Attractions

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 […]

Gansu is blessed with diversified tourist resources. Except for oceans and islands, other landforms in the rest of the country can all be found in Gansu. It is known as a birthplace of the Chinese civilization, a big museum of natural wonders, a fascinating gallery of folk customs, and an ideal destination of leisure tours. […]

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 […]

Labrang monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Geluk (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. Labrang is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, and also considered to be in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside of Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe […]

Xiahe County (Chinese:夏河县; Tibetan:བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. The name (both Chinese and Tibetan), which literally means “Xia River”, refers to the Daxia River which runs through the county. It is home to the famed Labrang Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one of the […]

Tianshui, city, southeastern Gansu sheng (province), north-central China. It is situated along the Wei River and was historically an important place along the Silk Road, the great route westward from Chang’an (present-day Xi’an, Shaanxi province) to Central Asia and Europe. This route is today followed by a highway and by the Longhai Railway, which was […]

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 […]

The nominated property is located in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, western China. Centered on Su’nan Yugur Autonomous County, it also extends slightly into Linze County and Ganzhou District. Overall, it lies in the transitional zone between the foreland fault belt on the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Hexi Corridor, at the junction […]