2. The largest inland saltwater lake in China, with an area of 4,573 square kilometers, is 3,260 meters above sea level, twice the peak of Mount Tai. The deepest part of the lake is 32 meters. There are Bird Island (Haixi Mountain, Haixin Mountain and Haixipi), Sanhuai Stone and Sand Island in the lake. It is available for tourists to visit. Chen Yunhe's poem "Qinghai Lake" describes that "there is always no trace of the grandeur of the inland, and it comes into the eyes of the Sun, Moon and Mountain, which belongs to a kind of majestic spirit with empty water and sky". Bird Island is located in the west of Qinghai Lake, with an area of about 1 square kilometer. Every spring, there are about100000 migratory birds from southern China, Southeast Asia and Indian Peninsula, which are very spectacular, and their colony breeding density is rare in Asia.