[Lifestyle] The Lost World: The Wilderness of Cold Lake

The wilderness all over the sky, the lost world. This is a paradise for tourists and explorers, a place where ghosts and fairyland coexist. Visit the Qaidam Yadan Group and feel the charm of the wilderness with your body.

In recent years, people’s demands for travel have undergone subtle changes. In addition to enjoying the famous mountains and rivers, they have also begun to advocate adventure and hard-working wilderness exploration. The wilderness stretching hundreds of kilometers in the Qaidam Basin has become “lively” .

Located in the Qaidam Basin, it stretches from Mangya in the west to the west of Ulan County in the east, Dongtai in the south and Lenghu in the north, covering an area covered by endless wind-eroded soil forests. These soil forests were originally dry lake bottoms, which were often cracked due to drying up, and the wind eroded along the cracks, making the original flat ground develop into many irregular mounds. In Uighur, “steep mounds” are called “Yadan”, so people gradually call this landform “Yadan landform”.

There are large Yadan landform groups hidden here. The Qaidam Yadan groups that humans have visited so far include the eastern Yadan in Delingha, the Yadan in Dachaidan, the Erboliang Yadan in Lenghu, Golmud Yadan, and very few people. Know the Red Cliff. There are few people around these places for more than a hundred kilometers. If you want to visit these places in depth, it is best to make sufficient material preparations and follow a local guide.

Generally, the common itinerary is divided into four days, starting from Delingha in the east and crossing to Lenghu in four days. Passing by the alien ruins, the Southern Eight Immortals and the ruins of Youcheng, etc. Wherever he went, not only the vast natural scenery, but also the valuable cultural landscape.

In the Dongtai and Xitai Jinel Lakes in West Qaidam, there is the only water Yardang landform in the world, a blue sea hidden in the vast desert. Since there are no decent villages and towns within 200 kilometers around, it has gradually come into the public eye in the past two or three years.

When visiting the Russian Boliang Yadan in Cold Lake, you will pass by the ruins of the Cold Lake Oil Base. As early as the middle of the 20th century, in the cold lake, which was as dry as the moon, there were rich oil resources underground, and it was one of the four major oil field bases in China at that time. It’s just that now there are ruins everywhere, which is a bit desolate.

The Qaidam Yadan Group is a natural architectural museum with a large scale and various shapes. However, in case of bad weather, strong wind mixed with yellow sand sweeps across this uninhabited land, and howls like ghosts and wolves, and this place has become an illusory world of Mars. It is difficult for people who come here to find the boundary between reality and illusion. Uncertainty and unknownness are the gifts of this land to travelers, and this is the rhyme of the wilderness.

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Qaidam Yadan landform group, with an altitude of 2,700 to 3,260 meters and a total area of ​​more than 21,500 square kilometers, is the largest Yadan group in China.

Nanbaxian is located on the northern edge of the Qaidam Basin on the Qingzang Plateau and belongs to the Yadan landform. In 1955, eight female geological team members from the south trekked through the labyrinth of wind-eroded mounds and lost their way in the desert. Unfortunately, all of them died. To commemorate the 8 glorious female geological team members, the place where they died is called “Southern Eight Immortals”.

Alien ruins, from Delingha City, along the 315 National Highway in the direction of Dunhuang, about 40 kilometers away, there is a clear sign on the road, which is a UFO mark, this is the legendary Delingha alien ruins.