Qinghai self-guided tour has checked in for you
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📍: Hoh Xil
🚘: Driving route: Golmud - Kunlun Holy Spring - Yuzhu Peak - Kunlun Mountain Pass - Sonandajie Conservation Station, return.
🏞️: High-altitude uninhabited area, pristine nature reserve, World Natural Heritage site. Here you can find towering snow-capped mountains, majestic glaciers, tranquil lakes; it's a paradise for wildlife, with Tibetan antelopes, black-necked cranes, vultures, wild yaks, Tibetan wild donkeys, etc.
Also known as: The Forbidden Zone of Life.
🐳: Poor road conditions (requires vehicle passability and power), no supplies (bring your own food), poor signal (download offline maps), high altitude with lack of oxygen and high UV radiation (prepare for cold, sun protection, and altitude sickness), unpredictable weather, respect the dangers! Littering is strictly prohibited!
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Devil's Eye
📍: Mangya City, Haixi Prefecture
🚘: Navigate to the Devil's Eye to reach.
🏞️: In the desolate western end of the Qaidam Basin, the never-ending spring water gushes out from the earth, the spring water is a bright yellow-red color, shaped like an eye, as if embedded in the desolate land like the eye of a devil. The tumbling spring water spreads to the surrounding land, accumulating over time, etching the surrounding land into another appearance, indescribably magnificent and colorful, it will always gaze quietly into the deep sky.
🐳: Average road conditions (requires vehicle passability and power), essential to have a drone (no effect without aerial photography)!
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Devil's City
📍: Lenghu Town, Mangya City, Haixi Prefecture
🚘: Navigate to the Yadan Landform Group in the Ejin Banner Scenic Area, first to the Mars Camp, and then 500 yuan per vehicle for entry to the scenic area.
🏞️: Ejin Banner, a Yadan landform group, where you can see thousands of miles of rolling yellow sand and fierce westerly winds, a sense of loneliness and insignificance that has nowhere to be placed. The sunset is gorgeous, the night sky is clear, and the Milky Way is brilliant, striking the soul with desolation and grandeur!
Mars Camp, this is the place on Earth that least resembles Earth. Space capsules, spacesuits, as if you are on Mars.
🐳: Poor road conditions (requires vehicle power and passability), long-focus photography, aerial photography can have an effect!
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📍: 1. Mangya City, Haixi Prefecture
2. Da Qaidam, Haixi Prefecture
🚘: 1. Navigate to Mangya Emerald Lake, beside the 315 road in Huatugou Town;
2. Navigate to Da Qaidam Town Emerald Lake
🏞️: Both are called Emerald Lakes, although they are hundreds of kilometers apart, each has its own unique beauty, you can choose one or both to see. Comparatively speaking, Mangya Emerald Lake is a bit greener, Da Qaidam Emerald Lake is bluer, and Mangya Emerald Lake is larger overall. The large and small lakes are like gems lost by the fairy world to the human world, dazzling and captivating, making it hard to contain oneself.
🐳: Pay attention to wind and sun protection, aerial photography is recommended if possible.
Summary: Qinghai has unique natural landscapes, with Xining and Golmud as the two base cities to expand outward, there are endless beautiful views, you can plan your route according to time.
The continuous green mountains and mountains, coupled with the blue sky, are a paradise for wildlife survival, and a place full of "wildness", containing the rich and complete biological gene bank of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but for humans, it is not so easy to step into Cocoa Xili. It is called the "human exclusion zone", and it is rare to see people all year round. Climate change is actually very fast. It will start to be high in the absence of oxygen. If you are lucky, yaks and Tibetan antelopes are numerous, but there are also beasts. Don't get off at will, and brown bears and wolves appear in minutes.
Well, Cocosili, my lips are purple, there is no ancient person before and no one after the appearance, he is so lonely walking, but still in May snow, can not find the feeling of loneliness in the snow, there are people traces of snow, lonely smoke billowing
A film of "Cocoa Xili" let the public truly understand the cruel environment of Cocoa Xili, in order to protect the wild Tibetan antelope, how many people have paid their lives here, no sale and no killing.
Wide and spectacular, although the altitude sickness is serious, but it is refreshing
"Coco Xili (Area)" is the Coco Xili Mountains and their nearby basins and hilly areas, mainly in Qinghai Province and northern Tibet, and a small part in Xinjiang, basins: there are East Coco Xili Basin in Qinghai Province, West Coco Xili Basin in Tibet (called Yanghu Basin), The Kumukule Basin in Xinjiang, etc., is the Puruogang Ri - Tibetan-colored Gangri in the southern end of the Tibetan region.