3-day or 5-day private packages to Dunhuang, an ancient desert city which has a long way since the Silk Road camel trains stopped here.
In spite of so long a journey, tourists still head for this 2,000-year-old sleepy desert town to see China’s most magnificent murals and Buddhist caves in Mogao Grottoes. The caves, also called the Caves of A Thousand Buddhas, are set into a cliff wall of Echoing-sand Mountain about 25km southeast of the oasis city. The honeycombed caves, enjoying a millennium long construction from the 4th to the 14th centuries and marking the height of Buddhist art, are the world’s richest treasure house of Buddhist sutras, murals and sculptures. . Other attractions including Echoing-sand Dune and the Crescent Lake.
