Qinghai + Gansu 7-Day Private Tour | Natural Wonders and Silk Road Cultural Journey (Accepts Foreign Guests)

# ① Pre-trip Notice Within 24 hours after you place your order, we will send detailed itinerary and vehicle information via email. Thank you for your patient cooperation.

② Highlights of the Itinerary

• One-stop experience of five major features: snow-covered Tibetan Buddhist chants, plateau salt lake secret realms, Silk Road frontier passes, Dunhuang grotto art, and Qilian Mountain wilderness scenery.
• Visit Kumbum Monastery to pay homage to ancient Tibetan temples, step into the blue waves of Qinghai Lake to embrace the plateau holy lake, and ride the small train through the Chaka Salt Lake (Mirror of the Sky).
• Head to Qarhan to admire the wonder of the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Salt Bridge, tour the Gobi desert and vast seas to observe the expansiveness of the salt lake, and personally experience Dunhuang mud-embryo painting to feel the craftsmanship of mural artisans.
• Visit the Mogao Grottoes to appreciate millennia-old mural colored sculptures, change into desert Hanfu styling to stroll through Mingsha Mountain, and enjoy the sunset accompanied by the reflection of sand and spring at Crescent Moon Spring.
• Climb the Jiayuguan City Tower to gaze at the Great Wall, view the Colorful Danxia to embrace the earth's colorful scroll, and gallop horses across the Qilian grasslands to encounter ten thousand acres of flower seas.

③ [Warm Tips]

• There is a relatively large temperature difference in Qinghai and Gansu, so prepare both thick and thin clothing. There are many mountain roads in mountainous areas, so pay attention to foot safety while playing, respect local folk customs, and have a pleasant trip!
• Domestic use of national standard flat plug power supplies, foreign guests should bring their own plug adapters.

④ Itinerary Arrangement:

• D1: Various locations to Xining to Kumbum Monastery (Today's driving distance is about 60KM / 1H)
• D2: Xining to Qinghai Lake Erlangjian Scenic Area to Chaka Salt Lake (Small train package) (Today's driving distance is about 300KM / 4.5H)
• D3: Chaka to Haishi Scenic Area (Seasonally limited) to Golmud Qarhan Salt Lake (Today's driving distance is about 600KM / 7H)
• D4: Golmud to Dangjin Pass to Dunhuang Academy Mud-Embryo Painting Experience to Shazhou Night Market (Today's driving distance is about 600KM / 7H)
• D5: Dunhuang to Mogao Grottoes to Afternoon Mingsha Mountain Styling Experience (Photography not included) to Mingsha Mountain Crescent Moon Spring (Today's driving distance is about 30KM / 1H)
• D6: Dunhuang to Jiayuguan Pass to Colorful Danxia to Zhangye (Today's driving distance is about 600KM / 7H)
• D7: Zhangye to Menyuan Rapeseed Flowers (Seasonally limited) to Qilian Grassland Horse Riding to Xining Itinerary End (Flights are recommended to be after 16:00 in the afternoon) (Today's driving distance is about 350KM / 4H)