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victorwkf Says: Location: located in the Gobi desert, at the middle of Hexi Corridor, 600 kms from Lanzhou, 5 - 6 hours away by bus from DunhaungNeighboring Areas: Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Qinghai provinces, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous RegionsPopulation:...
Jiayuguan town centre and shopping
victorwkf Says: Jiayuguan is not just about the famous great wall pass. If you are in the town, you should visit the town centre which is very clean and beautiful. There is now a huge shopping complex at the town centre. Also, there is a huge monument of the horse at the town centre as...
mke1963 Says: The tomb-brick murals of the Wei and Jin periods pre-date the Mogaokou murals and frescos at Dunhuang. The style of painting can be linked directly to the styles seen in Cave 249 at the Mogaokou. It is believed that the artists lived locally and their art depicted everyday...
mke1963 Says: Located in Xincheng, 18 km northeast Jiayuguan, the Wei Jin Dynasties Tomb Complex is an extremely significant cultural site that is little visited by most visitors to Jiayuguan. The underground tombs date back to the Tang Dynasty (618~907), the Jin Dynasty and the Wei...
ellyse Says: If you're pressed for time, skip climbing the Overhanging Great Wall and just take photos from the outside. We got marvellous photos anyway. :P I've been on the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Simatai, pretty steep bits there and the Overhanging Great Wall didn't look THAT...
Zipline fun at 1st Beacon Tower
ellyse Says: Admission to 1st Beacon Tower is 11 RMB, zipline ride across the gorge (?) is 35 RMB. The snow scenery at Jiayuguan fortress and 1st Beacon Tower is gorgeous... sadly, this's season-specific! Having all of these 2 places to yourself is also a big plus :D
(never noticed): Farmer's chicken with Chinese pasta; Lamb soup
ellyse Says: Farmer's chicken with Chinese pasta and lamb soup. Tell them your order before you go into the attraction area, spend at least about 1 hour inside (it's a quite a big place) and your chicken and lamb will be ready for you when you come out. The chicken with Chinese pasta...
Various bars: Around Xinhua Zhong Lu
mke1963 Says: On all four roads leading on to the roundabout by the Jiayuguan Hotel, there are small bars of varying quality and taste. Most (there are about eight) are kosher bars, and fashions change regularly so check which has the best atmosphere for you.
Jiayuguan Airport - UPDATE AUGUST 2006
mke1963 Says: Work on the runway extension at Jiayuguan has been completed and the airport is now open again. The services are not yet showing up on online databases but there are known to be direct non-stop services to Lanzhou, Urumqi and Dunhuang. As the whole point of the runway...
Getting from Jiayuguan to Anxi and on to Dunhuang
mke1963 Says: If you are planning to travel to Anxi read the following information carefully!The 312 road is being converted to a National Highway over its whole length, west of Jiayuguan. The road west is in an absolutely terrible state and it will stay this year for the next 12...
Getting away from Jiayuguan by train
mke1963 Says: Although many trains pass through Jiayuguan from Urumqi on the way to other parts of China, note that it is getting almost impossible to acquire tickets in soft or hard sleeper class. The standard method of upgrading when onboard is a hit and miss affair these days.The T658...
Driver recommendation: Huang Zebing
ellyse Says: Strongly recommend Mr Huang Zebing: doesn't smoke, drives well (safe driver!) and overall very accommodating. He's a local of Jiayuguan, although his ancestry hails from Shandong province. Rate was 1500 RMB starting from pick-up at Liuyuan train station, 2 days in Dunhuang,...
Various (everywhere!): Luminescent Jade Cups
mke1963 Says: Another nice3 local gift is the sets of small wine glasses and goblets fashioned from jade. These cups are translucent and quite attractive. Not to my taste, but a lot of people like them a lot. They are made at various places in Gansu, and there is one small workshop almost...
Various shops: Local handicrafts in Jiayuguan
mke1963 Says: As many visitors want to purchase souvenirs that are localy made, by local people, I am trying to identify items that would be suitable. Most of China's souvenir industry iis dominated by big factories in the east of China, producing huge numbers of the same thing.Local...
Near-non-existent guides at Wei Jin Tombs
ellyse Says: 31 RMB admission includes the small museum and a look at tomb no. 6. The guide might as well be non-existent. She offered no explanation/commentary at all throughout unless we asked specific questions; and even then, the answers she served up were as common as any that I...
mke1963 Says: To the north-west of Jiayuguan, along the Shiguan Gorge that passes through the Overhanging Great Wall are a number of old carvings in the layers of thick black basalt rock.In fact, you do not need to make the lengthy trek to the main gorge to see some of the carvings,...
The Community Restored Beacon Tower
mke1963 Says: The last beacon tower before the Overhanging Great Wall is an interesting example of comunity restoration - showing both good and bad in the management of cultura heritage management in China in recent years. In 2000, a local businessman was given permission to rebuild the...
Background to the Wei Jin period - Part II
mke1963 Says: Among these battles and flows of refugees, in 399 Fa Xian set off on his long journey to India, returning to China in 414 with precious Buddhist scripts that he then translated. Seventy-five years later, the Northern Wei established total control over northern China, and in...
Background to the Wei Jin period - Part I
mke1963 Says: Immediately after the Han Dynasty, came the Wei Kingdom (220-280AD), one of the Three Kingdoms. The others were the Shu Han in the west and south-west and the Wu in the south. The Wei, the most pwerful, was started by Cao Pi who became the first Wei ruler, Wendi, and ruled...
The Legend of the Two Swallows (Fortress)
mke1963 Says: One of the most endearing legends of the Jiayuguan Fortress is that of the two swallows. It is said that during Zhengde's reign (1506-1521), two swallows lived in the archway of the eastern gateway. They were well-known to the guards who watched them flit in and out and...
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On all four roads leading on to the roundabout by the Jiayuguan Hotel, there are small bars of varying quality and taste. Most (there are about eight) are...
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For thousands of years, Jiayuguan was a wild, inhospitable place where the Wenshushan and the Heishan pushed in like a closing jaw on the western end of the Hexi corridor. Just 17 kilometres wide,...
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Jiayuguan - The most westerly great wall pass
Jiayuguan is a famous place in the silk road and China as it is the most westerly pass of the famous China great wall which stretches across thousands of miles in northern China. Hope you would find...
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Great Wall , Silk Road , both selected this city
Great wall is so long , and the end is Jiayuguan city . of course , there must be a huge building as the end .this building is "Jia Yu pass" , a splendid building near from urban area .
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For those interested in desert China, this is definitely a good destination. This page is about a tourist attraction in Gansu Province called Jiayuguan Pass, to see the ‘non-bricks’ Great Wall that......
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