What should I do to go to Dunhuang?

Ya Dan Geopark

Yangguan site

han great wall

Xiqian Buddha Caves

1. Mogao grottoes, also known as the Thousand Buddha Cave, is located in the southeast of Dunhuang City. Grottoes were founded in the period of the Sixteen Countries in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the excavation of grottoes lasted for thousands of years until the end of the Yuan Dynasty. With a large number of murals, grottoes and cultural relics, it is a world-famous Buddhist art resort. Here, you can enjoy the large-scale and rich-content grottoes and murals, and you can also learn about the development history of Buddhism in Dunhuang for thousands of years through explanations and film screenings.

2. Ya Dan Geopark in Dunhuang, also known as Dunhuang Ghost Town, is located on the Gobi Desert, which is 0/80 km northwest of Dunhuang, and is an important landscape for tourists to visit the western line of Dunhuang (including Yumenguan, Han Great Wall, Yangguan and West Thousand Buddha Cave). The park is dominated by a large number of unique Ya Dan landforms, which are fantastic and spectacular on the Gobi Desert, making it an excellent place to take large-scale photography at sunset in the evening. The ghost town covers a large area, about 25 kilometers long and 13 kilometers wide, with various wind erosion landscapes in different shapes.

3. Yangguan Site, also known as Yangguan Museum, is located on the west side of Dunhuang City, about 60 kilometers away from Dunhuang City. It is a scenic spot built on the basis of Guyangguan site. Some tower buildings imitating the Han Dynasty have been built in the scenic area, and several exhibition halls have been set up to display many cultural relics on the ancient Silk Road. Here, you can visit cultural relics and buildings, take photos with Guyangguan site, visit a residential street in the scenic spot and buy souvenirs.

4. At the northern end of Dunhuang, there are branches of the Han Great Wall from Yumenguan to Yangguan, Yangguan to Danghekou and Mamitu to Bend Pier. With the passage of more than two thousand years and the destruction of wind, rain and quicksand, part of the Great Wall was razed to the ground and most of it was preserved. Among them, the Great Wall around the Danggu Tunnel to the west of Yumenguan is well preserved, with a foundation width of 3 meters, a residual height of 3 meters and a top width of 1 meter, which is the most complete section of the Great Wall in Han Dynasty in China.

The West Thousand Buddha Cave is an integral part of Dundun Buddhist art system. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, there were 16 caves. One to three caves belong to the Tang Dynasty, four to eight caves belong to the Wei Dynasty, and sixteen caves belong to the late Tang Dynasty. These nine caves are well preserved, and the others are difficult to identify due to weathering. Its cave shape and mural art style are the same as those of Mogao Grottoes, and its creation time is at least the same as that of Mogao Grottoes.