The Silk Road

Fly to Lanzhou, check in to the hotel upon arrival and rest.

Departure in the morning to Yongjing, arrived to visit the Liu Jiaxia Dam, then take the speedboat along the Yellow River to Bingling Temple Grottoes, boat upstream, only to see the two sides of the strange peaks facing each other, the pen standing thousands of Ren, the lake is rippling, lined with blue skies and white clouds, a different kind of lakes and mountains.Visit Bingling Temple Grottoes, Bingling Temple Grottoes was built in the Western Qin Dynasty in the first year of Jianhong (420 A.D.), from the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms, through the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, there have been more than 1,600 years of history.The grotto shrines are lined up, the stacks are in the air, majestic, Bingling Temple Grottoes with a new posture, simple methods, created a vivid sculpture and painting art, its relief stupa and tantric murals can be compared with the Mogao Grottoes and the Maijishan Grottoes.

After breakfast, visit the Gansu Provincial Museum, which was formerly known as the Gansu Science and Education Museum formed by the Sino-British Gengzi Reparations Board in 1939.There are more than 350,000 pieces of historical relics, modern relics, national relics, fossils and specimens of paleontology in the collection.Visit Zhongshan Iron Bridge, which has the longest history in Lanzhou and is known as the first bridge over the Yellow River in the world,and the most exquisite and representative sculpture Mother Yellow River Statue,Visit Waterwheel Garden, the oldest irrigation tool along the Yellow River in ancient times,In the afternoon, we went to the most local food street in Lanzhou – Zhengnin Road Snack Street,Taste the most authentic flavourful snacks in Lanzhou.

After breakfast, take the train to Zhangye, arrived in Zhangye after lunch to visit the Big Buddha Temple, the Big Buddha Temple was built in the Western Xia Chongzong Yongan first year (1098) has been more than nine hundred years of history.It is the only one of the many temples built by the Western Xia Kingdom that has survived so far.Inside the temple, there is a statue of Sakyamuni Nirvana, which is the largest indoor clay reclining Buddha in China, with a length of 34.5 metres and a shoulder width of 7.5 metres.Big Buddha Temple is currently Zhangye City Museum seat, in addition to the Ming Dynasty handwritten gold scriptures known as rare treasures, and well-preserved earth tower.After visiting the colourful Danxia landforms, Zhangye Danxia landforms is China’s Danxia landforms development of the largest and best, one of the richest geomorphological shape of the region.Layers of alternating, magnificent, rich in form, colourful and strange, wonderful landscape people have to marvel at nature’s ingenious work. Especially the sunset Danxia more beautiful, colourful.For dinner, you can taste the local speciality snacks in Ganzhou Market.

After breakfast, we will go to the Horseshoe Temple Grottoes Scenic Spot by car. The Horseshoe Temple Grottoes is a tourist area integrating the art of grottoes, the scenery of the Qilian Mountains and the flavour of the Yugu people.Among them, the “Thirty-three days” grotto is the landmark of the Horseshoe Temple Grottoes, which is named after the legendary Heavenly Horse that drank water here and made hoof prints.In addition, the natural scenery here is also particularly beautiful, such as the open and spacious Orchid Ping, the Lotus Peak which looks like five lotus flowers in full bloom, the Linsong Waterfall, the lush virgin forest and so on.After lunch, drive to Jiayuguan, en route to visit the Jiuquan Park, also known as the Jiuquan Western Han Dynasty, history tells us that in the second year of Emperor Yuanhao of the Han Dynasty (121 B.C.), the Hussar General Huo Zaiwei’s westward campaign against the Xiongnu, a great victory here, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who gave the Imperial Wine as a reward, Huo Zaiwei to the merits of the whole army, there are many people with little wine, so he poured the wine into the spring and drank it with the generals, so the name of the “Jiuquan”.The name “Wine Spring” was given to it.After the visit, we will go to Jiayuguan to check in the hotel and have a rest.

After breakfast, visit the City Tower of Jiayuguan Pass,Jiayuguan Pass was built in 1372, the entire pass construction is strong and majestic, magnificent, is the western end of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty master, since ancient times for the first pass of the Hexi, is the Ming Dynasty Great Wall along the nine towns under the jurisdiction of more than 1,000 passes in the most heroic and dangerous one, well-preserved to this day, the history is known as the throat of the Hexi, is the traffic of the ancient Silk Road fortress.After lunch, we will go to Dunhuang by car, and after arriving at Dunhuang, we will have free time,You can stroll through the Dunhuang Night Market.

After breakfast, we will visit the Yardang Landforms,When the whole like a medieval castle, which is geological changes in the natural wind carved sand cut results, is the masterpiece of nature’s ingenious work.On the way back to visit the Yumen Pass Scenic Area.The Yumen Pass, also known as the Small Square Plate City, is a key pass on the Silk Road leading to the northern part of the Western Regions. “The Qiang flute has no need to complain about the willow, and the spring breeze does not pass through the Yumen Pass.” The sad and desolate mood in the poem strongly infects people, triggering their longing for this ancient and magical fortress.In the Yumen Pass Scenic Spot, you can also visit the only well-preserved Great Wall of the Han Dynasty built in the Gobi Desert more than 2,000 years ago, as well as the Hecang City, which was the most important food and weapons warehouse of the Yumen Pass during the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

After breakfast, you will be driven to the desert wonder Mingshashan Crescent Spring,Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring is famous for the wonderful landscape of “mountain springs coexisting with sand and water”, which is known as “one of the most beautiful scenery outside the Seychelles”, enjoy the magical beauty of sand and spring depending on each other, the sand does not flood the spring, and the spring does not run out of water, or ride a camel and walk in the desert to experience the hardships of the ancients in theSilk Road, or ride a camel in the desert to experience the hardships of the ancients in the Silk Road.After lunch, we will visit Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site, which has 735 caves, 45,000 square metres of murals and more than 2,400 coloured sculptures, making it the richest, oldest and largest treasure house of Buddhist art in the world.Dinner: Free time, or watch the show “Dunhuang Again”, which features the most Dunhuang art.

After breakfast, free activities, or ride to the countryside around Dunhuang, enjoy the rural landscape of Dunhuang countryside, walk into the local farmhouse home visits, chat with the local elderly, if you have the opportunity to taste in the local farmhouse Farmer’s meal, and then ride to the Liuyuan railway station, take the train to Turfan, after arriving at the hotel to rest.

After breakfast, visit the Flaming Mountain, the Flaming Mountain is the hottest place in China, the highest temperature in summer up to 47.8 ℃, the highest temperature of the ground up to 70 ℃ or more, is a veritable “China’s hot pole”.Here to feel the Journey to the West in the Tang Monk four masters and disciples to go to the West to fetch the scriptures of the hardship. Visit the Berziklik Grottoes, the caves were excavated in the late North and South Dynasties, the Tang Five Dynasties to the Yuan this has been one of the centres of Buddhism in the Western Region, this was once the royal monastery of the migratory birds of Gaochang.There are 83 caves, 57 existing, mural area of 1200 plane metres, after the introduction of Islam into Turpan, Buddhism declined, Berziklik Thousand Buddha Cave with the decline.In spite of this, the remnants of the murals are rich in content, colourful, still not lost as a large-scale cultural and artistic treasures.Afterwards, we will take the bus to visit Tuyugou Mazha Village, which is the oldest existing Uyghur village in Xinjiang, with a history of more than 1,700 years, and still preserves the oldest Uyghur folklore, which has pure and simple folklore, fresh and bright air, and delicious food waiting for you, and is even known as the “living fossil of folklore”.

After breakfast, visit the Old Town of Jiahe.Jiaoxi Imperial City is the largest, oldest and best-preserved city of raw earth architecture in the world, and the most complete urban relic preserved in China for more than 2,000 years, where the Anxi Capital, the highest military and political institution in the western region of the Tang Dynasty, was first located.It is an earthen city built by digging deep down from the ground, a home carefully carved out of an earthen hillock. It is the most complete urban relic preserved in China for more than 2,000 years, and the only specimen for the study of ancient cities.Afterwards, we will visit the ancient underground water conservancy project Kan’erjing, which is the first underground water conservancy project in China, and the second underground water conservancy project in China.This is a special irrigation system in the Xinjiang region of water conservancy projects, the use of topography, without power can be diverted to irrigate, in Turpan there are nearly 1,000 Kanye wells, which is one of the three major ancient Chinese man-made projects with the Great Wall of China, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is also known as the Great Wall of China.Visit the largest existing pagoda in Xinjiang, which has a history of more than 200 years and a novel and chic Islamic pagoda – Sugong Pagoda.It was built by the famous Uyghur patriot Emin Hezhuo, the king of Turpan County, during the Qing Dynasty, in order to repay the favour of the Qing Dynasty, to express his devotion to God, and to make his life’s work known to the future generations.In the afternoon, we will go to Urumqi by car and check in the hotel after arrival.

After breakfast, take a bus to Tianshan Tianchi to visit. Tianchi is a half-moon shaped natural alpine lake.The lake water is clear, crystal like jade; far away from the snowy mountains and glaciers towering majestically; surrounded by mountains, green grass, it is said that this is the legendary Queen Mother of the West inhabited the Yaochi Wonderland.Return to Urumqi in the afternoon. Visit the Erdaoqiao International Bazaar, known as the epitome of Central Asian style,The Erdaoqiao Grand Bazaar is the largest in the world, and it is the meeting place and exhibition centre of Xinjiang’s tourism industry, with typical Islamic architecture, and richly ethnic catering, entertainment and trade, and it can be said to be the real “Window on Xinjiang”.Here you can experience the minority customs and experience free shopping.

After breakfast, free time, fly back to KL End of tour