Spots:Free Program

Welcome to Lanzhou! You will be picked up by local tour guide at the airport hall or train station, and then be escorted to your hotel in Lanzhou city in a private vehicle.

After check in, you can hang out around Lanzhou City to experience local conditions and customs,You can go to take a walking along the Yellow River, even cruise on the river. or hike up to the top of the White Pagoda Mountain to enjoy the fresh air, beautiful scenery. 

Spots:Bingling Grottoes

Today after breakfast, we will drive to visit the Binglingsi Grottoes, about 2.5 hours from Lanzhou. Then you need to take about 25-minute boat trip through an artificial lake, walking on a quiet and flat path in a narrow valley, having rapid walls both sides, you can see a huge sitting Buddha statue on the cliff of the cave.

There are 694 stone statues and clay sculpture 82 in Bingling Grottoes, 776 in total. The main figures are Sakyamuni Buddha, Avalokitesvara, Amitayus, Maitreya Buddha and various Bodhisattvas, Buddhas and so on. After sightseeing here, we drive back to Lanzhou.

Spots:Danxia Landform Geological Park

Take bullet train to Zhangye, Lunch first, then head for Linze County to visit Danxia Landform Geological Park, Admire the Danxia Landform, where you can witness bright multicolored mountains formed by the power of nature. You can witness peaks with yellow, reddish and rainbow layers under the rosy rays of sunset. Afterwards, will return to the hotel in Zhangye.

Spots:Zhangye Giant Buddha Temple

Visit Giant Buddha Temple in the morning, famous for a huge clay reclining Buddha statue,the Buddha statue was carved by woods with a length of 34.5 meters, telling the story of Buddha’s Nirvana.  it's a large complex with regal arrangements built in Xixia Dynasty(1098), and keeps many precious Buddhist scriptures and wall paintings.
Bus to Jiayuguan in the late afternoon(about 4H).

Spots:Jiayuguan Pass, Overhanging Great Wall

Visit Jiayuguan Overhanging Great Wall andJiayuguan Pass in the morning. The Great Wall is a part of the Great Wall. The wall here was built on the ridge with the gradient of 45 degrees. It is high in the air and it looks as if it fell down from the top of the hill. So people refer to this section of the Great Wall as the 'Suspended Wall'. 

The Jiayuguan Pass is a Ming Dynasty fort guards the strategic Jiayuguan pass, which was known as 'the strongest pass under heaven'.  It is a complex of towers, city walls and other military buildings covering more than 25,000 square meters. The city wall is nearly 11 meters high, and comprises an outer and inner wall. There are two large gates standing at the east and the west of the inner wall. Walkways lead to the top of the wall, allowing horses to climb up the wall.Then bus to Dunhuang (about 5H)

Spots:Mogao Grottoes, Singing Sand Mountains and Crescent Moon Spring.

Visit Mogao Grottoes in the morning, which holds the world's richest treasure house of Buddhist sutras, murals and sculptures. Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao are famous for their statues and wall paintings, spanning 1,000 years of Buddhist art.

After lunch, go to the Singing Sand Mountains and Crescent Moon Spring. Climb to the top of a sand dune to enjoy the marvelous spectacle of the crescent moon-shaped spring lying in the desert. Ride a camel in the desert and imagine how caravans crossed the desert over 1,000 years ago. You can also take photos of a desert sunset. Visit Shazhou Night Market in the evening.

Spots:Free program

Today is free for you until your tour guide transfer you to the airport in time for your flight or drop you off at the airport.
You can freely visit Dunhuang Museum in the morning, Dunhuang Museum vividly reflects the flourishing social development and cultural exchange between China and the West in the past.