What are the top ten scenic spots in Gansu that are worth visiting?

Colorful Mountain in Danxia, Lanzhou 1

Zhangye Danxia Geopark is located in Linze and Sunan counties at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, 40 kilometers away from Zhangye City, with a total area of 50 square kilometers. Its colorful landforms, staggered bedding, majestic momentum and spectacular scenes are breathtaking. It is one of the areas with the largest and best landform development and the richest landform modeling in China. It is a typical representative of colorful Danxia and lattice Gongdanxia in China, and has high scientific research and tourism appreciation value. June-September, when the rainfall is concentrated every year, is the best time to travel to Zhangye. At this time, humid air and cool weather will make people's journey more comfortable.

2. The camel bell in the dream-Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain, Dunhuang

Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang is located in the transitional zone between Badain Jaran Desert and Taklimakan Desert, five kilometers south of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. Sha Feng has ups and downs, and when people slide down the slope, they will make a roar. It is called "Shaji Qingyin" and is one of the eight scenic spots in Dunhuang. It is 40 kilometers long, 20 kilometers wide and the highest point is about 250 meters. It is made of sand all over the mountain. The peaks are steep, the back is like a blade, and there is a emerald crescent spring at the foot of the mountain. Six kilometers south of Dunhuang, you can see the rolling Mingsha Mountain at a glance. Throughout the ages, this place is famous for its wonderful landscape of "mountain spring * * *, sand water * * *" and is known as "one of the scenic spots beyond the Great Wall". The artistic landscapes of Mingsha Mountain, Crescent Moon Spring and Mogao Grottoes are integrated, which are the "two wonders" connecting the south of Dunhuang and become the tourist attractions that people in China and even the world yearn for.

3. Mogao Grottoes, a treasure house of Buddhist art, history and culture.

Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is located in Dunhuang at the western end of Hexi Corridor. Founded in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Countries, after the Sixteen Countries, Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties, Xixia and Yuan Dynasties, it has formed a huge scale, with 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and 24 15 clay sculptures. It is the largest and richest Buddhist art site in the world.

196 1 year, the Mogao grottoes were announced by the people of China and the State Council as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1987, Mogao grottoes was listed as a world cultural heritage. Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan, and Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui, Gansu are also called the four major grottoes in China.

4. Tianma has been here-Horseshoe Temple

Horseshoe Temple is located in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County; It is 65 kilometers away from Zhangye City in the north, and it is a tourist area integrating grotto art, Qilian Mountain scenery and Yugur customs. The grottoes consist of seven caves, namely Guo Sheng Temple, Puguang Temple, Thousand Buddha Cave, Jinta Temple, Upper, Middle and Lower Guanyin Cave. * * * More than 70 grottoes were built in Beiliang. Horseshoe Temple is named after the legendary Tianma with horseshoe prints here. The legendary horseshoe mark exists in the horseshoe hall of Puguang Temple and becomes the treasure of the town temple. The horseshoe grottoes are unique in that there are more than 500 cliff pagodas in the Thousand Buddha Cave, which are large in scale; The large-scale meat carving of Jinta Temple is simple and elegant, which is unique 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 Yugur tents, drink highland barley wine, eat hand-grabbed meat and experience the unique lifestyle and cultural characteristics of grassland nomads.

5, water and sky are the same-Jinta Populus euphratica

Jinta Populus euphratica forest is located in Chaohu Forest Farm in the west of Jinta County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and is a part of the Three North Shelterbelt System. There are tens of thousands of acres of artificial Populus euphratica forest there. This Populus euphratica forest is surrounded by a large area of northwest endemic tree species such as Elaeagnus angustifolia, Populus alba and Salix, which is densely distributed and grows well, ranking first in the province and has great tourism development value, and will be more famous here in the near future. In autumn and October, some green leaves of Populus euphratica have turned yellow, and so has Hu Yangshu. Under the blue sky, it is as bright as the sun in the desert.

6. Shocking Power-Ya Dan Ghost Town

"Ya Dan" is a Uyghur language, meaning a mountain with steep walls. Geologically, Ya Dan landform refers to a landscape composed of a series of parallel ridges and grooves after long-term wind erosion. The newly discovered landform of Ya Dan covers an area of about 400 square kilometers. It took about 700,000 to 300,000 years to form. When the strong wind blows, it will make all kinds of strange sounds, so it is also called "Dunhuang Ya Dan Ghost Town". There is no grass and trees here, but there are black sand seas and yellow clay sculptures everywhere, and all kinds of shapes are vivid under the blue sky. In the past, few people set foot here because of the vastness of Gobi and the steep roads. Dunhuang people are also hearing people, but few people see them. With the completion of Yumenguan and Ya Dan Ghost Town Highway, the conditions for this geographical wonder have been met.

7, the pearl of the plateau-Gahai Lake

Gahai Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Gannan and an important wetland in the eastern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Known as the Pearl of the Plateau, 1982 was awarded the provincial migratory bird nature reserve. In summer, Gahai Lake is covered with endless grasslands, with wild flowers and birds gathering in the vast Shenhu Lake, which is the real Shambhala in the snowy plateau.

8, the world's first male pass-Jiayuguan

World cultural heritage, national 5A-level tourist attractions. Jiayuguan is located in the middle of the narrowest valley 5 kilometers west of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province. The walls on both sides of the city pass through the desert Gobi, connecting the Great Wall of Montenegro in the north and the first pier in the world in the south. It is the westernmost part of the Great Wall in Wan Li in the Ming Dynasty. It was once called the throat of Hexi in history. Because of its dangerous terrain and magnificent architecture, it is known as the first male pass in the world, even the lock key. Jiayuguan Pass was the first pass at the western end of the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty, and it was also the traffic fortress of the ancient Silk Road. It is known as one of the three wonders of the Great Wall of China (Shanhaiguan in the east, Beitai in the middle and Jiayuguan in the west).

9. The first mountain in the west-Kongtong Mountain Scenic Area

Kongtong Mountain, the holy land of Taoism, belongs to the branch of Liupanshan Mountain and is the natural kingdom of animals and plants. There are more than 0/000 species of plants and more than 300 species of animals, and the forest coverage rate is over 90%. In the meantime, the peaks stand tall and the cliffs stand tall, which seems ingenious; The forest is vast, and the smoke cage is locked in the fog, like an ethereal fairyland; Gaoxia Pinghu has water and sky, and the charm of Lijiang River. Kongtong Mountain is known as a bright pearl on the Loess Plateau in Longdong, with its mountainous peaks, abrupt cliffs, criss-crossing canyons, numerous culverts and rugged rocks. It is also said that it is a place where immortals practice Taoism. Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of humanity, once asked Guangchengzi to be in this mountain, and was honored as the first Taoist mountain in the world by Taoism.

10, Labrang Temple, World Tibetan University.

The name of Xiahe County in Gansu comes from the Daxia River which runs through the city. The clear Daxia River, like a white Hada, meanders from west to northeast in the shape of a right-handed conch, and alluvial into a basin between Longshan and Fengshan, which the Tibetan people call a cornucopia. The Labrang Temple is located on this cornucopia. The beauty of Labrang Temple lies not only in its magnificent external Buddhist temple, extraordinary Buddha statue, cigarette and mulberry stove, colorful banners, numerous buildings and buildings, but also in its long history and religious charm. Through the thick simmering mulberry smoke, burning butter lamps, rotating prayer wheels and kowtowing worshippers, you can feel the infinite charm of faith.