What To Expect

Day 1: Arrive in Dunhuang
• Mingsha Shan - Echoing-Sand Mountain

  Meet your private tour guide at the airport of Dunhuang ( DNH ), or Dunhuang Railway Station. You will be driven to the Mingsha Shan - Echoing-Sand Mountain. Ride on the backs of camels and climb to get to the top of the dune. Along the way, there are splendid sights: golden sand, the rolling desert, a tranquil lake and the beautiful sunset.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Crescent Moon Pool

  Also, you’ll never miss out on the Crescent Moon Pool, Just like its name indicates, the Crescent Pool is in a natural shape of half-moon.According to historical record, the lake has been in existence for hundreds of years without ever being buried by the sand.

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: YES

• Shazhou Nightly Market

  This is the biggest night market in the area. You will see a lot of local small commodities and it is a great place to experience the local food culture. Your wonderful tour will ends here, your tour guide and driver will take you back to your hotel in Dunhuang.

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

Day 2: Dunhuang — Jiayuguan
• Mogao Caves

  Meet your guide and driver in your hotel lobby and transfer you to Visitors' Center of Mogao Grottoes, an UNESCO listed World Heritage Site, start your exciting sightseeing tour from to Mogao Caves and Digital Film Center, Located in the Gobi desert, the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas feature beautiful wall fresco paintings and more than 3,000 sculptures dating from the forth to the fourteenth century.Then, a professional cave guide will lead you to explore about 7 to 9 caves closely.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Yadan National Geological Park

  After lunch you will visit the the geological phenomena of Yadan Park have been created over time by erosion of the soft earth by rain and wind, leaving unusual rock formations.In the park, you can get a view of uniquely-shaped rocks like Mongolian tent, Stone Bird, Peacock and others. Make full use of your imagination, you may find some rocks with some miniatures similar to famed architectures, like the Potala Palace in Tibet, Heaven Temple in Beijing or something else.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Jiayuguan

  Then driven to Jiayuguan, you will be drop-off at your Jiayuguan hotel.

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

Day 3: Jiayuguan-Zhangye
• Jiayuguan Fortress

  Meet up your friendly private guide and driver at your hotel in the early morning, you will visit Jiayuguan Fortress. Standing among vast desert and surrounded by rolling mountains, Jiayuguan Fortress looks like a dignified general guarding the grand land. It was constructed with the most integrated defensive system: an inner city, an outer city, and a moat. Besides functioning as a frontier military fortress, it was also an important traffic hub along the Silk Road, the oldest worldwide trading route.

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: YES

• Great Wall at Jiayuguan Pass

  Then drive to the Great Wall at Jiayuguan Pass, is which the most western pass of the Ming Great Wall, is known as one of the Chinese traffic fortress, the three wonders of the Great Wall (East Shanhaiguan, Zhenbeitai, Jiayuguan).

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: YES

• Zhangye Danxia Geopark

  Then drive to the Zhangye Danxia Geopark, you will visit the 'Color Palette Overturned by God’ — the Zhangye Danxia Geopark, which is home to the Rainbow Mountains. It is praised as God's palette with its interlaced lines, colorful tones and magnificent paintings. Then driven to Zhangye, you will be drop-off at your Zhangye hotel.

  Duration: 3 hours

  Admission Included: YES

Day 4: Zhangye Departure