Date: 2006-09-12 to 13
We left Xingjiang on 2006-09-11 evening, we arrived at a train station on 2006-09-12 morning. Local tour guide picked us up to Dunhuang. The distance is about 4 hours bus ride.
The city, Dunhuang 敦煌, is located near the historic junction of the northern and southern silk road. It lies on the north west of Gansu province.
For centuries Buddhist monks at Dunhuang collected scriptures from the west, and many pilgrims passed through the area, painting murals inside the Mogao Caves or "Caves of a Thousand Buddhas."
Dunhuang was made a prefecture in 117 BC by Emperor Han Wudi, and was a major point of interchange between China and the outside world during the Han and Tang dynasties.
Major attractions: Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes, Crescent Lake and Echoing-Sand Mountain(Mingsha Shan)
2012-12-11 Photos from www.multiply.com are updated. Multiply is going to close its business, so I have to move everything to Google. In the beginning, the software they provided to download photos did only 1 photo per album. For several months later, they allowed us to download photos by the date when I did upload. The photos are in zipped files, so I have to unzip them and put them in different folders. Now, I am doing to put the photos together by their subject.
鸣沙山
鸣沙山
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