8 days and 7 nights to unlock the Great Northwest Qinggansu Ring Road, awaken the emptiness, loneliness and wildness in your heart, and take a journey like the wind;
On this way, we check in the unique scenery of the northwest, encounter the desert on earth, check in all kinds of lakes, enjoy the treacherous and gorgeous Danxia style, gallop on the Internet celebrity exotic planet highway, and set off in a team anytime, anywhere
The whole 2-8 people boutique independent travel small group, to ensure privacy and give the feeling of travel freedom, let you grasp the scale of travel by yourself
The whole two-night quasi-five + 3-night quasi-four hotel, walking into the Chamuda Basin and Hexi corridor, checking in the Internet celebrity + attractions, and playing all over the northwest in one trip!
Our driver guide is not only the driver and guide on your journey, but also a camera assistant and aerial photography master, accurately grasping each position for you and easily retaining the beautiful moments and moments of your journey
Encounter the beautiful scenery |
Six photo spots
The blue of Qinghai Lake is a warm color, a symbol of eternity, and TA is waiting to meet you - Qinghai Lake
When you meet the pure green Chaka Salt Lake, there is an ethereal feeling, Chaka Salt Lake, the water reflects the sky, the sky is grounded, and people walk between the lakes, like a picture in the middle of the stream.
Dachaidan Emerald Lake comes from the color of the lake, which is as beautiful as emerald, and is the unique salt lake style of Dachaidan. The mining pit, which has been mined in the salt lake for many years, has formed a colorful scene due to the different concentrations of minerals, and the blue sky and white clouds show a dreamy TIFFANY blue
The charm of the vast cliff emerald lake is overwhelmed, and the mirror lake where the emerald green and jade-like salt flowers meet will make you open your mouth in surprise, and the scenery in front of you is a perfect natural oil painting. The yellow road stretches into the distance, tourists sway on the horizon, and white salt flowers rush to the shore like the waves of the sea. It's all like being in an oil painting.
Two-color lake is also called Xitai Jinel Lake, the water of Xitai Jinel Lake, very strange, very special is half blue and half blue, dozens of kilometers of roads pass through the lake, clear water, clean beach, green shore, beautiful scenery, overlooking Xitai Jinel Lake from the air, a road separates the lake into two two-color lakes, like a huge mandarin duck hot pot
Water Yadan was originally a wind-eroded landform unique to arid areas, because the uplift of Lake Genel gradually submerged the Yadan group on the northern edge of Usut to form the unique water Yadan in the world.
Two Daxi net red highways
National Highway 315 stretches for hundreds of miles from Delingha, and the road surface is like a black ribbon, floating in the vast Gobi no-man's land~ It is important to come here with a group of good friends, and the happy 315U-shaped highway is hi
Mars Highway 1 crossing, you can appreciate the whole period of Yadan's formation - formative period, development period, maturity period and extinction period; At the same time, the most fantastic Yadan of Qaidam is gathered here - turtle back, column, beacon, ship, dome, trough... Like people, like gods and Buddhas, like walking beasts, like birds, like ancient castles, like alien visitors...
Four ancient Silk Roads
On Mingsha Mountain, next to the Crescent Spring, Yangguan Ancient Road, Cold Smoke Xianyang; Smell the camel bell and watch the desert sunset, let time stand still at this moment.
The mural portrait of the Mogao Grottoes travels back to the Northern Zhou Dynasty more than 1,500 years ago, and you can only enter a few caves at a time, which is purely the joy of opening a blind box
Jiayuguan is an important pass in ancient times, and when you walk in here and stand on the city wall, you can deeply appreciate the difficulties of the soldiers in those years
Colorful Danxia not only has the wonder and danger of ordinary Danxia, but also more beautiful in color. In a radius of more than 10 square kilometers, you can see a variety of bright colors such as red, yellow, orange, green, white, cyan gray, gray and black, gray and white, etc., decorating countless ravines and hills in a brilliant manner.
The two Qaidam have their own secret realm
Cold Lake Mars Camp is the first field camp in China that simulates the Martian environment, where the weather is dry, communication is blocked, a hundred miles away from the bustle of the city and the noise of the outside world.
There is a rich Yadan landscape around the camp, there is no light pollution, and you can easily see the magnificent starry sky at night! The fully enclosed Mars camp comprehensively simulates the scenes and experiences of "immersive" life on Mars, and truly feels the life of living in outer space
Aiken Spring, a medical section of an eye, also known as the "Devil's Eye". This spring gushes from an inexhaustible source and is unfathomable, because the spring water contains too much sulfur, causing birds and beasts around the spring to dare not approach, and the place where the spring water flows is even more inexhaustible
Around the spring, sulfur and other minerals from the hot springs precipitate for a long time, forming a reddish-brown circle with a strange hue, like the eye socket of a devil. The warm water that constantly rolls and overflows in the spring is more like a magical eyeball, revealing a terrifying feeling of suffocation
Itinerary:
DAY1: Xining Collection
Meet in Xining, and the early partners can arrange today's free activities, and you can buy some snacks and equipment needed on the road in Xining. If you have time, you can take a walk around the city on your own
DAY2: Xining - Qinghai Lake - Chaka Salt Lake - Delingha
In the morning, depart along the Beijing-Tibet Expressway to Qinghai Lake, China's largest and most beautiful saltwater lake, which is ranked first among the five most beautiful lakes in China by National Geographic magazine, and is located in the Qinghai Lake Basin in the northwest of Qinghai Province, which is both China's largest inland lake and China's largest saltwater lake
Then visit Chaka Salt Lake, where salt mining has a very long history, the lake water contains a lot of salt, and the surface of the lake will naturally crystallize and be pure white. Above the crystallization is a thin layer of brine, reflecting the sky, clouds and mountains on the opposite bank in the white lake, which is very beautiful, so it is also called "China's sky realm", late stay in Delingha
DAY3: Delingha - Dachaidan Emerald Lake - U-shaped net red highway - Dongtai - Water Yadan - Dongtai / Da Chaidan
De Lingha in the morning, to today's highlight of the big chaidan emerald lake, the turquoise emerald lake reflects the blue reflection in the sky, it is a picture scroll in the world, we pass through the U-shaped net red highway, check in the most beautiful highway scenery to Dongtai, visit the shocking water Yadan landform, the Yadan group in the northwest reflects the lake, as if it is an aircraft carrier battle group, close to the lake can see a variety of Yadan landforms, stay in Dongtai or Da Chaidan at night (such as Dongtai Jinel Lake is open this year, Dongtai Jinel Lake will stop and play)
DAY4: Lake Ginel in the West Terrace - Mars Highway - Mars Camp - Obolyan (edge) - Aiken Spring - Huatugou
Continue to set off along National Highway 315 in the morning, passing West Tai Jinel Lake, known as Two-color Lake, and then come to Mars Highway 1, Mars Highway 1 is an abandoned national highway, on both sides of the road is a large area of Yadan Group, driving for tens of minutes without seeing a car, as if driving on Mars. To give you another experience
Then come to the Mars camp, which completely mimics the human space station in space, making you feel as if you have traveled to Mars, which is said to be the least Earth-like place on Earth. (If the scenic area is temporarily closed for large-scale activities, it will be changed to the appearance) next to the edge of the Obolian no-man's land, see the more shocking, more peculiar shape of Yadan, it is said that the most beautiful Yadan in Qaidam is here, arrive at Aiken Spring around the evening, visit the legendary Eye of the Earth, the shock feeling is indescribable, the reddish-brown eye-like spring is strange and different, stay in Huatugou at night
DAY5: Huatugou - Vast Cliff Emerald Lake - Cold Lake Oil Site - Dunhuang
After breakfast, come to the Vast Cliff Emerald Lake, which is larger and more colorful than the Great Chaidan Emerald Lake. The color of the lake is also varied, there are emerald green, mint blue, amber yellow, milk white, the road is on both sides of the milky white cliffs, and then walk north to the 305 provincial road through the Cold Lake Oil Town, where tens of thousands of people lived before, known as the Northwest Little Hong Kong, and then crossed the Dangjin Mountain at an altitude of 3648 meters to Dunhuang. Stay in Dunhuang at night, you can go to the Shazhou Night Market AA dinner by yourself, and many Dunhuang snacks are waiting for you~
DAY6: Dunhuang - Mogao Grottoes - Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring - Dunhuang
After breakfast, visit the Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, known as the most valuable cultural discovery of the 20th century. When you follow the scenic docent to visit the history, sculptures, and murals of each cave, you can't help but feel a lot of emotions. Rated as the longest, largest and richest gallery in the world, the Mogao Grottoes are the world's greatest surviving treasure trove of Buddhist art.
In the afternoon, we arrived at the Crescent Spring of Mingsha Mountain, a tourist attraction in Dunhuang, where for thousands of years, Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring have been as shocking as companions, the springs are in quicksand, drought is inexhaustible, and the wind blows sand without falling, which is quite a spectacle.
Everyone can enjoy enjoying the springs, climbing mountains, sandboarding, camel riding... Enjoy the desert style, feel the scenery outside Serbia, and continue to stay in Dunhuang tonight
TIPS：
1. Go to the Crescent Spring of Mingsha Mountain, please prepare plenty of drinking water.
2. When entering the scenic area, you can first choose to rent the shoe covers prepared by the scenic spot to prevent sand from entering the shoes (15 yuan / set). At the entrance of the scenic spot, you can choose to take the battery car directly to the crescent spring, 20 yuan / person round trip.
3. You can also choose to ride a camel to the main peak of Mingsha Mountain first, and then return to Crescent Spring, 100 yuan / person. There is also a choice of small quad bikes or jeeps.
4. Note on Mogao Grottoes tickets: Normal tickets are 238 yuan / person, limited to 6,000 tickets per day, and eight caves can be visited. The emergency ticket is 100 yuan / person, limited to 12,000 people per day, and can visit four caves. It is difficult to find a ticket during the tourist season, please go to the "Mogao Grottoes Reservation Network" public account in time after signing up for the tour to purchase tickets by yourself. (Available up to one month in advance)
DAY7: Dunhuang - Jiayuguan - Zhangye Colorful Danxia
After breakfast, go to Jiayuguan, arrive at Jiayuguan Guancheng, the highest Jiayu Mountain, the walls of the two wings of the city pass cross the desert and the Gobi, 8 kilometers north and the Great Wall of Montenegro, 7 kilometers to the south, the first pier in the world, is the west end of the modern Great Wall, since ancient times the first pass in Hexi. In the afternoon, drive to Zhangye Colorful Danxia, (if the itinerary is tight, it may be adjusted to visit Colorful Danxia in the morning on the eighth day), and stay in Zhangye tonight
DAY8: Zhangye - Biandukou - Menyuan - Xining
After breakfast, go to Biandukou, stay at the observation deck, in the middle of the rolling Qilian Mountains, there is a mountain gorge passage about 30 kilometers long, blocking the waist to cut off the Qilian Mountains, through the two provinces of Gansu and Qinghai, it is called by the ancients "Dadou Bagu" dangerous pass Biandukou, and then to Menyuan, July and August can see rape flower days, extremely spectacular, and then to Xining to disband, with a full of memories home, let's see you next time (if you return on the same day, please book a flight after 19:30, to Lanzhou friends, Xining is 240km away from Lanzhou, and the train only takes 1 hour and 20 minutes, which is also very convenient for many trains)
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