Golmud Travel Guide
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The city of Golmud, a treasure basin of oil and minerals, including an abundance of salt (there are 20 salt lakes surrounding the city, some large, some small) and natural gas and oil reserves, as well as reserves of precious metals and precious stones, is the second-largest city in Qinghai Province. Golmud lies on the southern edge – roughly midway, east to west – of the Qaidam Basin, a large depression that lies south-southeast of, and almost adjacent to, the much larger depression, the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang, for short). The two basins are separated by a thin mountainous strip of the Kunlun Mountains as they trail eastward (this phenomenon is called a yardang – see below), while the main expanse of the Kunlun Mountain range in this part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau skirts first south,... [ View Details ]
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Headstream Region of the Changjiang River 
The Changjiang River originates from two glaciers (the north one and the south one) in the shape of semiarc at the southwest of Geladandong Ice Peak with an altitude of 6458 meters, the main peak of... [ View Details ]
Kunlun Mountain
With a length of 1200 kilometers and a width of 60-120 kilometers in Qinghai province, Kunlun Mountain reaches its highest altitude of 6860 meters on the Bugedaban Peak. Most of the mountains in the... [ View Details ]
Nachitai Hot Spring
The Nachitai Hot Spring which is translated from Tibetan and means “the mesa terrace in the marsh ” is also called Kunlun Hot Spring. A jet of hot spring suddenly bubbles up in the middle of the pon... [ View Details ]
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