Chaka Salt Lake Scenic Spot was rated as a national 4A-level scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration. Chaka Salt Lake, Ta 'er Temple, Qinghai Lake and Mengda Tianchi are also called "Four Great Scenes of Qinghai". Travelers call Chaka Salt Lake the "mirror of the sky" in China, and it is rated as one of the "55 places people must visit in their life" by National Tourism Geography magazine. Under the setting sun, the lake is as calm as a mirror, as if it has fallen asleep peacefully, which makes people unable to bear to step in and disturb a spring dream.
Chaka Salt Lake is located in the plateau, and its formation is due to plate movement, and the boundary zone of the earth plate originally covered by seawater gradually rises to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. During the formation of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, some seawater remained in low-lying areas, forming many salt lakes and ponds, among which Chaka Salt Lake is one.
Chaka Salt Lake is also a famous natural crystalline salt lake in Qaidam Basin, and its salt production can be used by people all over the country for about 75 years. Now all supermarkets in Shenzhen can buy salt from Chaka Salt Lake. There is a sightseeing train in the scenic spot, which used to transport the produced salt to all parts of the motherland. Now this railroad track has become a good place for everyone to take pictures. You can walk all the way along the tracks to the middle of the lake. Walking and walking, my thoughts drift into the distance, and the wonder of nature is amazing.
There are some salt sculptures to see in the Salt Lake Scenic Area. Because the temperature in Chaka Salt Lake is relatively low all the year round, many salts are not easy to melt. If you touch them with your hands, they are still salty. Walking in the lake area, the salt clattered under your feet. This feeling is like walking through the snow. Watching white salt for a long time may lead to snow blindness.
Geographically, Chaka Salt Lake is sandwiched between the branches of Qilian Mountain and Kunlun Mountain, and the plateau is covered with snow all year round. When the back of the snow-capped mountains is reflected on the lake, the unique natural scenery of the beautiful Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is formed. Let the mirror of the sky produce an inverse space-time effect. Can't tell whether it's the sky or the lake.
Chaka Salt Lake is called "the land of the sky". When the lake is calm, it looks like a mirror. Visitors can walk barefoot to the lake to watch and photograph their own reflection. In a calm time, they will be two people. It's a pity that I didn't pay attention to it for the first time, and all the photos I took for my companions were only half a shadow. Chaka Salt Lake is also a good place to take wedding photos. Couples often come here to take wedding photos and let the blue sky and white clouds witness their pure love.
There are many small black holes in the salt lake. Don't step on them when you can't see clearly. They can be dangerous places. Try not to play in the middle of the lake. When the temperature is high at noon, the salt is easy to evaporate, and people who look at white for a long time are easy to get tired. The salt in Chaka Salt Lake is the original salt and has not been processed. You can take some back, wrap it in cloth and heat it in the microwave, which can remove a little moisture. The salt we brought back is still intact.
Mirror of the night sky: the temperature difference between day and night in Chaka Salt Lake is great. You can wear short sleeves when it is hot during the day, and the temperature drops below zero at night. In order to shoot the starry sky, we took a thick blanket from the hotel and covered ourselves, which made our teeth tremble at midnight. However, it is really beautiful to see Chaka Salt Lake under the vast galaxy. The reflection of the lake makes the starry sky and the lake blend together, and the starry sky seems to fall on the lake. White salt emits a faint blue light under the starry sky, as if in a cordial conversation with the stars in the sky, telling the story of acacia.
Chaka Salt Lake has yurts to live in. We didn't know it at first, so we found a place to live outside. Unexpectedly, the scenery outside Chaka Salt Lake is also beautiful. Distant mountains, white clouds, thatch, the wind blows, and the golden thatch turns over in waves, just like on the grassland, the wind blows and you see the magnificent scenery of cattle and sheep.
It is also convenient to go to Chaka Salt Lake in Xining. There is a shuttle bus to Wulan county at the long-distance bus station, passing through Chaka town, with five flights every day. The fare is around 80 yuan. Others: Follow the salt truck from Heima River to the Lake District, around 50 yuan.
Chaka Salt Lake is really beautiful. Friends who like photography must shoot the starry sky at night. I'll go again when I have a chance.