Menyuan Hui Autonomous County

A plateau county famous for its vast fields of rapeseed flowers, which blend with snow mountains around July.

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County lies in the Menyuan Basin in the east of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the eastern Qilian Mountains, with the Hamen River flowing through; Hui, Han, Tibetan and other peoples live here. Around July, vast stretches of rapeseed flowers bloom across the basin against snow peaks such as Gangshika, making a spectacular scene, and the forests and canyons around Xianmi are also worth a visit. Summer is the best season, and winters are cold and long. The Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway has a Menyuan Station, and you can also self-drive from Xining by road and continue north to Qilian.

Destinations

• Menyuan

Itineraries

• Menyuan, Qilian, Qinghai Lake & Chaka Loop – Head north to the Menyuan flower seas and Qilian grasslands, then loop around the north shore of Qinghai Lake to Chaka.
• Qinghai-Gansu Grand Loop Classic Route – A closed-loop route starting from Xining, circling Qinghai Lake, Qaidam, Dunhuang, the Hexi Corridor, and the Qilian Mo…