October 19 - October 31 ·06:30 - 18:00 (Ticket sales stop: 18:00)
Notes The park opening and closing times are the same as the ticket sales times. In-depth tour visitors must enter the park 1 hour in advance (i.e., by 17:00).










The Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park is located in the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, within the borders of Linze and Sunan counties. It is 40 kilometers east of Zhangye urban area and 20 kilometers north of Linze county seat. The scenic area covers a total area of 50 square kilometers, with a tourist activity area of 4 square kilometers, and is now a Global Geopark and a National 5A-level Tourist Attraction. Within the scenic area, there are 7 viewing spots including the Colorful Sea of Clouds, Colorful Fairy Fate, Colorful Brocade, Colorful Rainbow Glow, Crouching Tiger Gorge, Colorful Ao River, and Wanyuan Earth Forest Valley. There are also more than 30 landscapes such as the Divine Dragon Playing with Fire, Spirit Monkey Watching the Sea, Divine Turtle Asking Heaven, Golden Toad Asking the Way, Large Scallop, Colorful Screen, Sleeping Beauty, and Crouching Tiger. It is a highly composite area of colorful hills and Danxia landforms. The colorful hills are renowned for their brilliant colors, interlaced stratification, magnificent momentum, and spectacular scenes. The Wanyuan Earth Forest Valley Danxia landform landscape area features peaks like a forest, dense yet well-spaced, orderly and well-arranged, with uniquely bizarre shapes and workmanship surpassing nature, combining majesty, perilousness, peculiarity, beauty, and seclusion all in one. After being upgraded to a National 5A-level Tourist Attraction and Global Geopark, the Zhangye Danxia Scenic Area will aim to build an international tourism destination. By deeply exploring and optimizing the combination of regional cultural resources, and utilizing the scenic area’s unique tourism resources and cultural heritage, it will forge the Danxia scenic area into an international tourism destination for western vacation and scientific expedition. With colorful hills and Danxia landforms as the core attractions, embodying the aesthetic and scientific values of geological resources, and aiming at the protection and development of geological landscape resources, it will become a comprehensive scenic area dominated by geological sightseeing and recreation, supplemented by cultural experiences, folk customs, and leisure vacations.
No drone flying
October 19 - October 31 ·06:30 - 18:00 (Ticket sales stop: 18:00)
Notes The park opening and closing times are the same as the ticket sales times. In-depth tour visitors must enter the park 1 hour in advance (i.e., by 17:00).
Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park

The Zhangye Danxia National Geological Park is located in the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, within the borders of Linze and Sunan counties. It is 40 kilometers east of Zhangye urban area and 20 kilometers north of Linze county seat. The scenic area covers a total area of 50 square kilometers, with a tourist activity area of 4 square kilometers, and is now a Global Geopark and a National 5A-level Tourist Attraction. Within the scenic area, there are 7 viewing spots including the Colorful Sea of Clouds, Colorful Fairy Fate, Colorful Brocade, Colorful Rainbow Glow, Crouching Tiger Gorge, Colorful Ao River, and Wanyuan Earth Forest Valley. There are also more than 30 landscapes such as the Divine Dragon Playing with Fire, Spirit Monkey Watching the Sea, Divine Turtle Asking Heaven, Golden Toad Asking the Way, Large Scallop, Colorful Screen, Sleeping Beauty, and Crouching Tiger. It is a highly composite area of colorful hills and Danxia landforms. The colorful hills are renowned for their brilliant colors, interlaced stratification, magnificent momentum, and spectacular scenes. The Wanyuan Earth Forest Valley Danxia landform landscape area features peaks like a forest, dense yet well-spaced, orderly and well-arranged, with uniquely bizarre shapes and workmanship surpassing nature, combining majesty, perilousness, peculiarity, beauty, and seclusion all in one. After being upgraded to a National 5A-level Tourist Attraction and Global Geopark, the Zhangye Danxia Scenic Area will aim to build an international tourism destination. By deeply exploring and optimizing the combination of regional cultural resources, and utilizing the scenic area’s unique tourism resources and cultural heritage, it will forge the Danxia scenic area into an international tourism destination for western vacation and scientific expedition. With colorful hills and Danxia landforms as the core attractions, embodying the aesthetic and scientific values of geological resources, and aiming at the protection and development of geological landscape resources, it will become a comprehensive scenic area dominated by geological sightseeing and recreation, supplemented by cultural experiences, folk customs, and leisure vacations.
No drone flying