Qinling Mountain: Daye Lake

In the previous blogs posts, I have mentioned a few beautiful mountains of Beijing during the Beijing Xian tour, today I will introduce you another important mountain in Shaanxi Province—Mt. Qinling.

With an elevation of 3,590 meters above sea level, Daye Lake is the most highest alpine lake in China’s mainland. But it is much more a mysterious and quieter lake of immortal.

The depth of the lake is a mystery. The bone-chilling cold and the changing climate make it more difficult to dive in Daye Lake than in the South Pole and the North Pole. For years, many people have tried to test the depth of this “lake of immortal”, but all return without accomplishing anything, and some even sacrificed for their lives.

How did the lake come into being? It is still a mystery. Because no one has tested the geological structure of the lakebed. It is generally acknowledged that Daye Lake is developed from a glacier-fed lake of the Quaternary ice age 60,000 years ago.

The living beings of the lake is unknown up to now. Experts have conducted various researches to the lake only to find there is no fishes or shrimps living in. But legend has it that there is a kind of bird that will eat the sundries on the lake away, therefore it is called “the water cleaner ”.

In order to experience the so-called mystery, during this Xian tour package , I went to the mysterious and tranquil “lake of immortal”.