Gansu Videos

Located about 6 kilometers to Dunhuang City, the Crescent Lake is surrounded by the Echoing-sand Mountain dune. Famed as the No.1 Spring in the Gobi Dessert, the Crescent Lake never dries up. Visit Crescent Lake to view an oasis in the dessert and experience sand adventures like camel riding and sand sliding.

Located in the southeast of Tianshui City in Gansu Province, Maiji Caves, together with Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang and Yungang Grottoes in Datong, are the most renowned grottoes in China. There are 194 niches with more than 7,200 stone and clay sculptures. Also, there are around 1,300 square meters (about 1, 555 square yards) of murals in the caves. Cave carvings began in the Late Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC) and further worked on in the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the cliff of the Maiji Mountain, these caves are only reachable by plank roads.

Gansu is called the golden part of the Silk Road. Here you can see the well-known Bingling Grottos, mist-covered high gorges and huge lakes, the Danxia stone forest with thousands of peaks, rare dinosaur footprints and migrating birds in flocks. In Maiji Mountain, which looks like a stack of wheat, there are over 7,000 sculptures made in different Chinese dynasties. If Dunhuang can be called the crossroad where the world’s four major cultures meet, the Mogao Caves should be called a sacred cultural temple of humanity. The long winding camel caravans, the never ceasing Crescent Lake, and the wonderful great Yardan landform are all breathtaking.