6-Day Gansu Silk Road Private Tour of Zhangye, Jiayuguan and Dunhuang

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Zhangye

Welcome to Zhangye! Your tour guide will welcome you in the airport/train station, and then escort you to your hotel. The rest of today is for you to explore this exotic city by yourself.

Attractions: Mati Temple, Pingshan Lake Valley

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Zhangye

Morning we will pay a visit to Mati Temple. It is a tourist area integrating grottoes art, Qilian Mountain scenery and Tibetan customs.

The grottoes are composed of seven places: Shengguo Temple, Puguang Temple, Thousand Buddha Cave, Jinta Temple, upper, middle and lower Guanyin Cave, with a total of more than 70 cave niches, built in Beiliang. Horseshoe Temple gets its name from the horseshoe prints of the legendary Tianma drinking water here. The legendary horseshoe imprinting exists in the horseshoe temple of Puguang Temple and has become the treasure of the town temple.

Then proceed the tour to Pingshan Lake Valley. Millions of years of vicissitudes of wind and rain, the magic of nature. Here deep canyons, peculiar peaks and forests, nature uses the creativity of uncanny workmanship to engrave the colorful mountains into an incomparable, breathtaking landscape paintings.

Overnight in Zhangye.

Attractions: Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Zhangye

Meet the guide and driver at the hotel, then we will head to the splendid Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park. There are strange shape, colorful, magnificent Danxia landform. Danxia refers to the isolated peaks and steep strange rocks formed by long-term weathering and erosion of red sand conglomerate. The Danxia landform here developed from the Pre-Jurassic to the Tertiary period about 200 million years ago.

After visiting, we will drive to Jiayuguan for overnight stay.

Attractions: Jiayuguan Fortress, Overhanging Great Wall

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Guazhou

Full day sightseeing in Jiayuguan, we will climb the Jiayuguan pass in the morning. Here, the "Ancient Silk Road" opened up more than 2,000 years ago for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West and the "ancient battlefield" beacon beacon of military battles of all generations can be seen. Here is the intersection of China's Silk Road culture and the Great Wall culture, known as "Hexi city", border key ".

Visit the The Great Wall Museum, which was opened to visitor in October 1989 and it is the first one to exhibit the Great Wall culture in a comprehensive and systematic way.

We will pay a visit to the Overhanging Great Wall, It is called "Cantilever Great Wall" because it is built on a ridge of about 45 degrees and looks like hanging upside down.

Say farewell to Jiayuguan and then we will drive all the way to the last stop Dunhuang.

Attractions: Mogao Grottoes, Echoing Sand Mountain & Crescent Lake, Shazhou Night Market

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Dunhuang

After breakfast, drive to Mogao Grottoes. Mogao Grottoes. Commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, are located on the cliff at the eastern foot of the Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, China, facing the eastern side of the Tongquan River. The distribution of the caves is staggered, the scale of the subzone ratio, and there are up to five layers up and down. It is famous for its exquisite murals and statues. It was built in the sixteen States before the Qin period, after the sixteen States, the Northern Dynasty, Sui, Tang, five dynasties, Western Xia, Yuan and other dynasties of construction. With 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and 2,415 clay colored sculptures, it is the largest and richest Buddhist art site in the world.

Continue the tour to Echoing Sand Mountain & Crescent Lake. The sand mountain is a desert formed under the action of wind. The long yellow sand gathers here to form the sand mountain. The sand mountain will ring under the wind, so it gets its name. In the arms of the sand mountain, there is a crescent shaped lake, the lake grows beside the sand willow, populus euphrysalis, forming an oasis, here called "Crescent Lake". Crescent Lake is a small lake, the water is quite clear and blue. In full sunlight, the water glows with the pleasant colors of the garden. When winter comes, the lake of Crescent Spring freezes into a thick white ice, becoming a small ice rink, so that visitors can not only enjoy the beauty of the lake, but also experience the pleasure of the ice.

In the evening, strolling this interesting Shazhou Night Market, the liveliest place in the

city, where you can take a leisurely stroll, experience the life of the locals, find delicious food,

relax in the bar, or buy some interesting handicrafts and more.

Attractions: No

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Not Included

Today is free for you until your tour guide and driver escort you to the airport in time for the scheduled flight/railway station to other destination. Tour ends.