Dunhuang

The city of Dunhuang, in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an oasis at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Dunhuang was one of the first trading cities encountered by merchants arriving in […]

Shazhou Night Market is located in the center of the Dunhuang city, which is the largest night market in Dunhuang. Shazhou Night Market is becoming more and more popular among Chinese and foreign tourists. Whenever the night falls, tourists from all over the world gather here, making the street extremely lively. Shazhou Night Market consists […]

 As you know ,Shifting sand and a clear spring are two natural sights which are hardly ever found together at the same place .However ,at Dunhuang ,unusual sand hills and a beautiful spring have combined to set a new style in lovely scenes for sightseers .Local and foreign tourists alike are fascinated by it . […]

Dunhuang Museum is a local three-storied museum for keeping cultural relics of Dunhuang area. A group of carved figures depicting people leading their camels as they travel along the Silk Road stands in front of the museum. The exhibit which covers the period from primitive society to the end of the Qing Dynasty can be […]

The nine-storied White Horse Pagoda with a height of 12 meters is a uniquely shaped spectacular architecture that is a leading site among the tourist attractions in Dunhuang. Built in the Qing Dynasty, the White Horse Pagoda, with a typical style of lama pagoda of Ming Dynasty, has been renovated multiple times throughout years. The […]

Yadan National Geologic Park is famous for its largest scale of Yadan Landforms, fully developing into the most valuable ornament in the world. “Yadan,” which refers to a precipitous hillock in the Uygur language, is a kind of wind-eroded landform. Yadan landforms rise above the flat Gobi Desert and cover a vast area. Due to […]

Yangguan is a place where ancient Chinese land roads were used for external traffic, and the only pass along the South Silk Road, located near the antique beach in the southwest of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. After the Song Dynasty, due to the gradual decline of transportation with the West and land, the pass was […]

The West Thousand Buddha Caves is located in the west of Mogao Grottoes (or Thousand Buddha Caves). It is about 35 kilometers from the downtown area of Dunhuang. It was dug on the cliffs of the Danghe River bank since Northern Wei Dynasty. It is also an important part of ancient Dunhuang art. According to […]

Nowadays, tourists could still find the preserved sections of the Great Walls built in the Han Dynasty in the northern area of Dunhuang. With the destruction of wind and sand in last two thousand years, part of the Great Wall was razed to the ground while the most have been preserved well. Among them, the […]

Yulin Cave is located 70 kilometers south of Guazhou County (formerly Anxi County), Gansu Province. The cave was chiseled on the east-west cliffs on sides of the Yulin River Canyon. Due to large elm forest on the river bank, the cave is named as Yulin Cave. When the Yulin Cave was built is unknown. However […]

The Jade Gate Pass is also called the Small Square Tray City, known in Chinese as Xiaofangpancheng. Towering on a sandstone ridge some 100 kilometers to the northwest of Dunhuang .built of rammed yellow earth, is well kept with two gates opened at west and north, Standing 10 meters high with 3meters in width at the top […]

Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao are famous for their statues and wall paintings, spanning 1,000 years of Buddhist art. Carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River, the Mogao Caves […]