Source: People's Daily - Qinghai Channel
People's Network Golmud, July 8 (Liu Peiran, Chen Mingju) Half of the lake and half of the sand, the depths of the Gobi, a beautiful wonder - Dachaidan water Yadan relics independence.
In midsummer and July, the water Yadan is a lively scene: flocks of sand gulls or splashing on the shore, or soaring in the blue sky, "Hundred Birds and Thousand Island Lake" is the tourists give here a beautiful name. Some people say that this is a lost world, but also the jasper on the Gobi Desert; the mountains here have been eroded by the perennial wind for thousands of years, leaving only the shadow of a lonely old man in the vast world, standing proudly in a dammed lake.
"Yadan" is a Uyghur word meaning "small mountain bag with steep walls", also called "wind erosion forest", which is a peculiar wind erosion landform. The water surrounding Yadan is formed by the melting of snow from the Kunlun Mountains, which raises the water level of Lake Ginel next to yadan in the dryland, submerging the relatively low Yadan group around it, thus forming a spectacle of the lake combined with small mounds.