Menyuan Rape Flowers
With summer on the way and temperatures climbing, it is the time to get out and see flowers. Southern China has several areas famous for golden rape flowers. There is one place that cannot to be mentioned, that is Menyuan County, where golden rape flowers are flourishing most in July.
Menyuan County, located in Qinghai Province, has an altitude of 3,200 meters which delays the cycle of its flowers. About 400 million square meters of rape flowers blossom around Qinghai Lake.
In early July, golden rape flowers are in full bloom from the Qingshizui to the Xianmi gorges. The rape land in Qingshizui is flat and open, running southward directly to the foot of Qilian Mountain. Except for a few houses and the snow-capped Qilian Mountain, thousands of hectares of rape land reveal the same color, like a great piece of nugget. The golden world of Menyuan County is famous for its vast green fields and yellow rapeseed flowers. The Menyuan rape flower fields are famous for their bright yellow rape flower fields that come into bloom in late spring. In that time, the annual Rape Flower Festival will be held in Menyuan. It looks like the heaven of peace in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.
Admission fee: RMB 20/person (View point)
Opening hours: Form June to September
Transportation
It takes 40 Yuan from Xining coach station to Menyuan.