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After breakfast, drive about 10km from the Dunhuang city to visit the newly opened Mogao Grottoes Digital Exhibition Center before
go to Mogao Grottoes. You will watch two well-produced educational
documentary movies that introduce the history, arts, and other facts
about Mogao Grottoes. After the movies, take the interzonal bus to Mogao Grottoes. Mogao Grottoes is famed as the “Louvre of East”, which
is outstanding for its exquisite mural paintings and statues. There are
now 492 grottoes in which about 45000 square meters mural paintings and
2100 colorfully painted statues from which you can trace the development
of Chinese art over 1600 years from one dynasty to the next because
each dynasty built own caves to record its own features.
Tips:
1. During peak seasons (May to October), there are usually a lot of visitors to Mogao Caves, so it is recommended to make a reservation in advance for at least 7 days. 2. If you want to see the Special Caves (excluded in the regular visit, and only open for limmited individual visitors or small groups with reservations), you can contact our travel consultants or your tour guide to arrange for you, but you have to pay the seperate admission fee for each cave. 3. It is not allowed to take photos inside grottoes.
The following attraction is the Echoing Sand Mountains. It is said, in the sunny days, the sand mountains echo like Orchestra music even if there is no wind. If you slide from the sand mountains, you can hear the echoing sound clearly. Your last thing to do for today is the Crescent Lake. Surrounded by the Echoing Sand Mountains, Crescent Lake is a beautiful
oasis with some well decorated traditional Chinese architecture, some
trees and flowers and a lake that has never dried up and shapes like a
crescent moon.
Tips:
In the summer time, travelers can stay up to late night around 24:00 to enjoy the cool time and beautiful sky of stars;