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Qinghai gave me a piece of another planet 🍏

#chinatravel 🧂 Chaerhan Salt Lake — China’s “Salt World” 📍 Located in Qinghai’s Haixi Prefecture, north of Golmud city, within the Qaidam Basin. 🗺 Size: ~5,856 km²—China’s largest salt lake, second-largest in the world.  Elevation: ~2,670 m above sea level.  ⸻ 🌟 Why It’s Amazing • Vast expanse of crystalline salt shimmering green-blue under bright skies, dotted with delicate patterns of salt flowers that resemble corals, petals, and towers.   • The famous “Salt Bridge”: a 32-km salt crust road and Qinghai–Tibet railway line that actually floats above the hypersaline water—locals call it the “floating salt road.”  #chinatravel #travelchina #china #travel #malaysiatochina #myitinerary #familytravel #chinatrip #qinghai #chaerhanlake #汗盐湖
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