Qinghai: Heidu & Yanzhi Mountain, July 2025

Just opposite the Lenghu Oil Base is the lonely and desolate black mountain desert of Heidu Mountain 黑独山.  It resembles a majestic black and white Chinese ink painting spread out in the brown Gobi Desert and has only recently been developed (in 2025) into a tourist site.  I was told that the black yadan here […]