Legend: There is a legend about the formation of Chaerhan Salt Lake. A long time ago, Chaerhan was full of gold, silver and jewels, but the monsters did not fulfill their responsibilities and fought for treasures all the year round, which brought great disasters to people here. The Queen Mother of the West, who lives in the depths of Kunlun Mountain, was very angry when she learned this. She ordered Tianshui, the god of water, to drown all these treasures so that no one could get them. Thus, Chaerhan Salt Lake appeared here.
Of course, this is just a legend. In fact, Chaerhan Salt Lake was formed by the ancient ocean passing through the crustal changes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, separated by peaks, and gradually shrinking and drying up. Because the salt lake is located in the Gobi desert, the climate is hot and dry, the sunshine time is long, and the water evaporation is much higher than the precipitation. Coupled with long-term wind and sun exposure, high-concentration brine is formed in the lake, which gradually crystallizes into salt particles, while the lake panel forms a thick salt layer, which is extremely hard.
Topography: The terrain around the salt lake is flat and the desert is boundless, but the scenery is strange. The whole lake seems to be a fertile soil that has just been reclaimed. Like fish scales, layer by layer, wave by wave, but unfortunately there is no green grass on the land, no fish in the lake, no birds in the sky, and there is silence. Uncover the thick salt layer, coral-like salt flowers, like silver trees after snow, shine gracefully in brine, clean as jade; Exquisite tower salt columns, with different shapes, are swaying and blurred; The yellow-green salt lake is rippling in the microwave, picturesque, and it is amazing to be in Huxian.
When the weather is sunny, the vast lake is like a huge treasure mirror, emitting silver light, steaming and sparkling, really like a blue ocean.
The famous Zhang Wan Salt Bridge is located in Chaerhan Salt Lake, which is a section of highway from Golmud to Dunhuang passing through Dabson Lake. The bridge thickness is 15? The salt cover of18m forms a natural salt bridge with a total length of 32km, about10km, so people call it "10km salt bridge". The whole road surface is flat and straight, and the salt lake is divided into two by Yanqiao Road, which is amazing.