1. Walking Route: Xining - Sun Moon Pavilion - gan games -151 - heimahe - Buha River - Bird Island - Quan Kat - gangca - hairgi - Xihai Town - stud farm

2. This is a wonderful line evaluation of the walking routes, circulation Qinghai Lake, allowing you to feel like a bit pilgrimage of believers, they threw walking.

3. Foot level of professional-grade activity (stimulus + hard + beauty) 3 (intensity and danger in the + weak + weak skills)

4. Walking time 6 days (including car dealers time)

5. From Xining

6. Transit point for Bird Island, Bird Island could ride back to Xining.

7. End of stud farm

8. Recommended number of 3-5 people, because of supply along the way are more places, accommodation is also convenient, so 3-5 people together, it is easier to take care of, but also easy.

9. Recommend the best trip Xining - Bird Island

10. The contents of the content on foot on foot

11. Must be equipped with sunglasses

Qinghai Lake in Qinghai Lake in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, 150 km from Xining, an area of 4500 square kilometers, an elevation of 3,200 meters, the lake ice-cold and high salt. Qinghai Lake Mongolian called "Counord", Mongolian Tibetan is called "wrong-temperature cloth", or "green lake" means.

Qinghai Lake is China's largest inland lake, but also China's largest saltwater lake, covering an area over 4400 square km, more than 3260 meters above sea level is far higher than in the ancient city of Xining, more than 1000 meters. The climate is cool, even in hot weather of summer, the daily average humidity usually around 15 in C, is an ideal summer resort. Qinghai Lake is a constant uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the survivors down.

Foot regional climate: a typical plateau continental climate, square-root climate characteristics are: long duration of sunshine, radiation, a large amount of long and cold winter, short cool summer, the annual average temperature of -5.6-8.6 C. Qinghai Lake dry climate, cold a long period, large diurnal temperature range, solar radiation, wind more than the number of days.
Best Walking Time: Qinghai Lake can travel all year round, but due to climatic reasons, tourists are mostly concentrated in the summer to go, because the higher summer temperatures in Qinghai Lake, often rains at night, and therefore more humid. If the major destination is the Bird Island, then, places in May is the best. Migratory birds in Qinghai Lake in the annual return of five friends began to master, so at this time is a good season. If you want a taste of Qinghai Lake and that rippling water waves, sunny grassland scenery, 7,8 a friend to this are the best option. Qinghai Lake in these two friends and pleasant weather, there is no hot and cold, is the scenery beautiful, the traffic is least congested season. Copies of each of 8,9-Peng, northern shore of Lake Qinghai, there are large areas of rape classes in Qinghai Lake, a major attraction. If the nine friends to enjoy the autumn scenery in Qinghai Lake, should be prepared to cold preparations.

Traveling:
To: by car: Xining to Qinghai Lake is about 80 km from the highway, not Lake is about 400 kilometers a week. Coach Station you can take bus from Xining to Bird Island, some 50 kilometers away from the dark horse river, the time for nearly 5 hours, the people around 0 RMB. There sat the rest by road vehicles, and under normal circumstances is not easier.

Car rental: There are many travel agencies in Xining Railway Station and the inn to attract the business of Bird Island in Qinghai Lake, the general day trips cost 100 yuan, the cost of Two-Day Tour to about 180, not including the cost of accommodation and tickets . Of the tourist season in the 5-9 friends every day start. Another approach is to go to their own rental Qinghai Lake, the cost of five lakes takes about 800-1000 yuan.

Back to: In the stud farm by crossing the car back to Xining.
Accommodation: Local tents Qinghai Lake Hotel is a 2 star hotel. Away from scenic Sun Moon books daotanghe 30-50 km.
Tourists can also bring their own tents in the lake overnight, can also go to a local hotel accommodated the famous Bird Island, where the price is only 25 yuan, 120 yuan, but also two private dining rooms.

Bird Island there are some locals in the vicinity of tents operated by the button, in fact, ride a few beds in the tent, providing a simple diet. Of course, living here on the premise that health conditions you also need high expectations, especially the bath and toilet. In addition, in the summer, even in the tent, the ground is relatively wet in. Advantage is that inexpensive, and some tourists have been the success of the anti-price of 15 yuan / night.

Dining: In addition to Bird Island in Qinghai Lake near the hotels, good restaurants there are no more options can be offered to tourists. Qinghai Lake, the lake is very salty and can not drink. Suggest that you bring enough water and food daily. The most famous of material non-scale growth of sturgeon fish, salt water fish lake in Qinghai, in the cold water path length 1 cm in one year, leaving the lake will die within a few minutes.

In the Bird Island hotel restaurant you can enjoy a variety of ways to cook sturgeon fish without scales. Known as the "whole fish feast", respectively, steamed, braised, sweet and sour, garlic consommé explosion, and sturgeon fish, each one more than in Wujin, cost about 50 yuan each person to be around. In addition, there are many locals along the Qinghai Lake to sell their catch to tourists, as well as in the vicinity of the sturgeon fish ? dug into the delicious mushrooms, if you own rental travel to Qinghai Lake, may wish to bring a simple to buy their own cooking utensils to taste fresh.

In addition, the Bird Island near the tents of local Tibetan business people the button, which you can enjoy a simple Tibetan foods, such as mutton chop, blood sausage, tsampa, etc., but the effectiveness of the credit may be less adapted.
Xining travel departing from the lake line, which is follow the east - south - west - north in a clockwise direction. This is exactly the coast of the Tibetan people very much admired by turning the line, first to arrive in Riyue - fishing grounds -151 (accountant Hotel) - jiangxigou - Horse River, this ride; and then traveling to Haar Gai, and the remaining Re-town on foot to the Hercynian - stud farm, and then return to the Hercynian town, ride back to Xining.

The first day itinerary: Xining - Sun Moon Pavilion - fisheries -151 - heimahe car about 4 hours Description: relaxing day, traveling on foot from Qu Wang Qinghai Lake horse river, driving seen in Nanshan, ? scenery, listen to Qinghai Lake touching legend.
From Xining traveling to heimahe, after Riyue, Riyue is to permanently remain in the Qinghai Lake on the plateau of the barrier (Note: According to scientific research data, a number of years ago, Qinghai Lake tether is a foreign exchange lake, the surrounding There Baichuan Tanxiluocheng vent water to make the lake, lake leaked into the Yellow River and from the east. in the crust fracture due to continued role in the formation of orogeny, the lake gradually squeezed by the uplift of the terrain east, creating a Riyue, so that lake's exports have been raised by the lonely mountains, blocking the east trickle down to the river to the west, today in the daotanghe Riyue hit by a monk doing on the 1st day of clock change is the history of this period of earth's crust traces). Yakou Peak Highway on both sides, Japan and the high arched pavilions and kiosks on the other you can see the famous ancient Akamine, Akamine is the dividing line between the forces of the Central Plains and the Tubo Kingdom. And the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, exactly stacked with Tangfangudao Yamaguchi in the sun and the moon. With regard to the text into the documents the story of Tibet in this total was raised, because the Riyue quench the text into the documents of many touching stories of their way to Tibet. Can be seen in the Hainan Hill, ?. After fishing grounds overlooking the sea, mountains, but it is Wan Yan a rock in the sea (Note: the sea, mountains area 1). In ancient times the vast Qinghai Lake area is a large expanse of grassland, grasslands of the Central has a very deep and the wind defame a large spring, spring covered by a stone lid, and later opened a stone covered with a passer-water quench their thirst, drinking water, hurry hurry forget the cover slate, springs billowing out, then merged into an ocean. Disposal of the West Queen Mother is said to be a firmly built in the spring hill above the water stopped rising. This is a monk doing on the 1st day, hit the bell is the folklore of Qinghai Lake and the Harbor Hill causes.

Check available carts, heimahe hostels or local food guest houses, rooms clean, each 30 yuan.

2nd - 3 days: heimahe - Buha spill - Bird Island

Description: The most famous along the river to enter paradise of birds in Qinghai Lake to watch the world of birds.
Dark horse began to walk from the river, go day, God hit the day clock begins to exceed the bird's paradise, the air over the sea birds are, better, mostly geese, gulls and other migratory birds, the larger shape. To the Buha River (Note: The Buha River This is Hu's first river), crossing the river is spring Kichigo Gangcha County, is cable-year Ma village, the village the size of the town, shops, restaurants, intensive, which is to Bird Island portal. Night in the sleep. Early the next morning straight to Bird Island, the way birds circling his head. Bird Island, went to heaven.
From the five new bunkers, watch the birds through the promotional materials of the world, or from the five platforms across the railing nearby observation, the pace of release of light, whisper, so as to avoid the birds; be disturbed. The geese and the Ouniao dense in this small wetland live this, live, or lying, or steps, or Xiang, drifting around. Females lie lay in the nest in the hatchery, neighboring birds in the side of the guard or for females foraging. No trees here, no flowers, only low-flying bird and the rattle of the rattle of 10000 birds have added a number of sensual and dynamic map.
Bird Island early this century is not immersed in the Blue Wave in an island with an area of only 0.1 square kilometers. As the lake decreased year by year, has now become with the land connecting the peninsula. To tens of thousands of migratory birds due to habitat for Bird Island, named after front, in the west of the island called the Hercynian mountains, known as the small sun, the east is called Hai Xipi Big Island, two islands are now connected into one. Every spring, the Bar-headed Goose, fish, gulls, brown played out as gulls and other paid heed to the distant equatorial Xiang, during the island nesting stack nest, raise a family. A tranquil, lush plants, fish and numerous pairs of under the protection of the people, it becomes migratory waterfowl habitat, breeding, brooding natural place.
Arrived at Bird Island, bird-watching, the night you can stay at Bird Island hotels, or hotels, where accommodation more convenient.

Day Four: Bird Island - Quan Ji

Introduction: choice or vehicle to continue to move forward Wai lake, watch ancient rock paintings and other relics.
From Bird Island to the spring Kyrgyzstan, along the way can not be made to see the island's birds, can go to the north along the negative-yang city, Chebes its rock art. Qinghai Lake region, leading to the Western Regions and the Central Plains in ancient China's southwestern frontier line of the Qinghai Road and the Southern Silk Road, Tang Gu Fan Road traffic stronghold, since the Western Han Dynasty onwards assigned to the unity of China's feudal dynasties within the territory, coupled with the formation of multi-ethnic local separatism regime, and therefore the number of city water, and the Yellow River valley after the Huang River.
If time is not enough, you can ride to the spring on the way Kat, an undecided can see the tourists come to Qinghai Lake, mostly directed at Bird Island from, under normal circumstances, to Bird Island in Qinghai Lake, mainly to bird watching, and then After the town car Hercynian back to Xining.

Day Five: Quan Ji - gangca - hairgi - West Sea town (by car)

Description: car forward one day reach the beautiful scenery of the town, in the cattle and sheep flocks of prairie, listening to the song "In that distant place."

Kyrgyzstan in the spring can easily ride to the West Sea town, on the way, if you can, can go to take a look at the ancient city Gahai arrived in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture Haibei Xihai town, the town 30 kilometers away from the Qinghai Lake, located in the Golden Sand prairie, the West Sea town, are buildings everywhere, beautiful, clean place. South Haibei modern Qinghai Lake, the north side of Qi Shan. Xihai Town has much to be proud of the place: there is the ancient city of the West Sea during the Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Fifteen Strings of Coins County Stone Kui, as a national key cultural relics on display here; 50's film "Golden Sand" is a shot in this piece of grassland, the magnificent The scenery is intoxicating, the western singers Wang Luobin purchase here, wrote the famous song "In that distant place," and he and Dolma girl full of rumors of a romantic.

To the Golden Sand roaming. Sheep and yaks scattered in the grass, horses robust, is a Chinese name of stallion. If there is a guide for the guests along the way will tell the story of past and present grasslands. Particularly with regard to Wang Luobin in the section of this piece of grassland on the same things, most visitors to recover from fatigue. Said Young Wang Luobin one day roaming the grasslands, see a Mongolian girl astride a fine horses, perhaps for a joke, perhaps in order to express goodwill, went so far as to take advantage of the girl they'd been punched in the horse beat up on the bottom. Ma frightened forepaw upright, can not the girl fall. Girl plus or minus a fierce glare of the Wang Luobin, troops on Zermatt and the clouds. Buduoyihui, Wang Luobin her around to the back, while its non-defense, he severely pumped Yibian north. They labeled the whip does not extend to enemy, and it was found two days and nights Wang Luobin and girls kiss hot commodities with the ride a horse roaming the grasslands. Girl Mingjiaozhuoma (Note: The Tibetan language in the "Dolma" is the meaning of fairy, "measures" is the meaning of the sea), Wang Luobin experience life in the plains to the girl with the Drolma adventure and 6 were his creative inspiration and wrote " In that distant place "in this affectionate unlimited, half a century is not bad songs sung.
In the west the town, you can enjoy the performance of Tibetan, Han, Mongolian, Hui, soil, Destructive Enthusiasm and Latin ethnic songs and dances, taste Mongolian guests presented the cups to meet the highland barley wine.

On the sixth day: Xihai Town - Koto stud farm

Introduction: the end of the stud farm of Qinghai Lake, travel, the last look at the Riyue, Longyangxia reservoirs incomparable beauty of the scenery.
From Hercynian to the stud farm town, about half a day to reach the lake east of the East from Riyue stud farm, south extension Longyangxia Hydropower browsing district can view the text into the sun and the moon booths and the Tang Dynasty Tibet scenario documents murals and so on, can visit the Long Yang with the reservoir scenery, boating lake, but also to visit Mongolian family.

(A) as soon as the lake city of the ancient city of ruins V: a lot of the ancient city of Qinghai Lake, the West Bank city of Tuyuhun 5 --- V Enemy is one of the city, one of the most famous ancient city. This soldier is located in the ancient city of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, Republic County, north of Shi Nai Hai Xiang, vegetables chi south east of Qinghai Lake is about 15 years of the place, "V as soon" as Xianbei language "Bo Tung" black-hearted tone, Han Italy " King City. " Time limit to build the city would not exceed 540 AD, is the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties Tuyuhun nation's Capital, the Sui Dynasty to the West Sea Gunji located here. In fact, it is the 6-7 century AD, the city renowned Tuyuhun Wang. The city has the city outside the city, as well as the central axis of Kuo-based architectural layout, reflecting the Han-style castle layout of the basic characteristics of pairs of considerable national style, reflects the cultural diversity Tuyuhun.

Ancient peoples: Tuyuhun is Murong Xianbei of an originally active in northeast China. Jin Yongjia, its chief Tuyuhun mobilize people believers in Longyou gowns Han (now Gansu Linxia) nard zone, and then west of zero occupation of the West (now the west of Qinghai Hu), West a few miles south of a very white Zhuang and to Tuyuhun Tameuji become a tribal name. Scope of its activities including the current Qinghai and Hainan, Hercynian, and Guoluo northern area, but close to the eastern agricultural areas, natural conditions were better Hainan back, the eastern Hercynian base of its importance, a number of important military activities in the belt.

(B) of the West Sea County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Haiyan Haibei ancient town in the west, there is a long history, large-scale ancient ruins, and this is the Han Xihai Gunji Institution, a national key cultural relics protection units in the third installment. Vagaries of the ancient city of Qinghai Lake in north-east beach of gold and silver rich grass verge Ma Xu River North, north and south hillslopes east-west for the open prairie, very strategically located and difficult terrain. The city was square, something about 650 meters from north to south width of 600 meters, 4 meters high wall residues, base of a wall 10 meters wide and the east, the north, south, there are four gates, each opening in the walls of the middle of the city along the East and West in the axis of the architectural monuments looming, south-west has a large mound, height of 8 meters, 10 meters in diameter, suspected beacon towers building.
Ancient peoples: Qinghai Lake is surrounded by Han Qiang activities of the center. Han Ping Di Yuanshi four years (AD 4), the Central Langqiang An Han-Ping Kung Wang Mang sent to carry a large number of constitutional and other belongings, to the West Sea area on land donated by the Qiang people lured to concede defeat, Qiang West, go here fortification will be set up Wang Mang Xihai County, and has already established the East China Sea, North Sea, the South China Sea claimed. Xihai County jurisdiction Xiu Yuan, supervisor Qiang, Xing Wu, Jun, Shun gravel five counties, is still widely established around the Qinghai Lake Inn and beacon towers. Home photo first year (AD 6), the head of Pang Tian Qiang Fu Wang Mang streamers and other hate sites, robs them of their set counties, so to attack the West Sea Prefecture CHENG Yong, CHENG Yong-defeated, the county is once more falling into the West Sea Qiang hands. The following spring, Wang Mang sent Huqiangjiaowei sinus conditions shuaibing counterattacks, gradually regained control of the region. Huang Xin Mang to 4 years (AD 23) Wang Mang added that the peasant uprising army killed Xin Mang dynasty collapsed, the West Sea County also will be discarded. Though once in the Eastern Han Yong-yuan County, formed to restore the West Sea, but soon after abandoned. Jun Cheng is the Western Han Dynasty set up the West Sea in the northwest of the city is also a pass Central Asia an important control points, the ancient Silk Road through the land.

Buha River: Buha River is located in the northwest of Qinghai Lake basin. "Buha," the Mongolian meaning "buffalo" because Xi-crystal haunt named after the river area Buffalo. Originated in Shule Nanshan, Qilian pulse Man offshoot Crystal Beach, the northern foot of more peaks. Source of 4600 meters above sea level. Was roughly northwest - southeast flow, in the spring Kichigo Gangcha County into Qinghai Lake, China's largest saltwater lake ----. Into the lake at 3194 meters above sea level. River length 286 km, basin area of 14,384 square kilometers, over the years an average flow of 25.9 cubic meters / second, the annual runoff of 818 million cubic meters, accounting for the total runoff into the lake of 67%. Qinghai Lake is the largest river basin, river system, but also Qinghai Lake sturgeon breeding fish the main channel. Basin 350 mm average annual rainfall, runoff with rainwater and snow melt-water supply main.

Special Note:

1. Qinghai provincial capital cities in the non-working hours are shorter, do not use the mainland standards are expected to pharmacies, hospitals and so on business hours, to stay well ahead of the full amount of the advance procurement of finished drugs in Xining.
2. Tibetan yak butter tea of the type of food is not suitable for mainlanders stomach and can not eat. The local hospitality of buttered tea Kong Wan will have to re-fill up the custom, it is always advisable to keep two-thirds of a bowl full of butter tea, and so neither hurt the feelings of pairs of the Tibetan people to protect themselves, it is recommended to bring silence like antidiarrheal drug prime.
3. Tibetan tents, some attention, such as accommodation moisture in the bed with the ground should be Gechao between the layers, such as plastic sheeting and other non-professional moisture can be replaced.
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