Qinghai Welcomes TouristsThe mysterious Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is beckoning more domestic and overseas tourists to "the roof of the world" as summer vacation begins, China Daily reported on July 10.While most provinces in Central and East China are enduring days of scorching heat, the unique plateau climate in Qinghai Province provides tourists with very pleasant cool days, its average temperature being 19-27 centigrade in summer. Wu Youzhong, vice-director of the Qinghai Provincial Tourism Administration, said his hometown will become a popular travel site for its local natural landscapes, religious culture and ethnic folklore. To draw tourists to this highest region in the world, local travel services will open 12 travel routes, such as an adventurous tour by bus, a South Silk Road tour (from Beijing to Tash Kurghan), trekking around Anyemaqen Mountain, the Yangtze River and a Yellow River rafting tour. From July 1 to August 31, the local government will hold several tourism festivals, including a horse-race festival in Yushu, a Hua'er Assemble (singing in antiphonal style) in Xining and four lamaism ceremonies at Ta'er Lamasery. Qinghai's widely varying landscape is superb and enticing, offering snow-capped peaks rising 6,000 metres above sea level, Gobi desert dunes of Qaidam, lush ranchland and vast sapphire-like lakes. "We are doing it to pull off the mysterious veil and let more people understand our natural tourism resources and culture," Wu said. |
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