Tour code: SWDH001
3 Days Dunhuang City Tour
-
Trip highlights
The surrounding landscape grants Dunhuang City with an impressive scenery. Various temples, pawnshops, warehouses, silk shops and bars scatter the streets. Dunhuang's greatest significance lies in its unique grottoes, like Mogao Grottoes...
-
Tour price
-
Destinations
Xian, Dunhuang
-
Tour type
Private tour available everyday, private tour guide & driver
Day by Day Itinierary
| Day 1 Xian, Dunhuang ( ) |
| Our English speaking tour guide will hold a welcome sign to meet you at Dunhuang Airport according to your flight schedule, then transferred to the hotel. The rest of the day is on your own to explore Dunhuang. |
Dunhuang | In history, Dunhuang was an important town on the ancient Silk Road. Its greatest significance lies in its unique grottoes, located among a wilderness of yellow sands. Researchers say there are 735 grottoes in all, with the Mogao Grottoes providing a representative example. These caves were cut int…… |
|
 |
| [ Optional ] Dunhuang Museum: The Dunhuang Meseum is built on the former residence of Taoist Wang Yuanlu, who found the Cave by chance about 100 years ago. It display the cultural relics found in the world-famous "Sutras Cave" of Mogao Grotto. |
|
| Day 2 Dunhuang ( B,L ) |
| Full day tour to visit the Mogao Caves and the Crescent Lake. |
Crescent Moon Spring & Mingsha Mountain | 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 dr…… | Mogao Grottoes | The Mogao Grottoes (Mogao Ku) also known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, constitute one of the three major Buddhist grotto sites in China. It is one of three noted grottoes in China and also the largest, best preserved and richest treasure house of Buddhist art in the world. |
|
 |
| [ Optional ] Dunhuang Shopping: Shopping in Dunhuang, you can not only buy adoring special products and handicraft products, but also hear background stories and beautiful legends of traditional culture. |
|
| Day 3 Dunhuang ( B,L ) |
| Morning sightseeing includes the Hecang Fortress, which supplies like food and wine were tranported here from nearby towns to be stored for the armies that guarded the Yumen Guan Pass. Later you will continue your trip to next destination. Many passengers like our program of 9 days Xian-Dunhuang-Turpan-Urumqi-Kashgar train+flight tour package, check more details at: http://www.chinadiscover.net/china-vacations/day_by_day.aspx?tc=SWXJ001 |
Yumenguan Pass | Yumenguan Pass, located on a hillock 90 kms northwest of Dunhuang city, used to be one of the two critical defensive passes protecting Dunhuang from invasion from the West about two thousand years ago. |
|
 |
| [ Optional ] Train Y951 from Dunhuang to Turpan: Take a train from Liuyuan Railway Station (138km, 2.5 hours driving) to Turpan. Train No.: Y951 (2018-0704) (leave Dunhuang at 20h18, arrive Turpan at 07h04 next day), stay overnight on the train. The best train ticket is a soft sleeper ticket. |
|