world's largest salt lake
cover salt hotels to attract tourists
To attract tourists, local people using local resources in the lake and built a salt hotel. Fear of pollution of the environment, the hotel was closed, the original museum building was converted into salt for visitors. To meet the mental adventure tourists, locals and gradually built a seat in the lake" salt room." Use of dry salt lake formed in the hard layer, the locals will be processed into a thick block of" salt bricks," with straw and mud brick walls, wood and straw and then do the roof. Usually four or five local people can take 2 to 3 weeks of salt into a room. In addition to the roof and windows of salt room, the walls and inside the room furnishings, including beds, tables, chairs and other furniture are made of salt blocks. Roof and windows to use other materials are mainly afraid of the rain soaked, thereby preventing the collapse of salt melting room.
salt of this hospitality room visitors are small, generally also a few rooms. Like an ordinary hotel room, standard room, which placed two of salt beds. Bed fee by the owner to the tourists, per bed per night range from 10-15 U.S. dollars. Because of high terrain, the local temperature difference between day and night, daytime temperatures approaching 20 degrees, night temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees. Hotel no heat, in order to cold, all covered with a thick bed of camel skins, lying on top and then covered with a thick sheepskin rug camel, so that visitors so as not to wake up middle of the night was cold.
Most tourists come here to stay curious anomaly, and the total salt lick room walls or furniture to try the" taste" or a meal to knock down a small piece of the table salt added to food in the idea. However, the provisions of the master salt room," Do not lick the walls and furniture." In fact, the tables and seats are hard like a rock, even some powder down Xiangnong difficult.
transport is the system Yuewuyouni bottleneck for further development of tourism salt lake, the local government had planned to build the airport on the salt, but the study by experts, aircraft tire and the friction surface will produce salt air expansion, and" Runway" will be eroded, so the final choice a few kilometers away from the place where salt build an airport. However, due to funding problems, this airport has not yet started when the exact information.
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