Qinghai lake is one of the biggest salt lake in china, located in northwest part of china, qinghai province. Lots of people are attracted by the mystrious color of the lake. The birds island is home to great number of birds breeding.   The best time of visiting is from May to October.

Geermu (Golmud) is a country level city in qinghai. It's the second largest city in Qinghai Province. The population is over 200, 000. The average elevation is about 2.8km. There are more than 20 salt lakes around the city. The average temperature the year is around 5 °C. So the summer there is very short. The Tibetan railway is just across Golmud. There is also train from Xián and Xining to Golmud.

Now It's a good time for the travel in Tongren, the mountains around is green and the weather is just right for the trip, not too cold or hot. You could enjoy all the great views around, the big green mountains, the yaks, the horse, the sheep and the tents. Just take your bag and go with me.

   Chaka salt lake is a natural crystallized salt lake over 3000 years, located in chaka town, wulan county, haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai province. It is one of the four major salt lakes in the Qaidam basin."Chaka" is a Tibetan word meaning salt pool, which is also the salt of blue sea.

   The feature of climate  around chaka salt lake is warm , cool, arid with little rain. It belongs to the plateau continental climate ,with an annual average temperature of 4 degree and an annual average rainfall  of 210.4 mm. The salt lake looks like an oval in shape and covers an area of 105 square kilometers.It is 3,100 meters above sea level, 15.8 kilometers long and 9.2 kilometers wide.

   Chaka salt lake is as famous as Ta'er monastery and Qinghai lake. It is reputated as the mirror of sky by tourists, which is a particular site for photographing. It was rated as one of  "55 places of must going in the lifetime" by national travel geography magazine.

  Dan Geer ancient city is located in the huangyuan county in qinghai province and  in the north shore of the Yellow River, the west sea.It is away from xining city 40 km, well compared as the throat of Qinghai and  Tibet . Dan Geer  means white conch in Tibet language. The Dan Geer city used to be reputated as the trading capital and  little beijing,where the loess plateau and Qinghai-tibet plateau combined , farming culture and the grassland culture  intersected , Tang Fan road and south silk road went through and  many people gathered .

  Dan Geer Ancient city was built in Ming dynasty around 14 century.It was enlarged in  the qing dynasty .Now it covers an area of 250,000 square meters, has a history of over 600 years ago, and is an ancient historical and cultural city. In the city many old constructions still exist,such as  interweaved streets and alleys, the residential courtyards with unique structure, magnificent temples and monasteries, intact family firms ,different styles of HuangYuan lamp, and so on , which carries strong multicultural information, reflects the rich local national characteristics and the strange vision of farming and animal husbandry cultures intersection fusion.

Qinghai Lake is located at west of Xining city 160 km. In Mongolian language ""Qinghai hu" means blue sea. It is the largest salty lake and inland lake of China. It covers an area of 4583 square km. The average depth of it is 18.6m now.The sea level of the lake is 3196 m. It is about 360km to walk around it. Every year a special riding bycycle race is held around Qinghai lake. It is said in the legend that the Empress Wangmu of western heaven once came here and visited it. It is such a beautiful  and legendary place.

The people's park is the most popular park in xining, with tulip festival in June, ice sculpture exhibition in winter, and various recreational facilities, a good place to take a walk. There are all the sparrows here - the gym, fishing, dry ice, basketball, playground, night market, outdoor tea house and bar street. This place is called "artificial embroidery", the first of the new eight sceneries in xining.

Dongguan qingzhen temple is located in the dongguan area of xining city, which is home to the hui autonomous region since ancient times, and there are many muslims who believe in Islam. Dongguan halal big temple is the biggest mosque in qinghai province, and the famous xi 'an in northwest China sleep temple, lanzhou portal temple, xinjiang kashgar moxa tikal and called the northwest four big mosque, Abbey is the worship hall is the largest building in the temple, can accommodate 10000 people at the same time. The top of the temple is a treasure bottle of the Tibetan style, which is a gift from the lama temple of Lhasa, gansu province, only for the local mosque.