Address: Mengda Country, Xunhua County 811100, China
Attraction Location
Mengda Nature Reserve Videos
The Salar Ethnic Minority - Islam in China // This is Western China
Mengda Heavenly Lake, or Mengda Tianchi is in the Xunhua Salar Autonomous Region. This area has the largest number of Salar people in China. The Salar people are an ethnic minority. They are usually Muslim, and they first came over to China from the area that is now Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. I discuss the people as we hike around the Mengda Nature Reserve.
If you are in the Xunhua area, you can reach Mengda Tianchi by private car. We paid a driver (who approached us by the bus station) 100 RMB (around $15) to take us there, wait for 3 hours, and take us back to Xunhua. The day was a bit wet and foggy, but the 2 and a half hour hike (to the lake, around it, and back down) was pleasant and not too challenging.
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