Day 9 Dunhuang

Attractions: Yumen Pass, Ruin of Great Wall of Han Dynasty, Yadan National Geologic Park, Echoing Sand Mountains, Crescent Lake

Meal: Not Included

Hotel: Overnight in Dunhuang

You will firstly arrive at Yumen Pass (Jade Gate Pass), also known as the Small Fangpan City, prospered with the prosperity of the Silk Road, and was once a place through which merchants from the Western regions and people from the Central Plains came and went. 

Because Hetian jade was imported from here to the Central Plains since ancient times, it is called the Jade Gate Pass.

About 5 km from Yumen Pass is the Ruin of Great Wall of Han Dynasty which was built to fight against Xiongnu in the ancient time. Keep driving, you will get to Yadan National Geologic Park. It is also called Devil City in that you will hear the sound just like the devil screaming when the strong wind goes through the desert.

The following attraction is the Echoing Sand Mountains (Mingshashan).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".