6-Day Private Silk Road Tour to Qinghai and Zhangye

Attractions: Ta'er monastery (Kumbum Monastery)

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Xining

 Today your flight will touch down in Xining, We will meet you at the airport exit with a welcome board. Then take you to visit the Ta'er monastery (Kumbum Monastery). Ta’er Monastery is the centre of Tibetan Buddhism activities in Northwest China and is renowned in China and Southeast Asia. The ruins of Tal Temple have survived the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Western Xia Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty, and have experienced several periods of prosperity and decline. Ghee flowers, murals and embroidery are known as the "Tal Temple art three". In addition to that, the temple also treasures a lot of Buddhist books and history, literature, philosophy, medicine, legislation and other aspects of academic monographs. It is worth seeing.

Attractions: Qinghai Lake

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Chaka

Enjoy the magnificent scenery of Qinghai Lake in the morning. Qinghai Lake is a famous tourist attraction in Qinghai Province. The lake is surrounded by mountains and grasslands with magnificent views. The scenery of this lake changes with the seasons. In July and August every year, many rape flowers bloom around the lake. The yellow colour of the rapeseed fields contrasts with the blue colour of the lake. In winter, the lake is covered by a huge layer of ice, creating a superb view. To the west is Bird Island, where hundreds of thousands of birds can be viewed and photographed from April to June each year; the eastern part of the lake is dominated by beach scenery and recreation; and to the north are attractions such as Gold and Silver Beaches and Atomic City.

Then drive to Chaka for an overnight stay.

Attractions: Chaka Salt Lake

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Zhangye

Enjoy a delighting breakfast at the hotel and set off by the private vehicle to enjoy the most charming landscape of Chaka Salt Lake, Chaka Salt Lake was named one of the "55 Places to Visit in your Lifetime" by National Travel Geographic magazine. The lake here has a strong reflective ability, like a mirror for the sky grooming and grooming. This natural landscape is extremely rare in China, known as China's sky mirror. There are many salt sculptures to see in the scenic area. You can also take a small train to visit the depths of the salt lake.

We will back to Xining in the afternoon and then catch an express train to our next stop Zhangye.

Attractions: Giant Buddha Temple, Mati Temple

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Zhangye

After breakfast at the hotel, we will take you to visit the Giant Buddha Temple,  formerly known as Kasye Tathagai Temple, because the temple has China's largest indoor Nirvana reclining Buddha statue named, it is also known as "Reclining Buddha Temple", for the temple built by the royal family, is a national 4A level tourist attraction. It is located in Dafosi Lane, Minzhu West Street, Ganzhou District, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, with a total area of more than 30,000 square meters.

Then proceed the tour 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.

Attractions: Binggou Danxia, Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Jiayuguan

Today we will proceed to visit the Binggou Danxia, with sandstone landform relic landscape as the main body, is the geological landform relic with the best development and largest scale of window root palace in China. It is the geological naming place of "window root palace Danxia" and has been rated as "the first window root palace Danxia landform in China". Binggou Danxia is famous for its "majestic and miraculous" and is known as "the first wonder under heaven". It has been named as one of the "7 most beautiful Danxia landforms in China" and one of the "10 amazing geographical wonders in the world" by Chinese Geographic Magazine and National Geographic Magazine of the United States.

After that, continue the tour to 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.

Afternoon, drive you to back to Zhangye hotel.

Attractions: No

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Not Included

Free to explore Zhangye City. Transfer to airport to catch the flight. Tour ends.