First bend of Yellow River (Chinese: 黃河第一彎) is located at the common border of Sichuan (四川) province, Qinghai (青海) province and Gansu (甘肅) province of China, but Zoigê County (Tibetan: མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།) is deemed to be the best place to enjoy its sunrise.
The hotel where Choumeizai lives is just next to the lookout, but still need to get up at 5 in the morning.
Many tourists have already stood at the top of the hill, waiting for the sunrise.The altitude here is around 3,500 meters, the air is quite thin, Choumeizai needs to walk slowly.
First Bend of the Yellow River is located on the Maqu (Tibetan: མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།) county in the Gansu province, Maqu means the Yellow River in Tibetan.
The Yellow River here originates from Bayan Har Mountains (巴顏喀拉山) in Qinghai Province. ‘Bayan Har’ in Mongolian means ‘Rich and Black’.
