Dunhuang Desert Castle Hotel, a thousand-year view of the Gobi Desert

Dunhuang is both big and prosperous. When I came to Dunhuang, pictures of its vast deserts, long rivers, and vast emptiness have been searched for in my dreams. What really surprised me was the resort hotels here. Each of them is huge, like a small aircraft carrier, crawling on the ground. In the desert dust of Dunhuang. Especially the Dunhuang Villa, its rough appearance and geographical environment reflect the Dunhuang legend of thousands of years of Buddha light flowing and the sun setting over the long river.

The hotel is located in the Mingsha Mountain Scenic Area, surrounded by ancient desert roads, covering an area of ??200,000 square meters and a designed construction area of ??38,000 square meters. The entrance to the hotel is a majestic Western Region Border Gate Tower. The earth-yellow rough mudstone exterior wall is majestic and majestic, and it is integrated with the desert style of Mingsha Mountain. There happened to be a motorcade display when we went there, and the off-road Land Rover displayed in front of the city tower temporarily broke the thousand-year-old ancient sentiment.

The hotel lobby is tall and spacious, three stories high. The design of eight large stone pillars and 24 large shadow puppet palace lanterns makes people feel like they are in the palaces of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The wall behind the front desk is a map of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions. , the scrolls of the Silk Road surrounded the entire hall, filled with the thousand-year Buddhist charm of the Mogao Grottoes.

Dunhuang Villa was established in 1995. I vaguely remember seeing its introduction on CCTV. At that time, my impression of it was like watching a Western movie. I couldn’t believe it was a hotel.

Dunhuang Villa has more than 200 guest rooms and six private courtyard villas. Although the villa is huge and has a heavy and majestic appearance, the guest rooms behind the earth and stone castle are not large, and the narrow window corridors have ancient defensive features. Each courtyard in the backyard is about 400 square meters. The green brick courtyard is spacious, and one window is full of the vast desert. The decoration is full of Dunhuang and northwest traditional atmosphere.

There are many weeping willows and green plants planted in the backyard of the hotel, which is very eye-catching and comfortable in this place full of yellow sand and Gobi. A large open-air high-stage theater is also located in the backyard, with fixed performances that travel through time and space in the evening.

Star-catching pavilion is an open-air restaurant on the top floor of the main building of the villa. Star-catching means that you can see the desert for thousands of years at a glance during the day, and you can see the Milky Way and the sea of ??stars at night. Here, whether it is a cup of coffee or a plate of delicious food, it is the ancient feeling of the sun rising and setting and the stars reversing.

One kilometer away from Dunhuang Villa is Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring, one of the eight scenic spots in Dunhuang. Tickets for the scenic spots can be used unlimited times for two consecutive days, and free bicycles are provided in the hotel.

The sand peaks of Mingsha Mountain are undulating like ribbons. The sand grains are fine and soft. The wind-sand is scattered and the roaring sound is called "Sand Ridge Qingming".

Crescent Moon Spring, "the first spring in the desert", is as curved as a crescent moon. Because of the growth of eye grass and charophytes, and the dense reeds in the spring, it has become a piece of jasper in the desert quicksand. "Eternal sand will not fill the spring." , the spring never dries up." It all depends on nature.

In the high and low deserts, the long and winding procession of camels carrying tourists looks like colorful lace inlaid on the sand mountains. There are tourist helicopters flying back and forth in the sky, mountain bikes jumping and galloping in the Gobi Desert, and the iron men in the sky and on the ground breaking the thousand-year loneliness here.

The soft quicksand outlines a silk-like outline. The Crescent Moon Spring water is originally colorless, but the yellow sand is yellow, the sky is blue, and the vegetation is green. The quicksands of Mingsha Mountain are ringing, and the Crescent Moon Spring is as level as a mirror. The two complement each other and are truly "the most beautiful scenery outside the Great Wall."

SophyJiang Wei Lvhua: The best scenery in Chongxin is in the bowl, and I only share the scenery, food and accommodation with interesting souls.