OverviewDunhuang is located at the western end of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province in northwest of China. It is 2000 kilometers west of Beijing, right on the silk road that caravans would take to get from China to the Middle East.Dunhuang Tourist MapsDunhuang is one of the most famous tourist cities ...

OverviewDunhuang is located in the west of Gansu Province, next to Xinjiang. Most of the tourists to Dunhuang will take the flight, while trains and buses will take a lot of time. Nevertheless, as an important gateway of the Ancient Silk Road, Dunhuang is visited by a large number of domestic and fo...

OverviewDunhuang is located in the intersection of Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang. Because it is deep inland, blocked by high mountains and far away from the humid ocean air flow, so Dunhuang belongs to the extremely arid continental climate, with three main characteristics. First, sufficient sunshine,...

Before the Third Century BCIt was inhabited by the people of Yuezhi (whose descendents became the Indo-Scythian rulers of northwestern Indiabetween the 1st and the 5th century),Wusun and Xiongnu (a confederation of nomadic tribes from Central Asia).In the 2nd Century BCA brave young man,Zhang Qian, ...

OverviewDunhuang, situated in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an oasis at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Dunhuang was one of the first trading cities encountere...