Six tourist attractions worth visiting in Dunhuang, Chinese Gansu
Dunhuang city belongs to Gansu city of Jiuquan Province, located in the most western end of Hexi Corridor, located in Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces (regions) of the junction, Dunhuang is a national historical and cultural city, city node of the Silk Road, to "Dunhuang Grottoes", "Dunhuang famous mural" days, rich in tourism resources and there are many scenic spots in Mogao Grottoes, Mingsha mountain, Crescent Spring, Yumen Pass, sunshine etc..
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Mogao Grottoes: commonly known as the thousand Buddha cave, located in the southeast of Gansu Province, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City, is the largest and most abundant Buddhist art in the world. Is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, the world's cultural heritage, and Yungang Grottoes, Shanxi Datong Henan Luoyang Longmen Grottoes, Gansu Tianshui Maijishan grottoes and called Chinese four caves.
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Dunhuang: Gansu province Mingsha Shan is located in the southern suburbs of Dunhuang city seven kilometers, in the transitional zone of the Taklimakan Desert and Badan Jilin desert, an area of about 200 square kilometers. Ningxia city Shapotou, Inner Mongolia Dalate defender's silver ring Kentala group and Xinjiang Barkol Mingsha mountain known as the four China the mingsha.
Crescent Spring: located in Gansu city of Dunhuang Province, nearly 100 meters long from north to south, east-west width of 25 meters, the most shallow water in the west, about 5 metres deep, such as curved crescent, hence the name, "desert first spring", since the Han Dynasty as the "eight Dunhuang" one of the National Scenic area.
Yumen Pass: located in Gansu city of Dunhuang Province, Yumen Pass and other important pass pass, are located in Dunhuang County, long county, are all important for Wei governance, zhunbing land. The ruins of the Yumen Pass, as a joint inscription of China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, is successfully included in the world heritage list, the Silk Road: the Changan Tianshan corridor network.
Yang: located in the antique beach near Gansu province in the southwest of Dunhuang City, is the ancient China outbound traffic throat, is the inevitable Silk Road pass. Yang gousse built in the desert, archaeologists found that Yang hold "Kwan, million people don't open" topography is.
Dunhuang Yadan national geological park place is located in Dunhuang 200 kilometers west of Gansu aka three sand was found in the Han Dynasty, the position in the ancient Silk Road in Yumen area beyond Shanhaiguan line by. Three long Shayadan landforms, its trend and the prevailing northwest wind and vertical, and mountain flood flow in the same direction, and the formation of second major scenic spots of Yumen Pass in Dunhuang, because of its strange characteristics, so it is the devil city.