It is one of the six major monaseries.It's has 280 history.  It's about 250km southwest from Lanzhou. Now it's belong to Gansu province. In 1985, the Budda colleage established. Now there are 48 Permitted and Ngong owed (living buddha residences). There are 6 colleges with more than 500 monks.  

 Now it's one of the most well preserved monaseries in China. 

The Ya Dan National Geological Park---- 'Ya Dan" is Uygur language,which means precipitous statues. The Ya Dan Geological Park is away from city about 185 km. Local government is applying this as the Ya Dan  World Geological Park.Over thousands of years ago it is a big sea over there. Because of earth crust movement the ground rose up and the water in the sea flew away.Then some mud piles appeared as the bottom rose up.After many years the hard earth sculpture came into being,which look so beautiful.The sculptures  look like the Heavenly Altar,Sphinx of Egypt,Mushroom Cloud, peacock ,many fleets, Middle aged Castle, and so on. It is also a very good place to take photos and make movies. Many famous movies were shot here.

The echoing sanddune and crescent spring---It is a beautiful 5A natural scenery area. The sanddune and the spring stay together for thousands of years,which is in the south of Dunhuang city 6 km.Local would like to compare them as a deep lovely couple. The sandune is east streching edge of the Kumutag desert, which is the sixth largest desert in China. The crescent spring has never been dry and buried by the sands. Many legendary stories have been come down about them.In ancient time it was also the very important station along the silk road since all of Mogao caves were built in the east cliff of the sanddune.

The Mogao Grottos---It is in the southeast of Dunhuang city 25 km.In 1987 it was listed as the world cultural heritage by UNESCO.The first grotto was built 366 AD.Up to now 735 caves still exsit,which is 1700 meters along the cliff from north to south.The murals cover an area of 45,000 square meters, so it got a reputation name, the mural gallery.Among all of grottos along the ancient silk road , it has the longest history over 16oo years ,and it can be best preserved.Especially when the hidden library cave(No.17) was dicovered in 1900. Meanwhile about 50,000 pieces of relics were found ,more and more people get to know this area and it is becoming more famous .

The Yu Lin Grottos---It is located in the south of Gua Zhou city 85 km ,which is called Ten Thousand Buddhas’ Canyon by local people. It is listed by the state council of China in 1961 as the Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National level. There are totally 43 grottos in the east cliff and west cliff. The murals inside the grottos cover an area 5650 square meters. The number of  sculptures inside the grottos reaches to 272. The grottos were built during  at least 6 century to 20 century. Because of beautiful sculptures and murals, the Yulin Grottos was call the sister grottos of Mogao Grottos.

Lanzhou is a long and narrow valley of east and west, sandwiched between the two mountains, and the Yellow River passes through the city at the foot of the jiuzhou mountain in the north of the city. After the planning and construction of the urban construction department, along the south bank of the Yellow River, a river has been opened for dozens of kilometers. Because the road is wide and straight, the flower-beds on both sides of the road, dotted with stars, are known as the green corridor, which has become the longest city riverside road in the country.