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Qarhan Salt Lake 察尔汗盐湖Chá'ěrhǎn Yánhú
4A scenic area · Haixi, Qinghai
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Haixi
- Region
- Qinghai
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Qarhan Salt Lake
Qarhan is a vast salt flat in the southern Qaidam Basin, much of it worked for potash and other salts; the Golmud government gives its area as 5,856 km². The visitor area is built around a central wharf (really an industrial brine-pumping station), the 32 km 'Wanzhang Salt Bridge' where the Golmud–Dunhuang road and the Qinghai–Tibet railway run over the salt crust, and fields of 'thousand-island' salt flowers.
How to get to Qarhan Salt Lake
About 60 km from Golmud by road; the Golmud–Dunhuang road crosses the lake.
On the map
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