Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring

Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring is located 5 kilometers south of Dunhuang, and has long been known as the “organ of the desert” and is one of Dunhuang’s business cards, thanks to its sandy mountains and springs. Mingsha Mountain is named for the sound it makes when the sand moves. The mountain is about 40 kilometers east-west and 20 kilometers north-south, with the main peak at an altitude of 1,715 meters, and its spring is located in the desert, with a length of nearly 100 kilometers north-south and about 25 m east-west, and the spring is deepest in the east, with an outer diameter of about 5 meters, bending like a crescent moon.

Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot

Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot covers an area of 50 square kilometers, with an average elevation of 1,820 meters, and its terrain is mainly self-sustaining "red layer" formed between 135 million and 65 million years ago through the erosion of tectonic movements, runoff, and wind power, and is a unique colorful hilly landscape in China.

Jiayuguan Pass

Jiayuguan District is located 6 kilometers southwest of Jiayuguan City, the narrowest mountain valley in central Jiayuguan; the city wall is 7 kilometers away, and it is the westernmost point of the Great Wall of China's Ming Dynasty.

Maiji Mountain

Maizhi Mountain is located 50 kilometers southeast of Tianshui City, Gansu Province, and is 142 meters high, so named because its shape resembles a heap of wheat. Built between 384 and 417, Maizhi Mountain is world-famous for its exquisite clay sculptures and is considered a showcase of oriental sculpture. Maizhi Mountain Stone Cave is one of the most famous stone caves in the northwestern area and is known as one of the "Four Great Stone Caves of China" along with Yungang Stone Cave, Yungang Stone Cave, and Mogaoku Stone Cave.