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China optional tours: Lanzhou/Jiayuguan/Dunhuang |
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Lanzhou optional tour
1. Essential Lanzhou incl. 2 ways station transfer, a Chinese dinner,private car and guide and entrance tickets.
AM: Guansu Provincial Historical Museum,mother statues of the Yellow River and Zhongshan Bridge
PM: White Pagoda Park
2. Liujiaxia Dam and Bingling Grottoes Full Day Tour
3. 6 Days the Valued and Safety Jiuzhaigou: Bingling Gorttoes,Lapuleng Temple,Zecha Stone Forest and Gahai Lake,Langmusi,Huanglong Temple,Jiuzhaigou and Mounigou
Jiayuguan optional tour
4. Essential Jiayuguan incl. 2 ways airport/station transfer, 2 Chinese meals,private car and guide and entrance tickets.
AM: Jiayuguan Pass, Great Wall Museum,Overhanging Great Wall
PM: The First Beacon Tower of Great Wall,Weijin Tomb Paintings then have a supper at local famours bazzar.
Dunhuang optional tours
5. Essential Dunhuang 1 Day incl. 2 ways airport/station transfer, Chinese lunch on each sightseeing day, private car and guide and entrance tickets.
AM:Mogao Grottoes PM: Crescent Moon Spring/Singing Sand Mountains
6. Dunhuang Excursion 1 Day:
AM:Yadan National Geological Park PM:Yumenguan Pass,Yangguan Pass
Price List of optional tours(in RMB totally)
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| Jiayuguan/Dunhuang optional tours: |
pp(>10P grp) |
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| 1. LZ Essential 1 Day |
280 |
1230 |
1480 |
1650 |
1950 |
2180 |
2300 |
2490 |
| 2. LZ Bingling 1 Day |
460 |
1790 |
2070 |
2430 |
2690 |
2980 |
3280 |
3460 |
| 4. JYG Essential 1 Day |
380 |
1390 |
1580 |
1880 |
2250 |
2430 |
2620 |
2880 |
| 5. DH Essential 1 Day |
700 |
1920 |
2370 |
2830 |
3390 |
4010 |
4690 |
5180 |
| 6. DH Excursion 1 Day |
760 |
2200 |
2690 |
3130 |
3560 |
4230 |
4780 |
5260 |
| 7. Airport/Station Transfer 1 Way |
60 |
360 |
400 |
460 |
490 |
520 |
550 |
590 |
| 3. LZ-JZG Valued and Safety 6 Day |
2860 |
8780 |
10130 |
12980 |
14380 |
16250 |
19080 |
20880 |
| Including hotel transfers, entrance tickets, English speaking guide
service and lunch. Excluding meal if tour peroid is less than 5hr. and other tour services not indicated, tips for guide
and driver |
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Lanzhou is a China hub city and capital of Gansu province in northwestern China. It is not only the geometrical center of China but also a center in the northwest in terms of transportation, telecommunication and the Silk Road Tourism Ring. Covering an area of 1631.6 square KM, Lanzhou is home to a population of 3.14 million, including Han, Hui, Bao’an, Dongxiang, Tibetan, Yugu and Sala and more.
Lanzhou used to be a key point connecting the central China and the western region as well as a vital city on the Silk Road. Today, Lanzhou still is a hub of the Silk Road, with Maiji Caves to the east, Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves to the west, Labrang Monastery to the south and Dunhuang Mogao Caves to the north.
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Guansu Provincial Historical Museum in Lanzhou, covering 180,000 square meters, boasts 75,000 cultural relics, ranging from natural specimens to historical, revolutionary and national heritages, of which more than 110 pieces are of the first class, including Gansu color-painted pottery, and bamboo slips on medication of the Han era, etc. The most famous piece in the collection of Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD) bronzes is the Galloping Horse of Wuwei that is accompanied by an impressive array of chariots and carriages.
At the the part of historical relics exhibits about 1,500 items, mainly including painted pottery bowls, vessels and agricultural tools, and excavations from the Silk Road of the Han (206BC-220AD) and Tang (618-907) periods. The unearthed pottery objects bear the patterns of birds, frogs, flowers or leaves. Among them, pottery vessels of Majiayao Culture excavated from the region of the Yellow River Valley are the best. Geometric motifs like parallel lines, circles, crosses, and spirals (volutes) were used. |
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White Pogoda Park located northen part of Lanzhou City is a pleasently green and shady place tiered with stones steps,and replete with gateways,pavilions,painted corridors and temples. A 600-year-old Yuan Dynasty pagoda(restored during the Ming)seven storeys high is the central architectural momument. Nearby is the five-arched Zhongshan Bridge,constructed in 1907 with German and American engineering expertise and grandly dubbed “the first bridge over the Yellow River”. |
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The Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, on the upstream of the Yellow River, was completed in 1974 with a reserve of 5.7 billion cubic meters of water. It was the first one million kw hydropower station the country had designed and built on its own. |
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Bingling Grottoes, 70 KM southwest of lanzhou, is a Buddhist cave complex in a canyon along the Yellow River. Begun in 420 AD during the Western Jin Dynasty, the site contains dozens of caves and caverns filled with outstanding examples of carvings, sculpture, and frescoes. The great Maitreya Buddha is more than 27 meters tall and is similar in style to the great Buddhas that once lined the cliffs of Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Access to the site is only by boat from Yongjing in the summer or fall. As ususal, first visiting is Liujiaxia Dam,where has one of the largest hydro-electricity power station in China. Then navigating upstram on the one way of Yellow River about 1 hour to reach the Bingling Grottoes. |
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Lapuleng Temple,built in 1709,located in 280KM westsouth from Lanzhou,is the largest Tibetan Buddhist religious center in China outside of Tibet. There are 6 scripture halls, 84 Buddha halls, 31 Tibetan styled buildings, 30 Buddha palaces, and more than 10000 rooms for the monk accommodation. In where, you can hike among the longest rotating rollers in buddist(Zhu Jing Tong or Mani roller) all over the world enjoying the unique splendid Gong Tang Bao Ta. |
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In 1998, the Zecha Stone Forest and Gahai Lake together was listed national nature reserve. Scenic spot tube 22 kilometers with an area of 2 million acres, is China's rare forests, grasslands,wetlands and stone forest landscape.
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Langmusi is a village on the border of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. A sleepy village in a remote breathtaking location inhabited by a mix of Han Chinese, Hui and Tibetans. It is said that the provincial borderline runs through the middle of town with Sertri Gompa in Gansu and Kirti Gompa in Sichuan. The power struggles between the two Gompa may have been the reason for the border location.
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Jiayuguan city is located in the middle part of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, which was the gullet of the ancient" Silk Road." It has a population of 200,000 and a total area of 2,935 square meters.
Jiayuguan is an industrial city flourishing with a large iron & steel production base. People of many different ethnicities, such as Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan, Hazake, Tu, Sala, Manchu, and Mongolian, live here. As Jiayuguan is in the warm variable zone, it has an arid climate.
The Jiayuguan pass is trapezoid-shaped with a perimeter of 733 meters and an area of more than 33,500 square meters.The total length of the city wall is 733 meters |
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and the height is 11 meters.There are two gates: one on the east side of the pass, and another on the west side. The south and north sides of the pass are connected to the Great Wall. There is a turret on each corner of the pass. On the north side, inside the two gates, there are wide roads leading to the top of the pass. Jiayuguan has three defense lines: an inner city, an outer city, and a moat. |
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Jiayuguan Pass,located at the narrowest point of the western section of the Hexi Corridor, 6 kilometers southwest of Jiayuguan city in Gansu province,is the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall of China. Meanwhile it is one of the most important 3 passes,rest ruin as Juyongguan Pass and Shanhaiguan Pass.
The pass looks like trapezoid-shaped,733M perimeter long,11M high and an area of more than 33,500 square meters. There are east gate and west gate with tower to be insterested in: an inscription of "Jiayuguan" in Chinese is written on a tablet at the building at the west gate. The south and north sides of the pass are connected to the Great Wall. There is a turret on each corner of the pass.
Among the passes on the Great Wall, Jiayuguan is the most intact ancient fortification. The pass is also known by the name the "First and Greatest Pass Under Heaven",which is used to be confused with the "First Pass under Heaven",a name for Shanhaiguan at the east end of the Great Wall near Qinhuangdao, Hebei.Also Jiayuguan is a key waypoint of the ancient Silk Road.
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Overhanging Great Wall,located 11KM northwest from Jiayuguan City,is an extending part of the defensive fortication of Jiayuguan Pass. It was formed in 1539 during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) to strengthen Jiayuguan area's safty.
Built on the eastern slope of Mt. Heishan (Black Mountain) the Great Wall is not visible to anyone looking from west to east. Any invador thought as long as they rounded the Jiayuguan Pass, enter the inner easily. In fact, it will be found a more solid overhanging Great Wall is waiting for when climbing Mt.Heishan with their great efforts.
This part of Great Wall is composed of local gravel and yellow earth with ramed technoly and has 3 big mounds. In 1987, it had been rebuild to appear 750M long. So called as overhanging from the outline shap as a suspended iron arm on the canyon. Since it looks like very grand, it is used to admire as Western Badaling Great Wall.
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The First Beacon Tower of Great Wall is located in 7.5 kilometers south away from the Jiayuguan Pass. Beyond the end, there are the cliffs over the Taolai river that constitute a natural wall very difficult to pass.
Weijin Tomb Paitings,located about 15 KM northeast of Jiayuguan, covered over 1,400 tombs built on the peroid of Dynasty Wei and Jin(about 3-5 AD). Most paintings recorded scenes of owner carefree life and servant's hard working in living time reflecting the political, cultural, military, and scientific developments. Weijin tomb paintings is a typical sample of Chinese realism art, eralier than Magao Grottoes. |
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Dunhuang, situated in the common boundary of Gansu Province, Qinghai Province and Xinjiang Province,was the hub of middle and eastern silk routes in ancient times. From Mt.Qilian in the south, Mt. Mazong in the north and desert from east to west, the landform of Dunhuang City is a declining basin-plain from west to northeast, high in the north and south, and low in the middle.
In ancient times, Dunhuang once was the trade center between China and its western neighbors. On that peroid, it was the most westerly frontier military |
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garrison in China. With the flourishing of trade along the Silk Road, Dunhuang was prompted to become the most open area in international trade in Chinese history. It provided the only access westward for western nationalities.
Today, Dunhuang is a typical tourist city, clean and beautiful. For a western city in China, it has become more accesible for people to come and go as they please. Transportation is much more efficient, ensuring that your wonderful trip runs smoothly. May to September is the best time to visit, so be sure to plan your trip during these months. Including Dunhuang City in your tour is a decision you won't regret! |
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The Mogao Grottoes form a system of 492 temples 25km southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. Construction of the Buddhist cave shrines began in 366 CE as places to store scriptures and art. The Mogao Caves are the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes and, along with Longmen Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes and Dazu Grottoes, are one of the four famous ancient sculptural sites of China.
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Scriptures at Dunhuang around 1900, Dunhuang gained a great fame for its Buddhist art relics. The UNESCO has listed Dunhuang's Mogao Grottoes on its list of the world's cultural legacies worthy of special protection in December of 1987.
The mural paintings of Dunhuang are especially famous and focus on presenting images of the Buddha and Buddhist legends, but also include examples of landscape paintings, historic architectures, portraits of the noble patrons, various auspicious animals, plants and other decorations. One of the main themes of the frescoes is the fiction; heavenly maidens painted into the frescoes act as frames on the murals or otherwise decorate the paintings. |
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Crescent Moon Spring is 6km south of Dunhuang in the Singing Sands Mountains and is quite literally an oasis in the desert. The Spring's name derives from the crescent moon shape the small pool of spring water has taken between two large sand dunes. Although the area is very dry, the pool doesn't dry up as one might expect.
The Singing Sand Mountains are famous for the sounds the wind makes when blowing over the dunes. Also, the sand is said to be rather noisy when tread upon. The dunes are also famous for their size, some reaching 100m or more, relatively stable despite the fact that the dunes beyond the mountains shift frequently. Also, the sands are said to regain form overnight if tread upon the day before. |
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“Yadan,” which refers to a precipitous hillock in the Uygur language, is a kind of wind-eroded landform. Yadan landforms rise above the flat Gobi Desert and cover a vast area. Due to its eccentric landforms, the hard-to-spot roads, low-lying terrain, strong magnetism and howling sounds made by the wind, the area is also called "Ghost City" by local people.
Yadan National Geologic Park is located on the northwest of Dunhuang, 180 kilometers away from the city. Yadan Landforms is the largest in scale, fully developed in geology and most valuable for ornament in the world. It is 25 kilometers long from east to west and 18 kilometers wide from south to north. The scenery area can be divided into two parts. The scenery sites have an infinite variety of fantastic phenomena and the superlative craftsmanship of nature. Many world famous architects can find their miniatures here.
It is a physiognomy landscape formed by Aeolian erosion. It is composed of various sculptures, and one may find numerous well known architectures here. Because of the eeriness of the sound of the wind blowing at night, the locals refer to it as Ghost Town. |
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Yangguan Pass is located about 70 kilometers southwest of the city of Dunhuang. Yumen Pass another grand pass is 90 km northwest of Dunhuang, also acted as important passageways to Central Asia, India and Europe. Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC - 24AD) built these two important passes in 121BC when he opened the areas west of the Yellow River in Gansu and established the four prefectures of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang there.
In order to resist the Huns (Xiongnu) and manage the West Region, emperor of the Han dynasty established Yangguan Pass and Yumenguan Pass. It was the main access to West Region and an important conjunction on the south route of the Silk Road.
Yangguan Pass once was the gateway to the Xiyu area and an important pass on the Silk Road. Buddhist monk Xuan Zang set foot there on his return to Chang'An (Xian) from India. During that period, Yangguan Pass, as a military stronghold, was rich in water and was an oasis.
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Traffic Information Refer to Beijing,Lanzhou,Jiayugan and Dunhuang(Liuyuan) |
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| INTERZONE |
TRAIN NO. |
DPT.TIME |
ARR.TIME |
HARD SEAT |
HARD SLEEPER |
| BEIJING>LANZHOU |
T151 |
14:08 |
10:10(next day) |
215 |
377 |
| T27 |
21:30 |
15:06(ND) |
| LANZHOU>BEIJING |
T152 |
14:52 |
12:15 |
| T28 |
12:36 |
07:34 |
| LANZHOU>DUNHUANG |
N857 |
17:58 |
07:56 |
143 |
254 |
| K591 |
19:14 |
09:32 |
| DUNHUANG>LANZHOU |
N858 |
19:25 |
09:14 |
| K592 |
09:34 |
00:01 |
| BEIJING>JIAYUGUAN |
K43A |
12:02 |
20:39(next day) |
245 |
431 |
| T69 |
18:44 |
22:20(ND) |
281 |
491 |
| JIAYUGUAN>BEIJING |
K44A |
11:50 |
19:36(ND) |
245 |
431 |
| T70 |
08:26 |
13:38(ND) |
281 |
491 |
| JIAYUGUAN>DUNHUANG |
N857 |
03:32 |
07:56 |
54 |
105 |
| N591 |
05:07 |
09:32 |
| N853 |
07:12 |
12:09 |
31 |
68 |
| DUNHUANG>JIAYUGUAN |
N858 |
19:25 |
23:54 |
54 |
105 |
| N592 |
09:34 |
14:10 |
| N854 |
14:30 |
19:06 |
31 |
68 |
| LIUYUAN>URUMQI |
T192 |
00:32 |
09:50 |
201(hard sleeper) |
316(soft sleeper) |
| T197 |
22:28 |
07:43(ND) |
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1) There is no direct train between Beijing and Dunhuang. Stopover in Lanzhou or Jiayuguan has to be considered;
2) To reserve any turn train ticket in advance of 5 days and need 50RMB service charge per ticket;
3) It is strongly recomended to select valued 90RMB ticket of Express Air Bus on Jiayuguang-Dunhang. Both dept.time of bus is 09:00AM and 14:00PM daily, 5hr.driving end to terminal city. To book bus ticket needs 2 days earlier and 20RMB service fee per one;
4) On high season, the flight between Beijing to Jiayuguan or Dunhuang is available. |
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THE COST OF ENTRANCE TICKET ( In RMB/pp) |
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| JIAYUGUAN ITEM |
PRICE |
DUNHUANG ITEM |
PRICE |
| Jiayuguan Pass |
100 |
Mogao Grottoes |
180 |
| Great Wall Museum |
Crescent Moon Spring/Singing Sand Mountain |
120 |
| Overhanging Great Wall |
21 |
Yadan National Geological Park |
70 |
| The First Beacon Tower of Great Wall |
21 |
Yumenguan Pass |
40 |
| Weijin Tomb Paintings |
35 |
Yangguan Pass |
60 |
| LANZHOU ITEM |
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| Watet Wheel Park |
10 |
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| White Pagoda Park |
6 |
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| Bingling Grottoes |
50 |
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HOTEL ACCOMODATION (in RMB per room per night incl.abfs) |
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| HOTEL CLASS |
HIGH SEASON 4-11 |
LOW SEASON 12-3 |
EXTRA BED |
| ★★★★★ |
660 |
540 |
180 |
| ★★★★ |
460 |
340 |
180 |
| ★★★ |
320 |
240 |
160 |
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The rate of hotel room is based on a standard room of single or double occupancy, including service charge and 2 breakfasts. The rate is not valid during the period of Labor Day, National Day, the peroid of 9.6-9.12 and other important festival days, which shall be enquired otherwise. The rate of an extra bed is accounted as a half room.Above subject to change |
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