Nine tourist attractions around Lanzhou.

There are also many interesting scenic spots around Lanzhou, many of which are highly recommended for friends to visit. Next, I will give you a detailed introduction and recommend you to visit Liujiaxia Reservoir, Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest, Gannan Grassland and other scenic spots.

1. Liujiaxia Reservoir/Bingling Temple Grottoes Liujiaxia Reservoir is located in Yongjing County, Linxia Prefecture, 80 kilometers away from Lanzhou, and the driving time is 1.5 hours. Bingling Temple takes a boat from Liujiaxia Dam, which takes six hours by big boat and two hours by speedboat. 45 yuan/person tickets for large ships and speedboats are charged at different rates. Roughly 1 10 yuan/person (round trip fee).

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1. Join the tour: Travel agencies in Lanzhou usually send them to Liujiaxia/Bingling Temple every day during the tourist season, and the cost needs more than 200 yuan. You can usually register one or two days in advance. You can't return on the same day, either leave Lanzhou by train after 10: 00 in the evening or choose to return the next day.

2. Chartered car: If it is two or three people, chartered car is still very cost-effective, and you can set your own time to start from Lanzhou city. If you return by plane or train, you can take the train or plane after four o'clock in the afternoon.

3. Free travel: You can also take the shuttle bus from Lanzhou West Bus Station to Liujiaxia. The ticket is probably one-way to 20 yuan, but you may need to take a taxi to the dam when you get to Yongjing County.

Second, Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest is 0/85 km away from Lanzhou/KLOC-and it is also a highlight around Lanzhou. Now it is also used as the location of a western film, such as Jackie Chan's movie hero TV series "Old Persimmon Tree" and so on.

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In fact, the tourism industry in Gansu Province is not large, and the passenger flow is relatively small. Of course, individual travelers can go to Jiayuguan Dunhuang and other places every day. However, it is inconvenient for individual travelers to come to Lanzhou, a scenic spot like Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest, but it is convenient to rent a car, especially for two or three tourists. Rent a car is not expensive, time is free, and you will have a good time. One-day tour ticket price of Yellow River Stone Forest in Jingtai, Lanzhou is around 700 yuan.

Third, it is very convenient to travel to Gannan grassland. It takes only three or four hours to drive from Lanzhou to Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. There are herds of cattle and sheep, green grasslands, Labrang Temple, one of the six major temples of Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, mysterious langmusi, and Lisa Cafe, which backpackers like ... from Xiahe to Sanke Grassland, to and from 30 yuan or in Wang Fu. Others can rent bicycles from Xiahe to Sangcao. Gannan tourism has been sought after by many people who love to travel. It is natural and simple here, and the tourism here has not been commercialized too much.

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There are many cars from Lanzhou to Linxia. At Lanzhou South Bus Station, there are 7 trains to Linxia from 8: 00 to 9: 30 in the morning (the fare is 29.5 yuan). At Lanzhou West Bus Station, there is a bus to Linxia at 6:30- 12:30, * * * (fare 10.8 yuan). The bus from Linxia to Xiahe runs every 40 minutes on average and takes about 3 hours by car. If you leave Lanzhou Bus Station at 7: 30 in the morning and finally arrive at Xiahe Station, it will be about 10: 30 in the morning. When you arrive at Xiahe Station, you can walk to Labrang Temple in ten minutes and take a taxi to Sanke Grassland in ten minutes. One way around 30 yuan. It is recommended to charter or drive by car. The journey from Lanzhou to the cooperation is basically about three hours, and the price is around 60 yuan.

Four, Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes Maijishan Grottoes is an important scenic spot in Maijishan Scenic Area, a national 5A-level tourist scenic spot, named after the shape of the mountain resembles the shape of a farmer's wheat pile.

The cave niches in Maijishan Grottoes are carved on the vertical cliff surface, 20-80 meters high and 200 meters wide. There are 65,438+094 caves, including 54 caves in East Asia and 65,438+040 caves in Xia, with more than 7,800 clay sculptures, stone carvings and stone carvings. The largest statue, the Giant Buddha of East Asia, is15.8m high, and the mural is 1000 m2.

Maijishan Grottoes is one of the four largest grottoes in China, and is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Hall". The other three grottoes are Longmen Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.

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It is convenient for Lanzhou to go to Tianshui by train, and tourists can choose their travel time freely. A two-day train tour in Tianshui can be organized every day, usually with more than two people picking up and dropping off.

Zhangye is a beautiful city. The colorful Danxia in Linze attracts countless tourists, especially those who like photography. In 2006, it was rated as "the most beautiful Danxia landform in China" by China Geography magazine. Zhangye also has Yugur, a unique ethnic minority in Gansu, where you can appreciate the unique Yugur customs in the country. The Great Buddha Temple in Zhangye City has the largest indoor reclining Buddha statue in Asia.

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It is very convenient to take the train from Lanzhou to Zhangye. There is a train to Zhangye every morning, and it will arrive around noon. Travel agencies in Lanzhou also have individual train tours to Zhangye during the tourist season. Visit the ancient Buddhist monuments, enjoy the colorful Danxia landform and experience the interesting route design of galloping in the royal ranch;

Zhangye Giant Buddha Temple-Danxia landform-Shandan Military Horse Farm-Nantaizi Village, Nijiaying Township, Linze County, Gansu Province, 37.7 kilometers from Zhangye to Sunan Highway, the car enters the gas station in Linze County and drives towards Sunan. There is a sculpture at the intersection. Go straight in until you see an inconspicuous billboard on the left. A local farmer in Leixingyi has developed a dirt road to go deep into the scenic spot (the road developed by the county can only be seen from a distance, not in the hinterland of the scenic spot), and his travelling expenses 10 yuan/person can be used as a guide or as a ticket.

6. Yeliguan is a national 4A-level forest park hidden in the inland of Gansu. Its unique and beautiful scenery makes you relaxed and happy. It is also called "the back garden of Lanzhou".

Day 1: Lanzhou takes a bus to Yeliguan Natural Scenic Area, Lintan County, Gannan Prefecture. On the way, visit Mu Ye Gorge: Upper Gorge and Lower Gorge, visit the national AAAA Forest Park-Huangjianzi Forest Park and Xiangzigou, watch the sleeping Buddha in Shili at night, attend a bonfire party at your own expense, enjoy folk songs, eat roast mutton and drink highland barley wine. Sue: The first day of Yeliguan;

After breakfast, visit Coconut Sea Tianchi Lake, visit the strange Danxia landform-Chibi Valley, and return to Lanzhou by bus in the afternoon.

7. Tulugou Tulugou is located in Liancheng Forest District, Yongdeng County, northwest of Lanzhou City 160 km, and belongs to the eastern foot of Qilian Mountain.

It is a natural landscape tourist area with beautiful mountains and rivers as the main body and is known as the "mythical green valley". Tulugou 1984 was officially opened to tourists on August 1 day, and was approved as a national forest park by the Ministry of Forestry on August 1992. 1997 was selected as one of the top ten forest parks in China and became an ideal destination for forest eco-tourism in Lanzhou.

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Method 1: Take a bus from Lanzhou West Bus Station to Yaojie, the fare is about 15 yuan, and then find a local privately-run minibus (there are many, you can take a taxi on the roadside, the price is about 120- 150, and you can take seven people) and go directly to Tulugou.

Method 2: Take a bus to Liancheng at Lanzhou West Bus Station, then reverse at Liancheng and go directly to Tulugou.

8. Songming Rock is known as the "Green Pearl in Longshang", "Hometown of Ancient Animal Fossils" and "China Flower Heritage Base"-Zheng Zheng with beautiful scenery. After arriving in Zheng He, I visited Zheng He Museum of Paleontology, which is rich in variety, well-preserved, rare in the world, and has the largest six kinds of paleontological fossils in the world. The next day, I visited Songmingyan National Forest Park, which is a 4A-level scenic spot and is called the Kingdom of Green Plants. Here, the mountains are green, the Gu Song is towering, the four seasons are misty, and the streams are gurgling all year round, which is an excellent place for holiday and health.

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Take a bus from Lanzhou South Bus Station to Haozhigou, get off and a Wuling van will come. When you get on the bus, tell the driver to get off at the fork in the road and take a bus to Diaotan. On the way, he told the driver to give him the money to Song Ming Rock, and he arrived. The fare will not exceed 50.

9. Gui Qingshan in Zhangxi 'an County is located 72km south of Zhangxi 'an County. It is the most beautiful natural scenic spot on the Loess Plateau in central Gansu. Now it is a provincial forest park, known as "Little Huashan" in central Gansu. Because it stretches for as long as 18 villages, it is called "eighteen villages in Guiqing".

Day 1: Yang Zheshan takes a bus to Yang Zheshan (about 4 hours) and visits Yang Zhe Forest Park after lunch (about 3 hours). Known as Minshan's "Little Kongtong", it consists of three scenic spots: Xixi, Dongxi and Yimen Mountain. Yang Zhe is dominated by karst landforms, including canyon, Danxia landform and karst landform. There are abundant profiles, structures and fossils in the park, hence the name "Sunrise is covered by mountains". Live in Zhang Xi 'an County at night.

The next day: Zhang Xian-Gui Qingshan-Lanzhou, after breakfast, take a bus [about 2 hours] to Gui Qingshan, visit Gui Qingshan Forest Park (about 3 hours), and take a bus back to Lanzhou in the afternoon to end the pleasant journey!

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Lanzhou Long-distance Passenger Transport Center takes the shuttle bus to Zhangxi 'an County, and then transfers to Gui Qingshan.