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Qinghai Lake, Breathtaking beauty
The lake has an abundant supply of fish, which in
turn attracts large flocks of birds including many migratory breeds. Major
sights on or around the lake are: Bird Island, Haixin Hill, Haixi Hill,
Sankuaishi (Three Stones), and Sand Island.
Breathtaking
beauty
Qinghai Lake, "a blue sea" in Mongolian and Tibetan, is the largest inland
salt lake in China with an area of 4,500sq.km and an altitude of 3,194m , after
which Qinghai Province was named. It is fascinating in its vast expanse of misty
and wavy blue water.
With an average depth of 20m, the lake water contains sodium, potassium,
magnesium as well as scores of salts, which are important materials for
chemical, electronic, optic and pharmaceutical industries.
Around the lake is the endless outstretching of grassland and rapes, and
wheat fields. In the distance, countless sheep, cattle and horses are grazing
under the white cloud-dotted blue sky. Still farther away tower the snow-capped
mountains.
Over the centuries, its splendid scenery and rich aquatic resources have
attracted millions of tourists and numerous valiant pioneers who admire it for
its vastness, splendor and mysteriousness, landing it as a sparkling diamond set
in the Qinghai Plateau.
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