Dulan Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)

Dulan is not a well-known place for people who come to Haixi for the first time. Especially in terms of travel, it does not seem to be a hot place, but in terms of location, three sides are Surrounded by gentle mountains, is it natural, gentle, and beautiful? Of course, it is beautiful, but the beauty that belongs to Dulan is not strong. It is just a plain day that is dyed with the sunset color. It is more appropriate to describe it with "beauty" than "beauty." A large grass field, a large flower sea, the girl is full of joy, running, jumping, taking pictures everywhere, crazy. Like a big ticket girl, I wore the most beautiful flower skirt that day, posing the most enchanting posture, hoping to be perfectly integrated.

There are no magnificent snow-capped mountains or vast lakes in Dulan, but all the way from the barren land to Dulan, the plants gradually become more and more beautiful, birds, flowers, grass, and trees. Dulan County is located in the summer, and more than 200 kilometers along the west to Nomuhong, there are thousands of ancient tombs and ancient sites. The sea temple flower sea in Dulan County is in the middle of the 109 National Road to the Golmud section. Dulan is a small attraction in Qinghai, but you can take a big impression everywhere. Although I missed the flowering period of Huahai, there is always a large piece of rape blossoms next to the small village on the road, which is more popular and more refreshing. Large areas of rapeseed fields, in mid-summer season, here is like the spring of all things growing. Dulan County is located in the southeastern part of the Qaidam Basin. As early as more than 1,000 years ago, Dulan was the important town on the Qinghai Silk Road.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, it is hard to believe that there is a place called Nomuhong 200 kilometers west of Dulan County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province. The trees are shaded and the farmland is continuous, and you can't feel the desolateness and the vastness of the northwest. Here, the Kunlun is seen, and the snow on the upper part melts and moistens the land. The 100,000-mu Yulin not only protects the wind from sand, but also adds a bright red color to the dense green shade. The impression of the is always associated with Ningxia, knowing that Qinghai's Nuomuhong also produces high quality glutinous rice. From July to September each year, the is mature, and the red and bright fruit is covered with branches. In the endless forest, look up, not far from Kunlun. There is a diversion channel on the ground of Yulin. This water is the snow water from Kunlun. It is cold and clear in summer and can be drunk directly. In Nomhong, it is natural snow water. Half a century ago, Nomuhong was still a dune, and the sand was raging. Today it is already a million acres of fertile land, becoming an oasis in the desert of Gobi. The first time I saw a fresh cockroach, the color was bright red, the head was big, the taste was sweet, and it was taken directly from the eucalyptus tree. The Chaidamu Basin has 10 hours of sunshine per day. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and the relatively abundant water resources are suitable for the growth of alfalfa. The yield of cockroaches is not low. Visually, there are at least a few hundred fruits on a tree, but be very careful. You need to be careful one by one to avoid damage to the branches.

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Dulan County, under the jurisdiction of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, is located in the southeastern part of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Dulan (meaning 'warm' in Mongolian) is predominantly Han Chinese, with Tibetan, Mongolian, Hui, and Tu ethnic minorities as well. The county government is located in Chahanwusu Town, 205 kilometers from the prefectural capital of Delingha City and 428 kilometers from the provincial capital of Xining City. The administrative area covers 45,270 square kilometers. As of 2021, Dulan County governs 4 towns, 4 townships, and 107 administrative villages; according to the seventh census data, as of November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Dulan County was 68,273 people. Dulan County is located in the southeastern corner of the Qaidam Basin, and its territory can be divided into two types of landforms: the Hanbuda Mountain area and the Qaidam Basin plain. Gobi, desert, valley, river, lake, hill, plateau, and mountain terrains are distributed in sequence. There are more than 40 rivers of various sizes, including the Shaliu River, Tuosu River, and Chahanwusu River. It has a plateau arid continental climate, with an average annual temperature of 2.7°C, the lowest extreme temperature of -29.8°C, and the highest extreme temperature reaching 33°C. The average annual precipitation is 179.1 millimeters. It is one of the top ten resource counties in Qinghai Province, with 2 national key cultural relics protection units, 9 provincial-level key cultural relics protection units, and 1 county-level key cultural relics protection unit. The Reshui tomb complex is located in Reshui Township, Dulan County, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, mostly distributed between altitudes of 3340-3500 meters. Since its discovery in 1982, the Reshui tomb complex has undergone four large-scale archaeological excavations, uncovering nearly a hundred tombs and unearthing artifacts such as silk fabrics, Sogdian gold and silverware, agate beads, red etched beads, copper plate fragments, and copper perfume bottles, which strongly prove that the region was an important node on the Silk Road—Qinghai Route. The excavation of the Reshui tomb complex in Qinghai Dulan is of great significance for the study of the history of the Tubo civilization, the burial forms in the western regions of China during the Tang Dynasty, the cultural exchanges between the local area and Central Asia, as well as discussions on the origins of the Tibetan ethnic group. The Reshui Tubo tomb complex is located about 10 kilometers southeast of Chahanwusu in Dulan County, in Reshui Township. It is an early Tang Dynasty large-scale Tubo tomb complex and is also the first Tubo tomb discovered in China, with more than 200 tombs. The Reshui tomb complex is distributed within a 7-kilometer-long area across the villages of Reshui, Zhamari, Sha'ertang, and Xiewai, including 165 types of tombs, most of which have been looted. From 1982 to 1986, the Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated and organized the site. The tombs in the area are mainly divided into trapezoidal and circular shapes. The tomb mounds are built with rammed earth or covered with rammed earth after being filled with gravel, with layers of sand willow branches laid between the tamping layers. Below the rammed earth, there are stone walls with isosceles trapezoidal planes, with adobe or mud balls laid on the edges, and red stone powder applied on the outside. The tomb chambers are built with stone blocks, consisting of a tomb passage, a central chamber, left and right side chambers, and a rear chamber. The Reshui tomb complex all have earthen seals, and in front of the earthen seals, there are huge sacrificial pits, from which wooden chariots, wooden slips, silk fabrics, glassware, gold and silverware, and other relics have been unearthed. Some of the unearthed objects have a strong Central Asian artistic style. In October 2022, it was learned from the Reshui Joint Archaeological Team that the 2022 archaeological work on the Reshui tomb complex in Qinghai Dulan made new progress. Archaeological experts discovered through protective cleaning and excavation that the 2007QM1 cemetery and the 2018 Xuewei No. 1 tomb have similar forms, and both have comparable scales. The next step is to plan a comprehensive survey of the northern area of the Reshui tomb complex.

It is not unusual to see shells at the beach. It is strange to see the shells that should have appeared on the beach in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it is still a large piece. There is such a shell in the wilderness of Dulan County in the Qaidam Basin of Qinghai. The locals are called shell beams. shell beam, can only be regarded as a small hill, about 2 kilometers long, 70 meters wide, covered with hundreds of millions of large and small shells. The surface of the shell is covered with a thin layer of saline-alkaline soil. After excavation, it is dig 20 meters down, which is a layer of shells. This is by far the largest paleozoic strata found in my inland basin. These shells, big ones have the size of copper coins, small ones have the size of a thumb, and are mixed with the sediment of the saline-alkali land. Looking at the white ones at a distance, it is still spectacular when approaching. According to geologists, the Qaidam Basin was still a vast ocean, the ancient Tethys Sea. Later, the orogenic movement of the seabed became a plateau, and some speculated that these shells were left at that time. However, local geologists in Qinghai have denied this claim. Their research shows that the formation of the shell beams was about 150,000 years ago. The shape of these shells is no different from the current shells. It is not left in ancient times. . Although there is no definitive study to confirm the source of these shells, the geological changes in the sacred fields are an indisputable fact, and here it must have been a place where water and grass are abundant.

The mountains of Qinghai are always bare. Because of the dryness and lack of oxygen, many plants can't grow here, so they also form a unique landform here. Dulan Ranch is very big. We drove for three or four hours. It was just a corner of the ranch. The scenery along the way was beautiful. You can see many precious protected animals, such as Tibetan antelope, groundhog, etc. At night. There are still many wolves here. The landscape here is very strange. There are red, blue, green and white water. Many people think that it is foreign, but I want to say that many of our domestic scenic spots are really no less than foreign scenery. The weather in our days in Qinghai is not good, there will always be some clouds blocking our light. There is a yurt inside Dulan Ranch. We drove to the yurt to eat the whole lamb. Because Haixi is a Mongolian Tibetan autonomous prefecture, it is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural place. Dulan Ranch is a Mongolian style. From the yurt of Dulan Ranch, it takes about 2 hours to drive to the expressway. We drove all the way from four o'clock, fearing that the road was not good after dark, we drove very fast, but Also pay attention to safety. The sun slowly landed, the light became softer and softer, and the grass on the side of the road was very gorgeous.