Horseshoe Temple Travel Guide

Horseshoe Temple Travel Guide: If possible, it is recommended to drive to Horseshoe Temple. The road conditions are good and the scenery along the way is great. In addition, you can drive in horseshoe temple. If there are no conditions, it is recommended to report a half-day tour on the tourism platform. The price is convenient and easy. Not far from the entrance to the Thousand Buddha Cave. The scenery on the bridge next to the Thousand Buddha Cave is very beautiful, so you can go and have a look.

Horseshoe Temple is located in Horseshoe Tibetan Township, Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Gansu Province, 65 kilometers north of Zhangye City. It is a tourist area integrating grotto art, Qilian Mountain scenery and Tibetan customs. The grottoes consist of seven places, namely Guo Sheng Temple, Puguang Temple, Thousand Buddha Cave, Jinta Temple, Upper, Middle and Lower Guanyin Cave. There are more than 70 grottoes built in Beiliang, and horseshoe temple drinks here because of the legendary Tianma.

Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Horseshoe Grottoes have experienced the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China to modern times, with a history of 1600 years. It is one of the cultural relics with long history and high artistic value in the province. The unique feature of the Horseshoe Grottoes is that there are more than 500 cliff pagodas in the Thousand Buddha Cave, which is a large-scale grassland nomadic experience.

Temple layout

The horseshoe-shaped grottoes are unique in that there are more than 500 cliff pagodas in the Thousand Buddha Cave, which are large in scale, and the large-scale meat carving in Jinta Temple is simple and elegant, which is the only one in China. There are five 2 1 caves in the 33-day cave of Puguang Temple, which are arranged in a pagoda shape, with a Buddhist temple inside and a cloister outside. * * * There are 49 caves inside and outside with unique shapes. Horseshoe Temple has a beautiful environment, beautiful mountains and clear waters, and strange peaks and caves.

Visitors can also live in Tibetan tents, drink highland barley wine, eat hand-grabbed meat and experience the unique lifestyle and cultural characteristics of grassland nomads. There are countless stone pagodas and thousands of Buddha caves carved on the cliff, 33 days, Tibetan Buddha Hall, Horseshoe Hall, Medicine King Hall, King Gelsall Hall and so on. This is the masterpiece of China Grottoes. In addition, the spacious Lanping, such as Lotus Peak with five lotus flowers in full bloom, Song Lin Waterfall flowing down, lush virgin forest and grassland where you can try riding posture, is even more fascinating.

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