Zhangye Trip Overview
This private tour will show you to visit the highlights of Zhangye. You will visit the Binggou Danxia, Zhangye Danxia Geo Park, Pingshanhu Grand Canyon, and the Horse Hoof Temple Grottoes (Matisi Grottoes). Your tour departure point is from your Zhangye hotel.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Zhangye, China
Trip Category: Multi-day & Extended Tours >> Multi-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Zhangye, Gansu, China
This private tour will show you to visit the highlights of Zhangye. You will visit the Binggou Danxia, Zhangye Danxia Geo Park, Pingshanhu Grand Canyon, and the Horse Hoof Temple Grottoes (Matisi Grottoes). Your tour departure point is from your Zhangye hotel.
Itinerary
Day 1: Danxia Parks in Zhangye
Pass By: Binggou Danxia Scenic Area, Sunan County China
Your professional tour guide will meet you at the lobby of your Zhangye hotel, by an air-conditioned minivan to Binggou Danxia Landform, it will take about 1 hour to the park. you will hike for about 2 hours in the park, the peak looks like a camel, torch, palace, frog,etc.. enjoy the beautiful view on the mountain.
Pass By: Zhangye Danxia Geopark, 30km South of the County, Linze County 734200 China
Visit the Zhangye Danxia Landform,The area of Zhang in Danxia National Geopark is 510 square kilometres in total, it located in the north of Qilian mountains, SuNa County territory. It includes the colour hills in Linze country ,ice hills, Danxia and GanZhou District and PingShan lake. The scenic Danxia, is a distance of 40 km from east Zhang Ye city, north from Linze county town by 20 kilometers, this is the most typical arid area of northern China.
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: The Horse Hoof Temple Grottoes & Pingshanhu Grand Canyon
Pass By: Zhangye, Zhangye, Gansu
Transfer to the Horse-Hoof Temple Grottoes, you will see the countryside view and grassland on the way. The Horse-Hoof Temple Grottoes located in the Qilian Snow Mountain, initially the first cave was opened by Guoyu who came from Dunhuang in the third century. It is a very important Buddhism Grottoes in Gansu. Enjoy lunch a local ethnic Yugur people’s tent, this minority group just can be find in Gansu province. they believe Tibten Buddhism also well. In the afternoon, visit the Zhangye Danxia Landform,t is the best evolved examples in China of window lattice and palace forms. it can be seen only in the arid areas of Gansu province. The Danxia formations are surrounded by colorful hills, which seem to rise and fall like waves; with rock strata of different colors mixed in graceful disarray
Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.