Once belonging to Tibet, what is now the province of Qinghai (literally “Blue Ocean”) is the fourth largest of the Chinese provinces and is composed of a plateau of medium height, at 3,000 metres, where some of the major rivers of Asia have their source: the Huang He (the Yellow River), the Chang Jiang (the Blue River), the Za Chu (the Mekong). In historical and cultural terms, Qinghaiis part of the Tibetan world; in the eighth century, the princess Wen Cheng passed through here when she was sent by her father, the Chinese Emperor of the Tang dynasty, to marry the Tibetan king Songtsen Guampo, to whom she brought a present of an ancient statue of Buddha, which is still conserved in the temple of Jokhang in Lhasa.

In 1954, the primitive track linking China and Tibet was transformed by the Chinese through the labour of Tibetan political convicts, into the highest road in the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway.

Effectively this unwinds at a height of over 4,000 metres among boundless steppes and prairies, traversing several passes of over 5,000 metres. This is where the nomad shepherds live, with herds of thousands of goats, sheep and yaks.

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