds an international race for bicycles around the lake. Come to Qinghai Lake, of course, to experience the fun of a ride. Almost to the Erlangjian scenic area, we changed to the bike in the essence of the section of the greenway slowly riding, where there are large rapeseed flowers blooming in the lake.

Riding around the lake of Qinghai Lake in the essence of the section

Chaka Salt Lake

I always remember one of the items in the wish list: to Chaka Salt Lake

Qinghai has a lot of people will be lost in the sky, this place is not developed before, no one thought of China's own on the "Bolivia", "the" like "the".

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The water and the sky mirror lake in our footsteps inadvertently ripples and then calm down. In order to spend more time, we stayed close to the hotel in Chaka town, just to see the view of the lake reflected in the evening sun.

Chaka Salt Lake during the day

Chaka Salt Lake at sunset

Dongtai Ginel Lake

Deeper into the Qaidam Basin, through a patchwork of aridity and barrenness, a lake resembling the Maldives was waiting.

Before arriving, it has been in the phone marveled at the beauty of this unreal wonderland: clear Tiffany blue, light-colored salt road, two by two, just a glance, eyes fell into the comfort zone.

And when we really stood in front of this Dongtai Ginel Lake, we realized that the unreal beauty is really there.

The sun is just right under the blue sky, stepping on the milky white salt road, deep and shallow, walking in the blue lake, people have long forgotten that it is in the Northwest, more like a romantic seaside.

This distant similarity, behind the natural terroir of this lake favor, Qaidam Basin saline and alkaline land is widely spread, in the hand of time to build, Dongtai Ginaier Lake into a large number of salt lakes, the absolute clear and shock of that.

Yardang on the Water

Yardang landforms have been found in the world, the vast majority of which exist in the extremely arid region, but the Usut Yardang Geopark in the Qaidam Devil City in the desert out of nowhere in a piece of the "ocean".

A lonely island stands above the lake, the ghostly sand dunes reflected in the sparkling, even if the locals are also after many years to know that there is this stunning scenery around.

Mo Gao Ku

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes

There are only four cultures in the world that have a long history, a wide geographic area, and a self-contained system of far-reaching influence: China, India, Greece, and Islam, and there is no fifth;

And there is only one place where these four cultural systems converge, and that is Dunhuang and Xinjiang in China, and there is no second one.

- Ji Xianlin

In this world, if there are some places you are destined to regret for the rest of your life if you don't go there, Dunhuang should be one of them.

As the center and transit point for East-West trade, history says Dunhuang was "a metropolis where the Chinese and the Rongs met", where Western merchants and Chinese merchants traded silk and porcelain from the Central Plains, treasures from the West, and camels and horses from the North, as well as local grains.

At the same time, since the Han Dynasty, since the smooth flow of transportation between the Middle East and the West, the culture of the Central Plains continued to spread to Dunhuang, where it took deep root. Dunhuang, which is connected to the western region, accepted the Buddhist culture that originated in India earlier.

As the Oriental Museum of World Art, China's most important one of the world's cultural heritage, Mogao Grottoes, treasured 735 caves, more than 2,400 bodies of colorful sculptures, more than 45,000 square meters of mural paintings, each one, each one is a treasure of human civilization.

All year round, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are so hot that you need to book a month in advance, and even hard to find a ticket. In the late fall, we went to the wrong peak, in which to savor the humanistic feast of the Mogao Caves.

Mingsha Mountain

The gentle camel, carrying us in the desert, as far as the eye can see, sandy mountains, sunshine, the blue sky, the sky is high and clouds, a magnificent scene. Heaven and earth can only hear the sound of camel bells jingle - jingle ... "Look, the crescent moon spring", the camel team absolute front partner exclaimed, "No, it is the sky fell into the dunes of the half-curved blue moon"

Walking in the soft delicate desert, experience the fun of sandboarding, then the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand, the sand and the sand.

Walking on the soft and delicate desert, experience the fun of sandboarding, and then see how the footprints left behind after walking and playing in a gust of wind, changing the new texture.

Crescent Spring, shaped like a curved moon, the spring is melted in the sand color from a distance, close to see the bottom of the clear, sandy mountain embrace, so peaceful, the sky color one, the magnificence of the color of the not lack of soft beauty.

Sitting on the ridge on the east side of the Mingsha Mountain, quietly waiting for the sun to set, see the sun and moon reflecting the moment, accompanied by the sound of the sound of the sofa out of the bamboo pipes, life is more wonderful than this moment?

Xianmi National Forest Park

Here is the vast area of Qinghai Province, the forest area, the arrival of fall, fruit shake the gold, dyed forests, the strange highland climate brewed here rich and gorgeous landscape.

In the fall, thin clouds roll, fine rain like silk, steep peaks were covered by rain and fog, far away, the sea of clouds in the occasional peaks silhouette, the slopes of the mountains, lush forests, villages all over the wilderness golden yellow through the joy of harvest.

ZHANG YE

Zhangye seven-color Danxia / Dafu Temple

For Zhangye Danxia landform, many people are no stranger. The endless red mountains in Zhang Yimou's "Three Shots" are the Zhangye Danxia landform.

Zhangye colorful Danxia

As expressed in words, there are only two words to describe: shock. In a radius of more than 10 square kilometers, Zhangye Danxia landform with her layers of interlaced lines, colorful hues, brilliant and magnificent pictures, shape a colorful fairy tale world.

Ice Gully Danxia

Ice Gully Danxia is a typical Danxia landform in arid areas of China, and also one of the most peculiar Danxia landforms.

As an ancient geological relics, the distribution of Danxia cliffs, stone walls, stone pillars, peaks, hills and other thousands of landforms, continuous, sharp and upright, magnificent. Some people even describe it as "color like Wodan, brilliant as bright Xia".

"Petroleum Town"

Petroleum Town is Akesai Petroleum Town, which used to be the old county town of Akesai in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, but was later abolished for unknown reasons. Now the town has turned from a bustling and prosperous town into a broken walled and uninhabited town, which also makes the traces left by human existence have been integrated with nature. That's where the oil town in The Nine Layers comes in.

The car trapped in the land inside the movie was designed for the filming of The Nine Layers of the Devil's Tower, and the residential area where the killers, played by Wu Zhenyu and Yu Nan, first arrived in the desert in the movie is also this place.

Jiayuguan Pass

"The majestic Great Wall of China starts from Shanhaiguan in the east and ends at Jiayuguan Pass in the west." It is said that God creates all things and distributes wealth to people, and God favors Jiayuguan by distributing its absolutely majestic mountains, spectacular glaciers, wild deserts, purely beautiful lakes, as well as deep and alluring forests and canyons, and magical and majestic passes. Thousands of years have passed, and there are more wonders in this God-given beautiful land.

Jiayuguan Pass

Hiking, biking, mountaineering, traveling

One day for another

There is always an urge to wake you up to set off

I believe that you will always set off

At the moment, we are in different cities

But the heart of the heart is all in the direction of the Qinghai Lake