{"id":5765,"date":"2011-08-12T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2011-08-12T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:55:55","slug":"luqu-my-trip-to-luqu-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/gansu-travel\/xiahe-travel\/luqu-my-trip-to-luqu-county","title":{"rendered":"Luqu, My Trip to Luqu County"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Luqu is a county under the administration of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province. It is located in the southwest of Gansu and on the edge of the east of Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau at the cross borders among Gansu, Qinghai<\/span> <\/a>and Sichuan. It has a population of over 30,000 with 84% being Tibetans.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A large part of Luqu county is at the sea level between 2900 and 4287 with the yearly average temperature at 2.3 degree and the sunshine time of 2222 – 2351 hours. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Luqu County is about 78km away from Hezuo<\/a><\/span>, the capital city of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province. Langmusi Town is under the administration of Luqu, 90km to the southeast of Luqu.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Luqu” in Tiebtan literally means “Tao River”, one of the important tributaries of Yellow River<\/span>.<\/a> Tao River is 673km long with its headwater originating from\u00a0Luqu and\u00a0Qinghai, passing through Luqu ( 330km long in Luqu ),\u00a0and entering Liujiaxia Reservior, which is linked to Yellow River. Tao River also has many small tributaries, like White Dragon River in Langmusi.<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Luqu is a town on the fringe of Tibetan-Qinghai Plaetau with green alpine meadows in the west and the Tao River in the east. Two third of\u00a0Luqu county is suitable for <\/span>grazing livestock, like sheep and yak.\u00a0Along the\u00a0Tao River area, a patch of land is developed for agriculture. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Luqu has rich tourism resources with unique ethic features – Gahai Lake<\/span>,<\/a> Zecha Stone Forest, and Langmusi.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Linked by National Highway No.213, Luqu is incorporated in the golden travel route of Xiahe<\/span>,<\/a> Langmus<\/span>i<\/a>, Ruoergai<\/span>,<\/a> Jiuzhaigou<\/span>.<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n
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Now we enter the border of Luqu from Hezuo along National Highway No.213.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now we enter the border of Luqu from Hezuo along National Highway No.213.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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We are amazed by the alpine meadows along the National Highway No.213 within the border of Luqu.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We are amazed by the alpine meadows along the National Highway No.213 within the border of Luqu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Alpine meadows and grassland wildflowers<\/span><\/div>\n
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Alpine meadows and grassland wildflowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Gahai Lake is the largest fresh water lake in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, an important wetland in the east of Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau. Gahai Lake is a part of the National Gahai Zecha Natural Reserve. Gahai Lake is under the administration of Luqu County, which is situated 90km north of <\/span>Langmmsi <\/span><\/span><\/a>and 260km south of <\/span>Lanzhou.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Gahai Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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With a population of over 3,000, the town is\u00a0now mainly\u00a0inhabited by Tibetans, Han and hui. The town of Langmusi is only composed of one main street\u00a0with a streem known as \u201cWhite Dragon River\u201d passing by the street. The area of north of the streem belongs to Gansu Province ( Under the administration of Luqu )\u00a0while the south to Sichuan.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Langmusi Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0 Luqu is a county under the administration of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu Province. It is located in the southwest of Gansu and on the edge of the east of Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau at the cross borders among Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan. It has a population of over 30,000 with 84% being Tibetans. \u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1357,1350,1343],"tags":[1364,1365],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hezuo-travel","category-langmusi-travel","category-xiahe-travel","tag-how-to-visit-luqu","tag-how-to-visit-luqu-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}