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Jiayuguan integrates Silk Road and Great Wall cultures and is well-known for its impregnable geographic conditions. The city has well-developed industries and a strong tourism business. It is home to Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Co, the largest company of its kind in Northwest China.

Jiayuguan is a famous historical and cultural city in China, known as "the most powerful pass in the world", with thousands of years of cultural accumulation, it has formed China's unique silk road culture, Great Wall culture and frontier culture. 

Jiayuguan Silk Road Tours

Duration:4 Days, 3 Nights

Attractions(Cities):Jiayuguan, Dunhuang

Tour Style:Step back into ancient Chinese silk road with this guided 4 days Dunhuang Jiayuguan silk route tour. During the tour, visit the best part of Jiayuguan Great Wall along the silk road, experience the camel ride across Echoing Sand Mountain and Crescent Lake, admire the UNESCO sites Mogao Grottoes and enjoy the Yadan unique geopark landscape. Your professional tour guide will accompany you throughout the tour.

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From $350 p/p

Duration:3 Days, 2 Nights

Attractions(Cities):Jiayuguan Pass, Overhanging Great Wall, Wei Jin Tombs, The First Beacon Tower of the Great Wall

Tour Style:Jiayuguan is a small city, it has no influence on its important position in the ancient Silk Road. You can't miss the Overhanging wall, Jiayuguan Pass, Wei and Jin tombs and other famous scenic spots. And there are direct flights between Xi'an and Jiayuguan, so why not spend three days join this tour to make an in-depth exploration of Jiayuguan? Air flight tickets is included.

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From $163 p/p

Duration:2 Days, 1 Night

Attractions(Cities):Jiayuguan Pass, Jiayuguan Departure, Overhanging Great Wall, Wei Jin Tombs

Tour Style:Jiayuguan-a small city in the middle of Hexi Corridor and a popular stopover destination between Zhangye and Dunhuang. They both necessary places for commerce and trade of the ancient Silk Road. For a better understanding of the background story of the Silk Road, you can take the train directly from Zhangye to Jiayuguan. This 2 Days Jiayuguan Silk Road Culture Tour included most of the major attractions in Jiayuguan, you can take a longer adventure to explore deeper and further into the history, culture and landscape of Silk Road.

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From $135 p/p

Duration:6-8 hours

Attractions(Cities):Jiayuguan Pass, Overhanging Great Wall, Wei and Jin Tomb

Tour Style:Known as the 'Mouth of China', Jiayuguan is an important gateway of the ancient Chinese silk road, as important as Dunhuang. Book this 1 day Jiayuguan tour to visit the "The Last Greatwall in the West" - Overhanging Great Wall(Jiayuguan Pass) and marvel at lifelike murals of ancient daily scenes of Wei Dynasty and Jin Dynasty. Private hotel pickup and drop-off, expert guide and city transfer service are included.

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From $82 p/p

Duration:3 Days, 2 Nights

Attractions(Cities):Jiayuguan

Tour Style:Get the most out of your China Silk Road holiday vacation with this personalized private Jiayuguan Dunhuang tour. This 3 Days silk road tour is an ideal package tour for you to save hours planning tour itinerary and booking train tickets. Travel Zhangye by a comfortable air-conditioned vehicle, you'll not only see more in a short space of time, also take an insight into the brilliant culture and history of ancient China.

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From $240 p/p

Most Asked Questions about Jiayuguan Silk Road Tours

1. What is the best time for touring Jiayuguan?

The best time to go to Jiayuguan is from March to November every year. It's the peak seasons for the tourists. It is recommended to wear winter coats, leather jackets, down coats, woolen hats, scarfs, gloves, sweaters, snow boots for the chilly spring.

2. What to pack if I travel in Jiayuguan?

It is still cold in the early spring. Hiking along the Jiayuguan great wall may need to take some more courage bearing the chilly wind. Though The scenery won't get much influenced by the weather and you can also choose to visit the Great Wall Museum and Wei-Jin Tomb to appreciate the beautiful murals.

3. What's the weather in Jiayuguan

Jiayuguan City has a temperate continental desert climate with an average annual temperature of 6.7 ? - 7.7 ? and 8000 hours of sunshine. The annual average natural precipitation is 85.3 mm, and the evaporation is 2149 mm. The frost free period of the whole year is about 130 days. The climate in Jiayuguan is temperate continental desert, with annual precipitation of only over 80 mm, annual average temperature of only about 6 ?, annual frost free period of more than 130 days, and winter average annual temperature below zero ? .

4. What are the local cuisine in Jiayuguan?

Jiayuguan is a city of immigrants, which gathers the main specialties of Northwest China, mainly including northwest pasta and beef and mutton. People from south to North also let the local cuisines meet here, where Xi'an, Tianjin, Sichuan, Tibetan areas and other delicacies can be seen everywhere, enriching the food culture of Jiayuguan. There are many local delicacies in Jiayuguan, such as Jiayuguan Lamb Skewers,Desert onion with meat,Apricot Peel Water,ect.

5. How can I get the best Jiayuguan travel guidebook?

Xianprivatetour.com introduces detailedly Jiayuguan travel guides from 2014-2020, where large number of Jiayuguan attractions in 1 are collected, and tourists can find travel guidebook regarding popular scenic spots, popular cities, travel lines, food and most popular destinations.

6. What we can buy in Jiayuguan?

The main local products of Jiayuguan City are Facai (a kind of algae) and camel hair. In addition, visitors can also buy handicrafts and souvenirs, such as Yeguan Cup (Night Glittering Cup), carving products, camel hair painting, jade carving, Jiayu inkstone, and fresco rubbings.

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Duration:6-8 hours

Attractions(Cities):Terracotta Warriors, Bell Tower, Muslim Quarter

Tour Style:This one-day private tour covers the essential sights of Xi'an with a local guide and a private car. The morning is at the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Lintong, where the excavated pits hold thousands of life-sized soldiers, horses, and chariots made for the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang over 2,000 years ago. In the afternoon you see the Ming-dynasty Bell Tower at the center of the old city, then walk the Muslim Quarter, a lane district tied to the Silk Road and known for hand-pulled noodles, roujiamo, and persimmon cakes. Entrance tickets, guide, and private transport are included. Pickup and drop-off are at your Xi'an hotel, at a Xi'an train station, or at the airport.

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From $87 p/p

Duration:6-8 hours

Attractions(Cities):Xi'an Ancient City Wall, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi'an Great Mosque, Muslim Quarter

Tour Style:This Xi'an city tour spends a day inside the old walled city with a local guide and a private car. It starts at the Xi'an Ancient City Wall, a Ming-dynasty brick fortification that runs about 13.7 km around the old town, where you can walk or rent a bike on the top. Next is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, a seven-story Tang tower raised in 652 AD to hold the Buddhist scriptures the monk Xuan Zang carried back from India. Then the Great Mosque of Xi'an, the largest mosque in China, laid out across a chain of courtyards, and finally the Muslim Quarter, a Hui lane district in the city, for street food and browsing. Entrance tickets, guide, and private transport are included. Pickup and drop-off are at your Xi'an hotel, a Xi'an train station, or the airport.

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From $78 p/p

Duration:5-6 Hours

Attractions(Cities):Terracotta Warriors

Tour Style:This half-day private tour goes to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Lintong, about an hour east of Xi'an, with a local guide and a private car. You move through the three exhibition pits with your guide, who covers how the army was made for the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang more than 2,000 years ago and what the excavation still shows. The museum holds more than 8,000 life-sized soldiers, horses, and chariots; you see the main pit in full, then the officers and war chariot in the small command pit and the mixed formations in the cavalry pit. Entrance fees, guide, and city transport are included, and the tour can start in the morning or the afternoon. Pickup and drop-off are at your Xi'an hotel or a Xi'an train station.

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From $65 p/p

Duration:8 hours

Attractions(Cities):Mt. Huashan

Tour Style:This day trip runs from Xi'an to Mt. Huashan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains of China, with a local guide and a private car. The drive takes about two hours each way. At the mountain you take the North Peak shuttle bus and cable car up to Cloud Terrace Peak at 1,614 meters, then walk the marked ridges and rock formations on the north side. Your guide covers the Taoist sites on the mountain and the legends behind the named rocks, including why the range is called Wealth Mountain. The price includes pickup and drop-off at your Xi'an hotel, a train station, or the airport, private car service with a driver, guiding, and entrance fees.

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From $188 p/p

Duration:8-9 hours

Attractions(Cities):Longmen Grottoes, Shaolin Temple

Tour Style:This day tour is based in Luoyang and covers two of its best-known sights, the Longmen Grottoes and the Shaolin Temple, with a local English-speaking guide. Your guide meets you at Luoyang Longmen train station in the morning and takes you first to the Longmen Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site of Buddhist cave carvings cut into the cliffs along the Yi River canyon from the Northern Wei dynasty onward. In the afternoon you continue to the Shaolin Temple at the foot of the Songshan Mountains, the monastery long tied to Chan Buddhism and to Shaolin kung fu, where you watch a kung fu demonstration. The day runs about 8 to 9 hours. Entrance fees and transport between the sites are included; lunch is at your own expense. It ends back at Luoyang Longmen train station or at your Luoyang hotel.

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From $175 p/p

Duration:10-12 hours

Attractions(Cities):Terracotta Warriors, Huaqing Palace, Song of Everlasting Sorrow Performance

Tour Style:This Xi'an day tour pairs the Terracotta Warriors with Huaqing Palace and the evening show Song of Everlasting Sorrow, with a local guide and a private car. It is a long day, roughly ten to twelve hours. In the morning you see the three excavation pits at the Terracotta Warriors museum, where life-sized soldiers, chariots, and horses were made for the first emperor Qin Shi Huang around 210 BCE. After lunch you move to Huaqing Palace at the foot of Lishan Mountain, an old imperial retreat built around natural hot springs. In the evening you watch Song of Everlasting Sorrow, an open-air show staged on the palace grounds about the Tang emperor Xuanzong and his consort Yang Guifei. Entrance tickets, guide, and transport are included; lunch and dinner are on your own. Pickup and drop-off are at your Xi'an hotel or a Xi'an train station.

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From $87 p/p

Duration:4-5 hours

Attractions(Cities):Bell Tower, Muslim Quarter, Local Restaurant

Tour Style:See old Xi'an after dark on this private night food tour. Around 5 p.m. your guide meets you at your hotel, a Xi'an train station, or the airport, and you ride in a private car with a dedicated driver. The evening opens at the lit-up Bell Tower at the crossing of the four old main streets, then moves on foot into the Muslim Quarter, the lane district the Silk Road made famous for its Hui cooking. Your guide takes you to the stalls and small kitchens locals use and helps you order the noodle, dumpling, and skewer dishes. Food is left out of the price on purpose: you pay for what you eat, and vegetarian or halal plates are easy to arrange. The route ends at a brewery inside the city walls for a short beer flight. Four to five hours, private, and paced to you.

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From $66 p/p

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