Gansu tourism classic route recommendation

In the three northwestern provinces, tourism has become more and more popular in recent years! Tibet ranks first, followed by Xinjiang and Gansu. Being in the northwest, Gansu is not as high as Tibet! Unlike the mountains and rivers in Xinjiang, the beauty of Gansu will be different this year. National Day is coming. Let's take a look at the classic tourist routes in Gansu.

This province, with thousands of years of rich cultural accumulation, is peculiar, rich and changeable, which is worth understanding deeply. If you go all the way along the Gansu section of G30 Expressway, you will definitely subvert your understanding of Gansu!

Classic line recommendation:

Starting from Lanzhou, follow the G30 Lianhuo Expressway and March all the way into Dunhuang.

Route: Lanzhou-Tianzhu-Wuwei-Shandan-Zhangye-Jiuquan-Dunhuang

On this road, you can not only visit world-class tourist attractions, but also enjoy the towering snow peaks of Qilian Mountain.

Ya Dan's fantastic landforms, charming lakes and grasslands.

The desolate and vast desert Gobi, the desert camel team in the sunset, and a green spring that never dries up in the desert.

Schematic diagram of the route: First stop: Lanzhou

Liujiaxia

Liujiaxia is the first gorge of the Yellow River, where the Yellow River turns a 90-degree sharp bend and then flows westward through the canyon. The turbid Yellow River water in the illustrations of geography textbooks has become clear and blue after sedimentation in Liujiaxia Reservoir.

Can you imagine that this is the Yellow River water?

Qingcheng ancient town

Historically, merchants from Qingcheng, Beijing, Tianjin and Shanxi came and went, so the buildings in the town have both the luxurious atmosphere of Shanxi mansion and the elegant symmetry of Beijing quadrangles.

Here, you can not only enjoy the antique Ming and Qing dwellings, but also see the ten thousand acres of lotus fields swaying in the wind, and even listen to the moving west wing minor.

Second stop: Tianzhu

Tianzhu Tang Tian Temple

Tang Tian Temple in Tianzhu is a Gelug Sect temple of Tibetan Buddhism, which lasted for more than 1000 years from the early Tang Dynasty to the early liberation.

South of Tang Tian Temple is Jinsha Gorge, which is famous for its strange and steep scenery. Xianming Gorge and Jinsha Gorge are separated by a river, with dangerous peaks and mountains and pleasant scenery.

Seize Xixi Xiulong Grassland

Third stop: Wuwei

Liangzhou Confucius temple

One of the three major Confucius Temples in China, it is known as "the crown of Longyou Academy". The largest Confucius Temple in northwest China. The age of construction is unknown. Located in the city center. Although the architecture and layout are similar to other Confucius temples, the environment is elegant and the ancient buildings are well preserved.

The most distinctive thing is the plaque hanging on the roof. There are many plaques in Confucian temples all over the country, but this shocking scene can only be seen in Wuwei Confucian Temple.

BaiTa Temple

Baita Temple was built in the second year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (28 1). The founder of the third-order school, Xinxin Zen Master, was buried next to the temple after his death, so it was also called Xinxin Zen Master Tower. It was the ancestral home of Buddhism in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Baita Temple is located in Baita Village, 23 kilometers south of the city. This scenic spot witnessed the historical event of Tibet's integration into Chinese territory, and it belongs to a scenic spot with cheap tickets and few tourists.

Tianti Grottoes

Tiantai Mountain Grottoes, also known as the Big Buddha Temple, is located in Dengshan Village, Zhonglu Township, 50 kilometers south of Wuwei. It was built in Beiliang during the Sixteen Kingdoms Period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with a history of about 1600 years ago.

Tiantai Mountain is steep and towering, with rugged stone steps and rugged roads, so it is called Tiantai Mountain. In the grottoes, the giant Buddha sits by the mountain, with blue waves and thin clouds under his feet, which constitute a spectacular spectacle of mountains, water, Buddha and clouds. It is a famous tourist attraction in Liangzhou.

Ferris wheel theme park

The theme park is a large-scale cultural amusement complex with multi-space, multi-angle and multi-level land, water, air and land, which takes the Ferris wheel as the core of the park and integrates sightseeing, leisure and ecological construction.

Ferris wheel ranks ninth in the world, fifth in China and first in western China.

Fourth stop: Zhangye

Zhangye Danxia National Geopark

Colorful Danxia District is located at the south 1.7 km of Nantai Village, Nijiaying Township, at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain. There are no gorgeous flowers and lush scenery here, but there are colorful scenery. This is a touch of water rouge on earth.

Being here, colorful colors have a great impact on vision, and various folds and continuous ups and downs set each other off, which is fascinating!

Colorful Danxia presents different colors under the illumination of light. Iron rock is red, manganese rock is black, argillaceous rock is gray, phosphorus rock is gray-blue, volcanic rock is orange-yellow, gravelly rock is blue, and all colors intersect, so the mountain naturally presents different colors.

Danxia in Binggou, Southern Jiangsu

Binggou Danxia in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County is located in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, at the junction of Qilian Mountain and Hexi Corridor.

It consists of maroon mudstone, shale, siltstone and red gravelly coarse sandstone, gravel and conglomerate. Because the gravel rock is hard, it forms a relatively prominent layered rock uplift after weathering.

Zhangye Pinghu gorge

The Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon in Zhangye is about 25 kilometers away from downtown Zhangye. Its geological structure belongs to red bed landform, which refers to the red rock series deposited from Mesozoic Jurassic to Cenozoic Tertiary, commonly known as "red glutenite", which has been around for/kloc-0.80 billion to 240 million years.

Fifth stop: jinta Populus euphratica forest

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 Populus euphratica forests, Populus euphratica in autumn and October, some green leaves have turned yellow, and Hu Yangshu has also turned yellow. Under the blue sky, it is as bright as the sun in the desert.

Sixth stop: Jiuquan

Jiuquan park

Jiuquan Park, located at the east of Gulou 1.9 km, covers an area of 270,000 square meters. It is the only well-preserved China garden in Hexi Corridor with a history of more than 2,000 years.

There are springs, lakes, mountains and rocks in the park, and there are eight scenic spots, namely Jiuquan Scenic Area, Moon Cave Jinzhu Scenic Area, Western Han Scenic Area, Qilian Chengbo, Shenyun, Quyuan Catering Show, Flowers and Moon, and Luban Evening Boat.

Great Wall Wharf

The first pier of the Great Wall, also known as Taolaijiang Pier, is the southernmost pier of Jiayuguan West Great Wall and the westernmost pier of Wan Li Great Wall in Ming Dynasty. It is also the most spectacular and well-preserved ancient military pass along the Great Wall.

Seventh stop: Dunhuang

At Guazhou Station, we changed from National Highway G30 to National Highway G30 1 1 before entering Dunhuang:

Mogao Grottoes

A cave, a world; A cave, a history. Murals, sculptures, Tibetan scriptures and legends are all a mystery;

Sitting on the Buddha, standing on the bodhisattva, avalokitesvara with a thousand hands, flying goddess, rebounding pipa, and holding the fist Hu Jia are all addictive.

Crescent spring

"Clear Wan Li blue sky, beautiful crescent spring. Yinshan is surrounded by mountains, and a pool of clear water is green! " Huangmingsha Mountain and Qingquan Crescent Spring are interdependent, and the strange and charming scenery lasts for thousands of years. Tired from the journey, you can relax here, have a cup of coffee and feel the artistic atmosphere here. The Silk Road trip is over, pack your bags and come back with good memories!