The Best road trip Route in Northwest China

The northwest area of China is very large, with special and complicated geographical and natural environment, and few people live there. This is an excellent place for self-driving exploration, attracting young self-driving enthusiasts from Dabo every year. This is a detailed route of road trip.

Self-driving along the Silk Road

The Silk Road is an overland commercial and trade corridor connecting the hinterland of China and Europe. It was formed from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD and remained in use until the 16th century. It is the main road of economic, political and cultural exchanges between East and West.

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D1: Xi 'an An Tour

Datang West City Museum, Bell and Drum Tower Square, the landmark building in downtown Xi 'an; Huimin snack street, free to taste Xi' an's time-honored specialty snacks: beef and mutton steamed buns, cold rice noodles, meat buns and so on.

D2: Shaanxi History Museum-Grand Jionji-Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum

Visit the 113, fine cultural relics unearthed in Shaanxi, vividly and systematically display the Shaanxi History Museum from 1.15 million years ago to 184 AD, visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda Tang Culture Square, enjoy the largest waterscape music fountain square in Asia, take a bus to Lintong after lunch and visit the eighth wonder of the world-Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum;

Visit the earliest, most complete, highest-grade and best-made bronze wares in China-Pits 1, 2 and 3 of Terracotta Warriors and Horses: bronze chariots and horses exhibition hall; Visit Qin Shihuang Mausoleum and Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Ruins Park.

D3: Xi' an-Tianshui (35km one-way from Xi' an to Tianshui)

Go to Famen Temple Cultural Scenic Area, where the Buddhist relics collect the Buddhist holy land of Sakyamuni Buddha, enjoy the 148m folding stupa, pay tribute to the unique phalanx relics of the Buddha, and reproduce the splendid Buddhist landscape in the prosperous times. Then, take a bus to Tianshui and enjoy the natural scenery along the way!

D4: Maijishan-Fuxi Temple

Go to Maijishan Grottoes, which is known as the Oriental Sculpture Museum. Maijishan is named after the mountain is like a mound where farmers grow wheat, surrounded by trees, with quiet environment and beautiful scenery. It is the best place among many grottoes in China.

Among them, there are seven buddha Pavilion, Wanfo Cave, Niuertang and Fuling. Are the most famous). Then, visit Fuxi Temple, the first ancestral temple in China, which is the largest and best-preserved Ming Dynasty building complex in China, in memory of Fu, one of the ancient "Huang San".

D5: Tianshui-Lanzhou (31km from Tianshui to Lanzhou)

Tianshui takes a bus to Lanzhou and visits the Gansu Provincial Museum. This is a comprehensive museum. From Cretaceous fossil specimens to Paleolithic and Neolithic painted pottery cultures; Bronzes and ceramic jade articles from Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Silk Road civilization in Han and Tang Dynasties; Including Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing porcelains, wood carvings, silks, paintings, etc.

On October 1, 21, Lanzhou took a bus to Wuwei to visit Leitai Han Tomb. In 1969, local farmers discovered a large masonry tomb in the late Eastern Han Dynasty under the old pagoda tree in Leitai. Unearthed tourist signs of China, national treasures, swallows riding horses, and 99 pieces of bronze chariots and horses and fighters (ceremonies of chariots and horses warriors) formed a well-equipped bronze chariot cavalry phalanx in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which became famous at home and abroad.

Then visit the Wuwei Confucian Temple, also known as the Confucian Temple and Confucius Temple, the largest Confucius Temple in northwest China, which was built to worship Confucius, a great thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period. Known as the "crown of study in northwest China" in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is a holy place for Liangzhou literati to worship Confucius, the largest and most well-preserved Confucius temple in northwest China, and one of the three largest Confucius temples in China.

D6: Lanzhou-Wuwei (Lanzhou-Wuwei is 28 kilometers one way)

Wuwei takes a bus to visit Zhangye's colorful Danxia. Danxia landform wonders were formed 6 million years ago, located in Linze and Sunan counties of Zhangye City, covering an area of about 51 square kilometers.

is the only compound area of Danxia landform and colorful hilly landscape in China, and it was rated as one of the seven most beautiful Danxia landforms in China by chinese national geography magazine.

from 21 to 21, Zhang Qian visited Jiayuguan Gate Tower, which was the westernmost starting point of Wan Li Great Wall in Ming Dynasty, an important military fortress on the Great Wall Line, the first pass in Hexi and the only pass on the ancient Silk Road. As we all know,

D7: Wuwei-Zhangye (24 kilometers one way from Wuwei to Zhangye)

Jiayuguan went to Dunhuang to visit the desert wonder Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring. Riding a camel, you can enjoy the magical beauty of sand and springs. Sand does not cover springs, springs do not dry up, and the charm of sand skiing or skydiving is endless.

D8: Zhangye-Jiayuguan (one-way trip from Zhangye to Jiayuguan is 26 kilometers)

Go to Yangguan, which is the throat of ancient land transportation in China and the only way of the Southern Silk Road. Located near the antique beach in the southwest of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. The pass of the Western Han Dynasty was named because it was located in the south of Yumen Pass.

Yumenguan was the gateway of transportation in the western regions at that time. After the tour, visit Yumen Pass: Yumen Pass, also known as Pan Xiaofang, is located on a sand dune 9 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang City. Guancheng, square and well-preserved, is the throat of the Silk Road leading to the North Road.

Visiting the ghost town of Ya Dan: Ya Dan Uygur language, which means the mound with steep walls, is a wind erosion landform in arid areas. Dunhuang people are commonly known as "ghost towns", hence the name "Ya Dan ghost town".

This Ya Dan landform community far exceeds the scale and shape defined in the dictionary, and its individual and overall scale and peculiar shape are rare in the world. You can enjoy the scenery along the way halfway. After the tour, stay in the hotel and have a rest!

D9: Jiayuguan-Dunhuang (Jiayuguan-Dunhuang is 37km one way)

After breakfast, visit the Mogao Grottoes, a world-famous treasure house of cultural heritage and Buddhist art, which was founded in the second year of Fu Jian in the former Qin Dynasty (AD 366). It has 492 caves, more than 45, square meters of murals and more than 2, colorful statues. It is an art hall integrating ancient buildings, sculptures and murals, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Cave.

Nine-color Gannan, self-driving on Luoke Road

Zuiyan Road, which won the gold medal of the central humanities line with the highest number of votes in the self-driving route selection in 215, is listed as one of the 36 self-driving routes in China. It is the road that makes Gary Locke, the first explorer in northwest China, linger, and it is the road that makes today's go on road trip passengers marvel. It is the most beautiful self-driving route in the world.

From Hezuo to Zhuoni, 1 kilometers along the provincial highway S36 is a world-class landscape, with rolling grasslands, quiet temples and quiet snow-capped mountains. The picturesque scenery is awe-inspiring. In particular, the road is full of fun, cattle and sheep cross, and there is no danger. It is a golden route for experienced travelers to linger.

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D1: Yangguan-Yumenguan-Yadan (9km one-way from Dunhuang to Yumenguan)

Arrived in Lanzhou and visited Zhongshan Railway Bridge, which is known as the first bridge of the Yellow River in the world; At present, the most beautiful sculpture of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, is the mother of the Yellow River. After that, I visited the ancient water car park, Lanzhou water car, also known as "crown car", "rollover car", "irrigation car" and "tiger car", which originated in the Ming Dynasty.

D11: Mogao Grottoes

Go to Xiahe to visit Labuleng Temple, one of the six ancestral temples of Tibetan Buddhism. Buleng Temple is one of the six major temples of Tibetan Buddhism and the largest temple in Ganqing area. Its magnificent hall, simple and tidy monk's house, lamas coming and going, dressed in humanistic robes, devout Tibetans walking around the prayer wheel, reading scriptures.

Let you be in a Buddhist country and feel the profoundness of Tibetan Buddhism. After that, I visited the beautiful grassland of Sang Ke, which was helped by the legendary Tibetan hero King Gelsall, and rode my horse and whip to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the grassland, and planned to cooperate.

D1: Lanzhou

takes the road of Locke again! Along the way, visit one of Amdo's famous Tibetan Buddhist temples, the magnificent Mirage Bafo Pavilion, which has nine floors. It is dedicated to the founders of various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, mainly Mirariba and his disciples. There are 172 Buddha statues, bodhisattvas, protectors and other Buddha statues dominated by King Kong.

The scenery of Nida Yugou, a century-old Tibetan village in Niba Village, makes you feel the beauty of tranquility. After a hundred years of vicissitudes, Niba Tibetan Village still retains a strong religious atmosphere. Its architectural format is unique, well preserved, and its scale and momentum are quite spectacular. Then cross Guanggai Mountain and go to the natural stone city, Xanadu Zhagana!

D2: Lanzhou-Xiahe-Labuleng Temple

After breakfast, enjoy the morning light in Zagana. Zagana is a smoky, ancient and simple pedal house, surrounded by towering stone mountains, and the towering stone forest in Shangpa

Zaga, which means Shimen in Tibetan, means "in a stone box" and is a completely natural "stone city". In 26, it was approved as a provincial geological park, and in 29, it was named "Top Ten Unpopular Peaks" by chinese national geography. It is the location chosen by many photographers.

D3: The Road to Locke

Drive to Huahu Lake. Huahu Lake is located next to National Highway 213 between Zoige, Sichuan and langmusi, Gansu. It is a natural sea on the Gerba grassland. Jedaias is the second largest grassland in China after Hulunbeier grassland, with an altitude of 3,468 meters.

The classic time of Huahu Lake is May and June. The lake is colorful, like a cloud, and the lake is full of gorgeous flowers like monsters. This plant looks unremarkable. In August, when the rain was abundant, it dyed the pure blue lake water into a faint lotus color, deep and shallow, like a touch of red when a girl was homesick. After the tour, go to langmusi!

: D4 in the morning: After Zhagana

, visit langmusi, feel the solemn Buddhist atmosphere of "repairing the white lotus and leaving the continent" and overlook the mysterious and sacred celestial burial platform. The birthplace of langmusi is langmusi Grand Canyon in Sichuan, where there are Langmu Cave, Tiger Cave and the source of Bailong River. Let's feel the beauty of this paradise together! After the tour, return to Lanzhou!

Go around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and drive through the Hexi Corridor.

Understanding the Silk Road with your heart is like crossing the Millennium, standing in the Hexi Corridor to feel the desolation and heroism of history, crossing the deep starry sky and vast grassland, turning into a breeze and flying to your side, hoping to see you again in your lifetime;

In July, snow flies, flowers bloom like carpets, eagles fly and cranes hum, which is mysterious. Looking forward to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Hexi Corridor, we rode and whipped across the desert and galloped on the grassland under the blue sky and white clouds.

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D5: langmusi, 15km away from Huahu Lake in Zhaga

After breakfast, take a bus to the famous Tibetan Buddhist temple, the birthplace of Gelug Sect master Zong Kaba, and enjoy the three wonders of Ruyi Eight Pagoda, Jin Wa Hall and Buddhist art: murals, pile embroidery and butter carving.

Then take a bus to Qinghai Lake, passing through Sun Moon Mountain, Feng Shui Ridge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Loess Plateau, and Daotang River, which is said to be the largest inland saltwater lake in China. The end of the lake is connected with the sky, and the water and the sky are the same. Visitors can visit Qinghai Lake by boat here and feel the beauty of plateau lakes.

D6: Lanzhou, langmusi, 39km

After breakfast, take a bus to Chaka Salt Lake, where water and sky meet, and you can't tell where the sky is and where the water is. It is called the mirror of China's sky. After the tour, take a bus to Dachaidan.

D1: 4km Ta 'er Temple in Xining and 15km Qinghai Lake

After breakfast, take a bus to Dunhuang. Today is a big crossroads. Mainly to appreciate the vast desert Gobi scenery in Qaidam basin, which makes people feel deeply. Due to the sparse population along the way, it is difficult to replenish. It is recommended to prepare enough drinking water and dry food.

After arriving in Dunhuang, although there is no danger of climbing Mount Hua, it is very difficult to climb Mount Tai. Further, take a half step back to Mingsha Mountain and visit Crescent Spring, the largest desert spring in the world. It is known as "a beautiful crescent spring with sand mountains and silver mountains on all sides, a pool of clear water and green ripples".

D2: 15km tea card in Qinghai Lake and 4km Dachaidan

After breakfast, go to the east foot of Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang. On that long plank road, large and small grottoes are connected in twists and turns. The walls of the grottoes are covered with murals and colored sculptures related to Buddhism, and the solemn and dignified Buddha shadows are flying smartly. They are solemn and mysterious, which makes people pause.

Here, it is the Mogao Grottoes, one of the four largest grottoes in China and the largest treasure house of Buddhist art in the world. After the tour, take a bus to Jiayuguan and stay in the hotel to rest!

1-1, after breakfast, visit Jiayuguan Tower at the western end of Wan Li Great Wall, and then take a bus to Zhangye. In the afternoon, you can visit the Danxia landform in Zhangye, which was formed 6 million years ago. Located in Linze and Sunan counties of Zhangye City, covering an area of more than 51 square kilometers. It is the only compound area of Danxia landform and colorful hilly landscape in China, and it has been rated as one of the seven most beautiful Danxia landforms in China by chinese national geography magazine.

D3: 32km from Dachaidan Dunhuang-Mingsha Mountain/Crescent Spring

Visit Zhangye Buddha Temple. Located in the southwest corner of Zhangye City, Gansu Province, the Great Buddha Temple Scenic Area is an important scenic spot.

The scenic spots open to the outside world include the Great Buddha Temple built in Xixia, the Wanshou Pagoda in Sui Dynasty, the Tomi Thousand Buddha Pagoda in Ming Dynasty, the Bell and Drum Tower, and the Shaanxi Guild Hall in Qing Dynasty, etc., which are well-known in the northwest. After the tour, go to Lanzhou to stay in the hotel. In the evening, you can go to the local snack night market and taste the special food!

D4: Jiayuguan, 37km from Mogao Grottoes

Visit Zhongshan Railway Bridge by bus, which is known as' the first bridge of the Yellow River in the world'. The possible self-funded projects in the scenic spot are: sheepskin raft 8 yuan/person; At present, the most beautiful sculpture of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, is the mother of the Yellow River. After that, I visited the ancient water parking lot. The waterwheel in Lanzhou, also known as Crown Car, Dumper Car, Irrigation Car and Tiger Car, originated in the Ming Dynasty.

Qiu Jin Landscape Avenue by car

Someone once said: If you love someone, take him to see the autumn in Ejina, because it is a paradise with beautiful scenery; If you hate someone, take him to see the spring in Ejina, because it is hell. No one can imagine that this is the birthplace of sandstorms in China. Sometimes heaven and hell are only one step away.

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D5: Jiayuguan 26km Zhangye

Lanzhou takes a bus to the summer Tara Prairie, one of the six most beautiful grasslands in China, and enjoys the grassland scenery along the way. Then go to Shandan Royal Racecourse, which is the largest and oldest racecourse in the world at present.

founded in 121 BC by Huo Qubing, an ancient general of the Western Han Dynasty, it has been more than 213 years since then, and it is also the oldest single organization in the world today. In the afternoon, I rode a whip at the military horse farm. Go to Huaixi Town Villa in the evening, and have a rest in the mountains to the east!

D6: 5km away from the Great Buddha Temple in Zhangye, Lanzhou

Take a bus to colorful Danxia in Zhangye, which is one of the areas with the largest and best landform development and the richest landform forms in China. It is a typical representative of colorful Danxia in China and has high scientific research and tourism appreciation value.

In November, 25, China Geographic Magazine and 34 national media jointly held the selection of "The Most Beautiful Place in China" and was selected as one of the "Seven Most Beautiful Danxia in China". After the tour, stay in Zhangye!

D7: Hundred Miles Yellow River amorous feelings line

, Zhang Ye set out for the most beautiful Populus euphratica forest in China, which has turned yellow in Hu Yangshu in October. Under the blue sky, it is as bright as the sun in the deserted desert, and the golden Populus euphratica is reflected on the calm lake, just like an oil painting! After the tour, drive to Ejina Banner to check in!

D1: Huaixi Town, 42km away from Shandan Military Racecourse in Lanzhou

Visit Populus euphratica Forest in Ejina Banner all day, where the sky is soaring, the grass is dancing wildly, and there are all kinds of wonderful things. The Heihe River is cut off and Juyanhai is dried up, leaving only 3, mu of Populus euphratica forest of more than 7, mu. Perhaps it is better to lament the departure of Populus euphratica than to lament the human itself. Saving Populus euphratica is saving human's own home.

D2: Danxia, Zhangye, 195km from Huaixi Town

Get up early and leave for Juyanhai, a strange wandering lake. Juyan is the west.