Menyuan - China's largest canyon rape flower sea

Between the Qilian and Daban mountains in Menyuan County of Qinghai's Haibei Prefecture, there is a river named Datong, which partially forms a plain in the plateau canyon. In early July, golden rape flowers are in full bloom from the Qingshizui to the Xianmi gorges. The rape land in Qingshizui is flat and open, running southward directly to the foot of Qilian Mountain. Except for a few houses and the snow-capped Qilian Mountain, thousands of hectares of rape land reveal the same color, like a great piece of nugget.

It's quite another scene from the Menyuan County seat to the Xianmi Gorge. The river narrows in the area and hills abound. The area is planted with alternating strips of highland barley and rape, which seesaws and turns with the ups and downs of the land. When viewed from the top of a hill, the region looks like a tiger's skin.

From the beginning of July to the 20th of July, when the rape flowers blossom, the annual Rape Flower Festival will be held in Menyuan.

  Lijiaxia Reservoir - Danxia landform rarely seen in the West

The Lijiaxia Reservoir is located in Jianzha County of Huangnan Prefecture. On the south bank of the reservoir are the combined landscapes of danxia (a kind of karst landform), red and yellow earth peaks. There is a nearby Tibetan village called Kabula, and thus the marvelous region is called Kanbula Danxia Geopark. Near the dam of the reservoir is a spiral road leading to the top of the mountain, where one can get a whole view of the reservoir and the surrounding mountains.

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