The lake is a fresh water one. Many lakes in Tibet are salty and produce salt to be exported to Nepal and northern India. The beautiful Lake Cuo'e in the Northern Tibet. Besides 20,000 brown headed gulls, there are spotted headed wild geese, cormorants, black-necked cranes and other rare birds. Tibetans love horse races.
Horse race is an important sport event.
People come from hundred miles away to celebrate, trade, and enjoy themself. A Tibetan open market in the grassland. A Tibetan transportation team in the grassland. Most materials are still moved this way. Lake Namtso, or 'Celestial Lake', at 4,718 meters above sea level, is the largest body of water that high in the world.