Where is a good place to travel in Gansu in winter?

Lanzhou Anning Daqingshan Ski Resort 1

Lanzhou Anning Daqingshan Ski Resort is located in the loess hilly area of Daqingshan, Feijiaying, Kongjiaya, Anning District, Lanzhou City. It is the largest modern ski resort with complete facilities in the northwest of China-Northwest Plateau Ski Resort.

The ski resort used four snow blower to create 70 mu of snow with a thickness of 50 cm -80 cm. There are six snow trails, two snow elevators with a distance of 500 m and 1000 m on both sides of the snow trail, and an aerial ropeway is under construction.

Covering an area of 600 mu, the ski resort integrates skiing, fitness and entertainment, golf course, holiday and leisure, landscape architecture and holiday villa, and can accommodate more than 2,000 skiers.

2. Crescent Spring in Mingsha Mountain

Yueya Spring Scenic Area in Mingsha Mountain is located in the land of sand springs five kilometers south of Dunhuang. This is a wonderful place and is known as the "desert wonder".

Mingsha Mountain is five kilometers south of the city. It makes a sound on sunny days or when someone slides down the mountain, so it is named after the sound of sand movement. Crescent spring is named after its sweet and clear water quality. It is surrounded by Mingsha Mountain and looks like a crescent moon.

Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring are twin sisters in the desert Gobi. "The mountain is famous for its spirit, and the water is beautiful with spirit." There is a feeling that "the sound of sand is pleasing to people, and the crescent spring washes the heart". This unique landform with the birth of sand springs and the preservation of spring sand is indeed a "wonder of the world".

3. langmusi

Langmusi is located in langmusi Township, 90km south of Luqu, Gansu Province, on the Bailong River at the northern foot of Guoermangliang, a branch of Xiqiao Mountain. Langmusi is the abbreviation of Dacang Langmugedi Temple, a Gelug Sect temple in Sichuan, and it is also a regional name.

Langmusi is ethereal, with mountains and water and beautiful scenery. The mountain view in front of the temple looks like a monk's hat. The red gravel rock wall in the east of the temple is towering, and the stone peak in the west of the temple is tall and rugged.

Splendid temple buildings and patchwork tower-plate houses in the scenic area are hidden among lush pines and cypresses, and have the reputation of Oriental Switzerland.

4. Transparent Monk Glacier

Laohugou Glacier 12, English name Lao Hugo Glacier 12, also known as Transparent Monk Glacier, is located in the western section of Qilian Mountain in Subei Mongolian Autonomous County, Gansu Province.

Transparent Monk comes from Mongolian transliteration, which means tall and broad snow-capped mountains. According to the China Glacier Catalogue, Laohugou Glacier 12 is the largest valley glacier in Qilian Mountain, with a length of 10. 1 km, an area of 2 1.9 km2 and an ice storage capacity of 2.63 m3.

The glacier is located and monitored by the Qilian Mountain Glacier and Ecological Environment Comprehensive Observation and Research Station of China Academy of Sciences.

5. Mogao grottoes

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, was built in the pre-Qin period of sixteen countries. It is one of the four largest grottoes in China and a large-scale and well-preserved treasure house of Buddhist art in the world.

The Mogao Grottoes are about 1600 meters long from north to south, and are arranged in five layers, which are scattered and shaped like honeycomb dovecotes. There are 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and 24 15 clay sculptures.

The Mogao Grottoes are divided into south and north areas, of which the south area is a place for Buddhist rituals and activities, and the north area is a place for monks to practice, live and bury. There are heatable adobe sleeping platform, stove pit, flue, niche, lampstand, etc., but most of them have no painted sculptures and murals.