Self-driving Tour Destination: The Last Tear of the Atlantic - Sayram Lake

🌈Attractions: Distant mountains like eyebrows, lake light like a mirror! 🕐️Opening Hours: All day 🚗Travel Tips: Self-driving with friends. Planning a route is time-consuming and laborious, Xinjiang is vast and driving is exhausting, leaving no energy to enjoy after arriving, and the expenses are high. Buying attraction tickets is particularly troublesome, hotels are either hard to book or very expensive, and some scenic spots have visitor restrictions, making the trip exhausting both physically and mentally. The only advantage is that there is no time restriction, and you can take beautiful photos. 💗Other tips: Why is Sayram Lake called 'The Last Tear of the Atlantic'? Sayram Lake, known as 'Jinghai' in ancient times, is located in a high mountain basin in the western section of the Tianshan Mountains, more than 90 kilometers southwest of Bole City in Bortala Prefecture, Xinjiang, adjacent to Huocheng County in Yili Prefecture. The lake is at an altitude of 2071.9 meters, 30 kilometers long from east to west, 25 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of 453 square kilometers, with an average depth of 46.4 meters and the deepest point reaching 106 meters, making it the highest altitude and largest alpine cold water lake in Xinjiang. The lake water is mainly replenished by groundwater, in addition to some small rivers around it, and has a slightly salty taste, belonging to a brackish lake. The vegetation around the lake is characterized by widespread grasslands and forests, with spruce forests being the main forest around the lake, with straight trunks, vigorous and towering, layered, forming a tower forest. Inside the forest shade, there are birch forests, rowan, hawthorn, and other tree species; This place has lush water plants and is an excellent pasture. The lake freezes in late December each year and thaws in May of the following year. In summer, the lakeside is lush with forests and clear streams, the grass is thick and the flowers are abundant, the vast grassland is dotted with tents, cattle and sheep are in herds, and horses are galloping, composing a moving pastoral landscape painting. Sayram Lake is the last place cherished by the warm and humid air currents of the Atlantic, hence it is called 'The Last Tear of the Atlantic'; According to legend, Sayram Lake was formed by the tears of a young couple who died for love, and is also known as 'Heavenly Pool' and 'Milk Sea'.