Famous lake salt origin. Northeastern corner of the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province. An area of 118 square kilometers. Salt layer thickness of 8 meters, the center part of the more than 15 meters, can be open-pit mining.
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Telephone complaints Chaka Salt Lake Hercynian Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Mongolian Tourism complaints Tel :0977 -8,222,015 Tourism in Qinghai Province Tel :0971 -6159841 Complaint State Tourism Tel :010-65275315 Complaint
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Chaka Salt Lake in about 20 million square kilometers of the Qaidam basin. Salt Lake is due to a disaster or the formation of crustal movement, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau used to be a part of the ocean, over a long period of crustal movement, this piece of ground raised to become the world's largest plateau, the results of water left in the formation of some low-lying areas of many Salt Lake and ponds, tea cards is one of Salt Lake, tea cards (qiǎ) salt lake almost endless, because the salt water will be more taken off from the surrounding hills. Chaka Salt Lake, has 3,000 years of mining history. Visitors can watch this lake scenery, but also visit the mechanization of salt mining operation, which is a salt of the world, car, ground, and even the air has a salt taste, the distance the boat dug-dug salt salt; close look at these salt, like crystal-like crystals; taste, flavor and salt slightly different. "Tea card" in Tibetan means "the salt sea shore." Salt Lake area of 105 square kilometers, is the crystallization of the Qaidam Basin, the famous natural salt lake. Great quality of pure crystal salt, salt, mellow flavor. As early as twenty-eight years of Qianlong (1763) had been mined, so far, 230 years of history, modern large-scale mining of salt lake cruise ship operations. Lake, a small train to and from Mercedes-Benz, stands like a mountain of salt mound seems to show the wood to the charming scenery and the great salt lake rich. The formation of Chaka Salt Lake Chaka Salt Lake used to be a drain eastward into the Republican basin, into the Yellow River. 10 to 13 years or so tectonic uplift occurred, made into a tea card inland lake salt lake. Qinghai Lake and the smaller area than here, the annual rainfall is small, so each year the amount of water injected into the exceptionally low here, together with evaporation and particularly severe here, and it could be the formation of the high salt content in Salt Lake.