qinghai province is a sparking jewel set on the northwest plateau of china, wherein the yangtze river, the yellow river as well as the mekong river take their source. the scenic quality of qinghai's widely varying landscape is superb and enticing, offering from the ranges of gleaming mountains with glacier-capped peaks over 6000 meters high to the gobi desert dunes of qaidam, from lush ranchland to the sapphire-like lakes of vast area, all this has created a land of marvel, mystery and diversity.

　　qinghai lake is a photographer and artist's paradise of mirrored pastel sunrises, azure beauty in midday and the indigo blues of sunset. the bird island on the western tip hosts hundreds of thousand migrate birds, hovering over the sky or diving into the water. great lamasery of kumbum (taer lamasery), still one of the living and the most important for believers, was built in 1560. with tsongkhapa, who found the yellow sect of lamas and was born in here, all solemn religious celebrations observed here to his honor. the excellent collection in kumbum are an eyeful of classic chinese-tibetan architecture which has been preserved in best condition for centuries and its three typical tibetan supreme arts developed by kumbum's lama artists, that is evident in yak butter sculpture, frescoes and embossed embroidery.

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