What are the tourist attractions in Jiayuguan?

Jiayuguan is located at the transportation hub of the ancient "Silk Road" and the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall in Wan Li in the Ming Dynasty. Here, the Silk Road culture and the Great Wall culture are integrated and complement each other. It is known as the "important town in Hexi" and "the key to the border" and is rich in tourism resources.

Recommended interesting scenic spots in Jiayuguan:

1, Qilian Mountain

The average mountain range of Qilian Mountain is between 4000 meters and 5000 meters above sea level, and the landform is very spectacular. The virgin forest area of Qilian Mountain is157,000 hectares, with forest resources of more than 2 million cubic meters, including spruce, juniper, poplar, and shrubs such as whipping hemp, black thorn and willow. It is one of the larger forest areas in Qinghai Province. Saussurea involucrata, Bombyx Batryticatus and Snow Mountain Grass are the "three friends of old and cold" on the snow line of Qilian Mountain.

2. July 1st Glacier

It is 0/30km away from Jiayuguan City/KLOC-and is the closest glacier in Asia. The glacier tongue part of the glacier is 4300 meters above sea level, the ice peak is 5 150 meters above sea level, the glacier area is 5 square kilometers, and the average ice thickness is 78 meters. The slope is less than 45 degrees and easy to climb. The tip of the glacier is engraved with the monument of "the green hills are not old, and the snow is the head".

3. Guancheng

Located in the middle of the narrowest valley in Jiayuguan, the city walls on both sides pass through the desert Gobi, connecting the Great Wall in Montenegro in the north and the first pier in the world in the south. It is the westernmost pass of the Great Wall in Wan Li in the Ming Dynasty and the first pass in Hexi since ancient times.

4. Tower

Jiayuguan is large in scale and imposing. The whole building is composed of inner city, outer city and city wall, which is tragic and brilliant. The whole Guancheng building is solid and magnificent, trapezoidal, with a perimeter of 733 meters, an area of 33,500 square meters, a height of 10 meter and a piled wall height of 1.7 meter. The city wall protrudes to the west and the door opens in the middle. The word "Jiayuguan" is engraved on the threshold.

5. The world's first pier

The starting point of the first pier at the western end of the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty. The original length, width and height are all14m, which is a square pyramid. Later, part of the shore wall collapsed, and only the existing pier stood against the wall, which was extremely dangerous.

6. The Great Wall Museum

The first theme museum in China that comprehensively and systematically displays the Great Wall culture. Covering an area of 12,312 square meters, the main building looks like a beacon tower, just like a beacon tower facing each other. The exhibition is divided into four parts: the Great Wall in Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, the Great Wall in Qin and Han Dynasties, the Great Wall in Northern Wei Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Great Wall in Liao and Jin Dynasties and the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty.