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Crescent Moon Spring/Singing Sand Mountains

Crescent Moon Spring is 6km south of Dunhuang in the Singing Sands Mountains and is quite literally an oasis in the desert. The Spring's name derives from the crescent moon shape the small pool of spring water has taken between two large sand dunes.

White Horse Pagoda

White Horse Pagoda (baima ta) originally built in 386 AD. A legend went like this: A prominent monk about 1350 years ago rode a horse to Fusan, which is now Japan, to help spread Buddhism. On his way, his cherished white horse died in Dunhuang...

Mogao Grottoes

The Mogao Grottoes (Mogao Ku) also known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, constitute one of the three major Buddhist grotto sites in China, and are situated 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang city on cliffs in the eastern Singing Sand Mountains.

Yang Pass

Yang Pass (Yangguan), also known as the Southern Pass, sits 75 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang, and was originally built by Emperor Wu in Hang Dynasty as one of the two most important passes protecting Dunhuang from invasion from the west (the other pass is Yumen Pass (Yumen Guan)...

The Ancient City of Dunhuang

The Ancient City of Dunhuang (Dunhuang Gucheng) is not what you may think. It is a huge movie set made to resemble the Song Dynasty city of Dunhuang. The set was created to film the movie "Dunhuang" in 1987 through a cooperation between Chinese and Japanese filmmakers.

Yumen Pass

Yumen Pass, 101 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang, used to be one of the two critical defensive passes protecting Dunhuang from invasion from the West about two thousand years ago. At that time, anyone in China wishing to take the Silk Road west would go through this pass.