Chaka Salt Lake is located at No.9 Salt Lake Road, Chaka Town, Wulan County, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. "Chaka" means Yanchi in Tibetan, Dabsunnaoer in Mongolian, and it is also a green salt sea.

The average elevation of Chaka Salt Lake is 3059 meters, the lake area is 154 square kilometers, and the scenic area is 30 square kilometers. It is an important site of the ancient Silk Road and the intersection of National Highway 109 and National Highway 3 15. It is 298 kilometers east of Xining, the provincial capital, and 200 kilometers west of Delingha, and is known as the east gate of Qaidam Basin.

Qinghai Lake is located in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, between Haiyan, Gangcha and * * counties in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The longest lake is 106 km long from east to west, 63 km long from north to south and about 360 km in circumference. Qinghai Lake is the largest inland saltwater lake in China, with an area of 4,625.6 square kilometers and a capacity of 74.3 billion cubic meters.

Characteristic landscape of Chaka Salt Lake;

Chaka Salt Lake has an empty area, flat terrain and strong reflection ability, just like a mirror for the sky, which is called "the mirror of the sky" in China. The best shooting time of Mirror in the Sky is before 9 am and after 5 pm.

Chaka Salt Lake is located at 36 degrees north latitude, in the east of Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province. The plateau is pollution-free. In the lake area, you can clearly appreciate the vastness of the Milky Way and the dazzling strangeness of meteors. The reflection of the lake makes the starry sky blend with the lake, and the starry sky seems to fall on the lake. Therefore, the Chaka Salt Lake at night is called "the mirror of the night sky" in China.

Chaka Salt Lake is the most beautiful time around sunrise and sunset. Colorful clouds, sunrise or sunset set off the salt lake, forming a picture of water and sky. The sunrise time of Chaka Salt Lake in May-September is around 6: 30 in the morning, and the sunset time is around May-September 19: 30.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chaka Salt Lake

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Qinghai Lake