The Qingganda Ring Road, one of the best loops in Northwest China, is a safe and comprehensive scenic avenue covering more than 20 scenic spots in Qinghai and Gansu.
Throughout the northwest beauty, the whole distance is more than 2,000 kilometers, also known as the Northwest Great Ring Road, this journey from mountains to lakes, from the Gobi to the desert, from the mountains to the grasslands.
On the first day, depart from Xining to Delingha, a distance of 500 kilometers. The first stop is Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Lake is the largest inland lake in mainland China and is known as the most beautiful lake in China. The endless lake surface looks like a sapphire set in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Leaving Qinghai Lake, we drove to Chaka Salt Lake, 160 kilometers, over the rubber mountain at an altitude of 3 kilometers, to reach Chaka Salt Lake. Known as the mirror of China's sky, comparable to Bolivia, Chaka Salt Lake is a brine lake where solids and liquids coexist, where you can take unique reflection portraits, stay in Delingha at night, and rest here.
On the second day, from Delingha to Dongtai Jinel, the whole distance is 400 kilometers, leaving Delingha and continuing for 200 kilometers into the Great Chaidan Lake in the Qaidam Basin.
Here the salt lake is divided into small and large lakes of different shapes, the color is from grass green, dark green, dark green and verdant green, different angles, different light, completely different colors, so it is also called God's palette.
Leaving Emerald Lake, we arrive at the next check-in place, the most beautiful U-shaped road on National Highway G315 and the most beautiful section of National Highway 315. The highway leads directly to the sky, giving people a super visual impact, known as China's version of Highway 66, you must pay attention to the traffic when playing.
Leaving the U-shaped road, we continue for more than 110 kilometers to reach the next check-in place, Dongtai Lake Jinal, known as the Maldives of China.
The lake is pure blue, now the lake has dried up, the lake surface has disappeared, forming a desert Gobi, which reminds people of a saying, the scenery you want to see hurry up to see, the people you want to see hurry up to see, once missed may be a lifetime.
On the 3rd day, from Dongtai Jinel to Da Chaidan, leaving Dongtai Jinel Lake, we continued to walk and came to Yadan on the water.
Located in the core area of the Qaidam Basin, it is the only water Yadan landform in the world, leaving the water Yadan, we arrive at Xitai Jinar Lake, also known as the two-color lake. This is a beautiful water road, a road that divides Lake 1 in two, and looks like a giant mandarin duck pot from the perspective of the drone.
On the 4th day, we arrived at Yumen Pass and left Dachaidan, and we continued to the oil town of Aksay at the foot of the Qilian Mountains. It is a filming location for films and television such as the nine-story demon tower, and is now one of the popular attractions for exploring the secret check-in.
Leaving the oil town, we traveled about 90 kilometers to Yangguan, an ancient city sung by generations of literati and inkers, and advised the jun to drink more wine, and the West Out of Yangguan is unreasonable, where you can see the endless Gobi Desert.
On the 5th day, Yumen Pass arrived at Dunhuang City, leaving Yumen Pass, we traveled 70 kilometers to Yadan Devil City.
Hundreds of millions of years of geological changes and wind and sand erosion, created a unique Yadan landform, whenever the wind rises at night, the fierce wind passes through the Yadan landform, emitting a terrifying ghost crying wolf howl, extremely eerie, so it is called the devil city. Leaving Yadan Devil City, we turned back the same way and entered Dunhuang City.
The 6th day trip to Dunhuang, Dunhuang has two signboards, first come to the Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring, known as one of the scenery outside Cyprus, the ship of the desert, camels as a good. Here you must climb to the top of the mountain to overlook the crescent spring, and you can also enjoy the ultimate romantic sunset at the top of the mountain and feel the desolate conditions of the northwest desert.
The second is the Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, with 492 caves and 45,000 square meters of murals, making it the world's largest and richest Buddhist art holy place.
On the 7th day, Dunhuang to Zhangye, a journey of 300 kilometers, leaving Dunhuang we continued 110 kilometers to reach the son of the earth in Guazhou, Jubao.
Sleeping in the Gobi Desert, listening to thousands of years of Silk Road history, and coming to the giant baby sculpture, you will feel a spiritual shock that you have never felt before.
Leaving the Son of the Earth, we continued to travel 270 kilometers to reach Jiayuguan, the throat of the Hexi Corridor, which is also the westernmost pass of the Great Wall, and quietly waited at the foot of the Qilian Mountains for thousands of years, witnessing countless beacon wolf smoke, and the ice and iron horse, known as the world's first pass. In Jiayuguan, you must eat a kebab, you can't eat this taste in the whole country.
On the 8th day, Zhangye to Xining, the journey is 350 kilometers, leaving Jiayuguan, we continue to travel 220 kilometers to Zhangye colorful Danxia.
It is the only Danxia landform in China, with the colorful hilly landscape high, the high composite area is colorful, strong ornamental, with the sun's light changes, you can see the colorful Danxia different magnificent scenery.
Leaving the colorful Danxia, we traveled 180 kilometers to reach the Qilian Mountain Grassland. It is one of the six most beautiful grasslands in China, surrounded by majestic snow-capped mountains, vast grasslands stretching for thousands of miles, accompanied by cattle and sheep all the way, showing the scenery of plateau grasslands, leaving the Qilian Mountain grassland, returning to Xining, the starting point of the trip, to end the trip.
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