In ruoqiang county of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China, at the junction with Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu, there is a place called Arjin Mountain, which is one of the four major no-man's land in China, although it is inaccessible, it is not as we know, only drought and desolation, like a flood beast, devouring life, here has a different kind of charm.
Lop Nur is mysterious, Coco Ciri is agile, Changtang is the third pole of the earth, if you want to add a label to Algin, it should be "profound".
Argin is adjacent to Qinghai and Tibet, with an area of 45,000 square kilometers, an average altitude of more than 4,600 meters, is a remote, high-altitude place, there is no frost-free period throughout the year, here it seems that there is no change of the four seasons and the flow of time, the sunshine is strong, the temperature difference is large, but there are rare wild animals in the reserve, known as "one of the world's rare biogeographic provinces, is a rare plateau species gene bank", Tibetan wild donkeys, Tibetan antelopes, wild yaks, wild camels, black-necked cranes and many other rare birds and exotic animals, And more than 200 kinds of wild plants, taking this place as their home.
Surrounded by high mountains and in the middle is a basin, in this "cornucopia" in addition to a variety of wildlife, there are also magical landforms, beautiful landscapes. Lakes, springs, glaciers, deserts, karst landforms, etc., in the quiet no-man's land of Argin, may be able to experience the four seasons in one day, or perhaps see thousands of years at a glance.
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Raiders jun here briefly introduce the landscape in the Argin no-man's land, I hope that everyone is no longer "dazed" here, no longer passing by.
That Lengle Gorge
That Lengele was originally the "Valley of the Sun", but because of some "bizarre" events, it was called "Death Valley". There are many wild animals in Argin, and the Valley of Nalengrad is also a paradise for wildlife, because in summer there are many birds, snakes, hares, bears, etc. living here, but the surrounding herders never enter here to graze.
At first, it was because the daring herders entered the canyon and saw many charred corpses of wild animals, but later people said that they occasionally heard the cries of gold diggers and hunters after falling into the canyon, and they were more and more afraid to enter. In the 1980s, the Geological Bureau sent relevant personnel to investigate, and finally found the following reasons:
1. Here is the lightning strike area, there is a large area of strong magnetic basalt, there are many iron ore, quartz body, because the humid air is blocked by the Kunlun Mountain, Qimantag Mountain, gathered in the canyon, the formation of thunderstorm clouds, coupled with the magnetic field of the ground, so thunderstorms, those charred bodies are because of lightning strikes;
2. In the summer, the surface permafrost melts and the grass is covered, but the meltwater will gradually take away the underground soil, or form mud, similar to a swamp, and if you inadvertently step on it, you will fall into it, and it is difficult to escape.
However, in the summer, there is really a kind of "strange" beauty here, deep canyons, meadows are gradually dense, the dark river under the grass can not be distinguished by the naked eye, only the sound of water flowing from the foot slides by, sea buckthorn, poplar and other plants are also more and more, the rocks on the side of the mountain, like the claws of the beast, the black birds in the sky circling, chirping, as if entering the world surrounded by "black magic".
Ayakkumu Lake
This is a large unfrozen saltwater lake between the Algin Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains, and the largest lake in the Algin Reserve, to the east is a large salt flat, which is a paradise for many birds to inhabit and breed, especially the brown-headed gulls that are endemic to the plateau, in addition to the spotted geese, red-mapped ducks, white-browed ducks, fishing gulls, Mongolian sandpipers, red-footed sandpipers, black-winged long-legged sandpipers, etc. Sometimes with good luck, you can see several black-necked cranes marching together, and even strange birds and mice in the same cave.
Whale Lake
Because it overlooks like a whale, it is named Whale Lake, in the eastern part of the lake about one-seventh of the place, there is a seven-kilometer naturally formed sand embankment, there is a gap in the middle, the east and west lakes are completely different, the east side is a freshwater lake, there are many animals inhabiting, and the west side because of strong evaporation and lack of fresh water supply, day by day has become lifeless, and now it is a lifeless dead lake. The lakes on the east and west sides of Whale Lake are like the Ma Pan Yong Mistake and the Laon Mistake.
Kumukuri Desert
Crescent-shaped sand dunes in the desert, forming a shocking sand spring... The introduction to Kumukuri mentioned in the previous article, the springs and oases in the desert are shocking.
Many of The shocks and scenery of Algin are far from being expressed through words, and I hope that friends who like no man's land can see this different world through their own eyes and feel its charm.
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