City Wall Tour of Dali Ancient Town

Qinghai and Qinghai Lake
Qinghai and Qinghai Lake, the ancient known as the yangtze river cruises "West Sea", also known as "fresh water" or "little sea." Tibetan language is called "wrong-temperature wave", meaning "green lake"; Mongolian call it "Kukunuoer," or "blue ocean." As part of the Qinghai Lake area of ​​British Columbia earlier Wo family pasture, known as "humble Wo Qiang sea", the Han Dynasty some people call it "fairy sea." Starting from the Northern Wei Dynasty was renamed "Qinghai."

Qinghai Lake area of ​​4456 square kilometers, the lake perimeter of over 360 km, twice as large than the famous lake even more. Lake from east to west, north and south narrow, slightly oval. At first glance, like a mast of the poplar leaves. Qinghai lake average depth of about 19 meters, maximum depth of 28 meters, water storage capacity of 105 billion cubic meters, the lake elevation is 3260 meters, even higher than the two Dong Yue Tai. Because  yangtze river tour this high altitude, the climate is very cool. Even the scorching sun of summer, the average temperature is only 15 ℃ left in the summertime is the ideal summer resort.

Qinghai Lake in different seasons, the scenery is very different. Summer and autumn, when the four weeks towering mountains and vast grassland covered with green West Bank, when installed, Qinghai Lake, beautiful mountains, the days of the air is crisp, the scenery is very beautiful. Like a vast undulating Prairie is covered with a thick green carpet that colorful wildflowers, the green carpet like satin embellishment, such as Jin, countless sheep and Biaofeitizhuang of Cong horse like multicolored mottled pearl speckled grasslands; neat large picturesque lake rolling farmland that Shakes the Barley, cauliflower pan-gold, fragrant; that boundless expanse of blue water and sky color of the lake, like a pool of nectar in the gently rippling glass. And cold winter, when cold weather comes, surrounded by mountains and grasslands become a brown, sometimes covered with a thick layer of snow. November each year, began freezing lake, the vast Bicheng lake, ice jade puzzle, snow, like a giant Hokyo, gleaming and shining in the sun all day emits dazzling brilliance.For more information, please shift to Famous Places to Visit in China