In recent years, self-driving travel has become more and more popular, and many people choose to enter Tibet, go to Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia when they think of the grassland, but many people have forgotten this place in northwest China in the heat of entering Tibet and Xinjiang, and even in the eyes of many people, it is associated with desolation. It's Gansu!
1. Lanzhou
Liujiaxia
Liujiaxia is the first gorge of the Yellow River, where the water of the Yellow River turns a 90-degree bend and then flows westward through the canyon. The turbid water of the Yellow River in the illustration of the geography textbook has become clear and blue after the precipitation of the Liujiaxia Reservoir. Can you imagine that this is the water of the Yellow River?
Qingcheng Ancient Town
Historically, merchants from Qingcheng Beijing, Tianjin and Jin came and went, so the buildings in the town have both the luxurious atmosphere of Shanxi mansions and the elegant symmetry of Beijing courtyards. Here, you can not only admire the antique Ming and Qing Dynasty houses, but also see the 10,000 acres of lotus fields swaying in the wind, and even listen to the moving West Chamber.
2. Heavenly wishes
Heavenly Blessing Heaven Temple
Tianzhu Heavenly Temple is a Gelugpa temple of Tibetan Buddhism, which lasted for more than 1,000 years from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the early liberation. The south distance to the Heavenly Temple is Jinsha Gorge, here is famous for its strange and steep show, Xianming Gorge and Jinsha Gorge are separated by a river, the peaks and peaks are stacked, and the scenery is pleasant.
3. Wuwei
Liangzhou Confucius Temple
It is one of the three major Confucian temples in the country and is known as the "crown of Longyou School Palace". The largest Confucian temple in the northwest. The date of its construction is unknown. Located in the heart of the city. Although the architecture and layout are similar to other Confucian temples, the environment is elegant and the ancient buildings are well preserved. The most distinctive thing is the plaques hanging all over the roof, and there will be no shortage of plaques in the Confucian Temples everywhere, but only in the Wuwei Confucian Temple can you see this shocking scene.
White Pagoda Temple
Baita Temple was founded in the second year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (281), because the founder of the Third Order Sect, Xinxing Zen Master, was buried near the temple after his death, so it is also known as Xinxing Zen Master Pagoda. It is the ancestral court of the three-order religion of Sui and Tang Buddhism.
Baita Temple, located 23 kilometers south of the city in Baita Village, is a scenic spot that witnessed the historical event of Tibet's incorporation into China's territory, and is one of the attractions with cheap entrance fees and few tourists.
Tiantai Mountain Grottoes
Tianti Mountain Grottoes, also known as the Big Buddha Temple, is located in the south of Wuwei City 50 kilometers, is located in Dengshan Village, Zhonglu Township, was founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty of the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Beiliang, about 1600 years ago. The peaks of Tiantai Mountain are majestic, steep and steep, high into the sky, the mountain has stone steps, climb the steps and go up, the road is rugged, the shape is like a hanging ladder, so it is called Tiantai Mountain. In the grotto, the big Buddha sits on the mountain, the blue waves ripple under the feet, and the thin clouds entangle its body, constituting a magnificent spectacle of mountain, water, Buddha and clouds in one, it is a prestigious tourist attraction in Liangzhou.
4、张掖
Zhangye Danxia National Geopark
Colorful Danxia District is located in Nijiaying Township, Nantai Village, 1.7 kilometers south, located at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, where there is no gorgeous flowers, no verdant scenery, but there are thousands of purple and red scenery, here is the world's a touch of water-colored rouge.
Colorful Danxia presents different colors under the illumination of light, the ferroidite rock is red, the manganese rock is black, the argillaceous rock is gray, the phosphorous rock is gray-blue, the volcanic rock is orange-yellow, the conglomerate rock is cyan, all kinds of colors intersect, and the mountain naturally presents different colors.
Sunan Binggou Danxia
Binggou Danxia of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County is located at the junction of Qilian Mountain and Hexi Corridor, in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province. It is composed of maroon mudstone, shale, siltstone and light red conglomerate coarse sandstone, sand conglomerate and conglomerate. Because the sand conglomerate is relatively hard, after weathering, it forms a relatively convex layered rock convex.
Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon
Zhangye Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon is about 25 kilometers away from Zhangye urban area, and the geological structure belongs to the red bed landform, which refers to the red rock series formed by sedimentation from the Jurassic to the Cenozoic in the Tertiary of the Mesozoic Era, generally known as "red sand conglomerate", which has been 180 million to 240 million years ago.
5. Poplar forest in Quinta
Quinta poplar forest
Located in the west of Jinta County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, the Chaohu Forest Farm is part of the Three-North Shelterbelt System. There are tens of thousands of acres of poplar forests here, poplars in golden autumn and October, some of the green leaves have turned yellow, and the poplar trees that have turned yellow are as bright as the sun in the barren desert under the clear blue sky.
6. Jiuquan
Jiuquan Park
Jiuquan Park, located 1.9 kilometers east of the city's Drum Tower, covers an area of 270,000 square meters, and is the only intact Han-style garden in the Hexi Corridor, with a history of more than 2,000 years.
There are springs and lakes in the park, there are mountains and stones, and there are eight scenic spots in Jiuquan Scenic Spots, Moon Cave Golden Pearl, Western Han Dynasty Shengjing, Qilian Chengbo, Smoke and Cloud Depths, Quyuan Dining Show, Flower Moon Shuangqing, and Luban Evening Boat.
The first pier of the Great Wall
The first pier of the Great Wall, also known as the pier of the Lai River, is the southernmost pier of the Great Wall in the west of Jiayu Guanxi, the westernmost pier of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most spectacular and well-preserved ancient military pass along the Great Wall.
7, Dunhuang
At Guazhou Station, transfer from National Highway G30 to National Highway G3011, starting from Dunhuang:
Mogao Grottoes
A grotto, a world, a cave, a history. Murals, sculptures, scriptures, legends...... The Buddha who sits upright, the Bodhisattva who stands, the Guanyin with a thousand hands, the goddess who flies, the pipa that rebounds, and the Hu Ji in his arms, all of which are fascinating.
Crescent Spring
"The sky is clear and the sky is blue, and the crescent moon spring is beautiful. Silver Mountain is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and a pool of clear water and green ripples!" The clear yellow Mingsha Mountain and the clear crescent spring water are interdependent, and the strange and charming scenery continues unchanged for thousands of years.
The fatigue of the journey can be relaxed here, drink coffee, feel the artistic atmosphere here, the Silk Road trip is over, pack your bags, and you can return with good memories!
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