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Plan your Qinghai Tour in Autumn? With Xining as its capital city, Qinghai...
Qinghai has a varied landscapes and diversity of ethic minorities such as Tibetans, Mogols, Hui, Tu, and Goloks with great religious life. This vast Qinghai is home to myriad Tibetan monasteries, magic grasslands, also the headwaters of the three of Asia largest rivers - the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and Mekong River.
The best time to visit Qinghai are summer and autumn. If you are looking for the best places for fall foliage in Qinghai, we are going to reveal you the best places to see the autumn leaves in Qinghai. The best time to visit autumn leaves in Qinghai falls on October each year.
The Dalong Valley is ringed by the mountains all sides with the valley sprawling from east to west. Over 20 households live in the valley. It is a laid back and idyllic place, beautiful mountains and water, and soul-recharge fresh air. The valley has a myriad species of plants and flowers. This is an anachronistic hamlet. When autumn comes, Dalong turns itself into a fairyland of colors.

Guide is well known for the Guide National Geopark ( or Huangheqing National Geopark) within the county. The national geopark features a varied splendor of landscapes - low basins and hills, cascades of rivers, loess, high mountains and a spider web of valleys, a magnificent wetland in the northwest China. When autumn comes, Guide change its colors and becomes a wonderful land.
Huzhu Beishan National Forest Geopark is located in the northeast of Huzu, about 11o km to the northeast of Xining. The park covers an area of 1127 square km at the altitude of 2100 m - 4300 m with 64.3% forest coverage, one of the perfect natural eco-systems in Qinghai. The park features a varied vertical spread of plants including alpine meadows, high mountain bushes, and coniferous forest.
Huzhu Beishan National Forest Geopark comprises 5 major scenic areas including Yuanpudaban, Langshidang, Kasuo Gorge, Zhalong Valley and Xiahe. The park also boasts the highest volcanic relics, creating a magical landscapes in the park - volcanic lava, glaciers, and Danxia landform. Zhalong Valley in the park is the best place to experience the autumn leaves when falls arrives at the park.

The forest park is a natural forest farm with a magnificent landscape, a long and deep water gorge flanked by the densely forested slopes with a varied species of plants and flowers. Autumn entices a consistent flow of visitors to comfort their eyes with the colorful autumn leaves.

Golmud diversifoliu poplar forest was authorized as a provincial natural reserve in Qinghai. It is said that the diversifoliu poplar trees have unusual vitality that enable them to survive for 3,000 years by "living for one thousand years, standing still for another one thousand years after death, and remaining not rotten for one thousand years". The spectacular view of the autumn diversifoliu trees are stunning!

The garden is divided into two parts - Upper the Mountain and Down the Mountain. It is a modern park featuring sightseeing, scientific research, education, landscaping and endangered species protection. It is definitely a wonderful place for leaf peeping in autumn.

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