Huge Sand Formation Reported Southwest of Xining, China
© 2011 by Linda Moulton Howe
“… very quite regular, straight lines form the perfect circle
and the diameter of a rough estimate of 1 to 2 kilometers (.62 to 1.24 miles).”
– Chinese traveler on Qinghai Highway southwest of Xining, China
One of several images posted August 17, 2011, at Chinese website, Awaker.net.
Xining, Qinghai, China (upper right red circle). Red road is the Qinghai Highway.
The Awaker.net news story says the huge lines and circles pressed into
sand is at a remote location about three hours from Xining towards Tibet on the
Qinghai Highway. Madoi (middle red circle) is about 200 miles southwest of
Xining and might be the region of the sand formation.
The Tibet border is the orange/red boundary line south of Madoi.
Lhasa, Tibet, is the bottom left red circle.
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