China – Gansu – West (Jiuquan, Jiayuguan, Jinchang, Wuwei)

VISITED BY: 215 NOMADS
What to do here
 
 World Heritage Sites
  • Mogao Caves
  • Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
  • The Great Wall
 Tentative WHS
  • Chinese Section of the Silk Road: Land routes in Henan Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; Sea Routes in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province and Quanzhou City, Fujian Province - from Western-Han Dynasty to Qing Dynasty (28/03/2008)
  • The Chinese Section of the Silk Roads (22/02/2016)
 Sights (Temporarily Reinstated)
  • Zhangye National Geopark
 Borders
  • China-Mongolia
 Villages and Small Towns
  • Gansu: Longwan
 Religious Temples
  • Dunhuang: Dunhuang Mosque
  • Dunhuang: Mogao Caves' Sanctuaries
 Experiences
  • Bhuddist chanting
  • Bodhi Day
  • Chinese New Year
  • Cold Food Festival
  • Dragon Boat Festival
  • Drink Baiju
  • Learn Chinese calligraphy
  • Longtaitou Festival
  • Mid-Autumn Festival
  • Monkey King Festival
  • Morning Outdoors Exercise in a group
  • Play/hear guzheng
  • Qingming Festival
  • Renri
  • Vesakha
  • Winter Clothes Day
  • Winter Solstice Festival
 Religious Monuments
  • Dunhuang: Mogao Caves North Big Statue
Gobi, Dunhuang, Mogao Caves
Christof Lochner
Mogao Grottoes; Sept. 2013
Steve Newcomer