8Days Lanzhou-Xining-Zhangye-Jiayuguan-Dunhuang Budget Tours

Arrive in Lanzhou, Local guide Meet you then transfer you to your hotel. Next relax by youself

After breakfast, visit the White Pagoda Park. Then drive to Liujiaxia Dam where you would board a small boat for a stunning river trip through dramatic scenery to the Bingling Temple Grottoes, one of the five Grottoes in China. After the tour, drive back to Lanzhou.

After breakfast, visit the Iron Bridge and the Statue of Mother Yellow River, as well as the Waterwheel Garden. Take fast train to Xining city.then visitTibetan style Ta’er Monastery. In the first month, the fourth month, the six month or the ninth month of Chinese calendar, you will have chance to experience the royal temple fair in the temple.

After hotel breakfast, please go to meet your guide and driver in hotel lobby. Then you will drive for about 2.5 hours to Qinghai Lake. That salt water lying in northeast part of Qinghai – Tibet Plateau is the best known attraction in Qinghai to normal tourists. The birds island in the lake is the paradise for many kinds of birds. Each summer, thousands of birds fly to Qinghai Lake to escape from hot summer and the ground of grove will be covered with birds’ stool. And in August the lake area will be covered by golden rape flowers. You could optionally take a cruise ship to have some exciting time there. In the afternoon you will be escorted back to hotel.

Morning take fast train to Zhangye city,3hours on the way. check in hotel. The city is called “Golden Zhangye” by people. It was an important hub of trading and transportation on the Silk Road. The famous Italian traveler Marco Polo lived here for one year. Follow us to explore its natural beauty and witness its glorious past. One full day tour to Danxia National Geological Park.this landform area is known as“the eye candy of Zhangye”. Many artists admire this masterpiece as it is unbelievably colorful, like a n imaginative oil painting .

In the morning, drive to Jiayuguan,3h on the way. visit Jiayuguan Pass, the west starting point of Great Wall in Ming Dynasty followed by visiting Overhanging Great Wall,then drive to Dunhuang,4.5h on the way, check in

visit the Mogao Caves - the World Art Treasure House. It is the world's most important sites of ancient Buddhist culture. The grottoes, also know as Caves of the Thousand Buddha, preserve nearly a thousand years of Buddhist cave temple architecture, clay sculpture, mural paintings, and manuscripts, dating from the 5th to the 14th centuries. Shazhou Night Market is the largest night market in Dunhuang, popular with tourists from all over the world, which is a wonderful place both to eat and to socialize. Dunhuang used to be called Shazhou. The market is divided into five zones - food & snacks, art crafts, Sanbaotai teahouses, agricultural products and souvenirs, which form a bustling night picture with unique folk customs.

Visit the Echoing Sand Mountains and Crescent Moon Lake. You can experience a short camel ride along the trip from Echoing Sand Mountains to Crescent Moon Lake. Transfer to airport,see you off.

Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets;
Chinese visa fees;
Excess baggage charged by Airlines;
Tips to guides and drivers;
Personal expenses;
Personal travel accident insurance;
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