Lanzhou Travel Guide
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The city of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, marks the southeasternmost ancient Silk Road city along the equally ancient Hexi ("Western rivers") Corridor, a reference to the river basins of the Jin and the Wei Rivers - both tributary rivers to the upper reaches of the Yellow River - that form the valley floor that is the Hexi Corridor, which corridor roughly corresponds to the narrow, "bottleneck" stretch of present-day Gansu Province and which separates the Gobi Desert to the north and east from the Taklimakan Desert to the southwest. At the other end of the "bottleneck" stretch of present-day Gansu Province, i.e., in the northwestern part of the Hexi Corridor, lies the Gansu Province city of Dunhuang, famous especially for its Buddhist grotto art - including both paintings and sculptures,... [ View Details ]
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Binglingsi Thousand Buddha Caves 
Lying in Yongjing County with half a day's distance from Lanzhou via car, Bingling Thousand Buddha Caves is one of the best-preserved collections of Buddhist cave art in all of China. The ride from... [ View Details ]
Waterwheel Garden 
Giant ancient waterwheels, made in the Ming Dynasty, were used for irrigation of the farming fields along the Yellow River in ancient Lanzhou City. The Lanzhou waterwheel was quite a famous invention ... [ View Details ]
White Pagoda Hill Park
The fabulous White Pagoda was said to be built in honor of a famous Tibetan Lama, who died from sever illness on his way to meet Genghis Khan founder and emperor of the Yuan Dynasty at Lanzhou City. ... [ View Details ]
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chinatravel said at 2010-6-17 23:03:00
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great place to visit for a silk road adventure.
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