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The 10 Best Things to do in Zhangye, Gansu
Zhangye, formerly romanized as Changyeh or known as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Inner Mongolia on the north and Qinghai on the south. Its central district is Ganzhou, formerly a city of the Western Xia and one of the most important outposts of western China.
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1. Xilai Temple of Zhangye
2. Ganzhou Ancient Tower
3. Pingshan Grand Canyon
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 27 reviews
Reviewed By ladakhed
This was a great place to go, and was a very different kind of landscape to the Danxia Rainbow mountains, which do not seem to be mentioned on tripadvisor, and May be conflated with these ones. Many people go on a day tour to see both landscape areas, but only do this if you are in a rush. Whereas in the rainbow mountains you are in the thick of the beauty, you start here floating above a landscape far below you, and it is mesmerising. There are a range of colours and shapes, mesas, escarpments, towers of stone and jagged layers of rock plummeting down into narrow canyons. Having enjoyed the scenery from above, you descend into one of the canyons through steep sections of steps and ladders, before squeezing through some tight spaces, as well as climbing two vertical 20m ladders to make it up one of the chutes. It sounds scary and strenuous, but antobe with moderate Fitness will find it fine. It took a comfortable 3 hours or so to enjoy the view s and do the walk. There is a 0945 bus from the west bus station that will do you off at the site at 1100 and pick you up again at 1630. We twiddled our thumbs a bit for an hour, but you could easily extend the walk in the park, or enjoy all the new facilities they are building outside the park. A taxi would cost between 200 and 300 for a return trip, depending on your bargaining skills. It was 100rmb per adult to enter, and 30rmb for a return 25 minute bus ride from the gate to the main park itself. It was a beautiful area and a fun walk. Definitely worth going.
4. Dafo Temple of Zhangye
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 128 reviews
Reviewed By Donkeytonk
Here’s Marco Polo’s review of this very temple, from around 800 years ago: “The people are Idolaters, Saracens, and Christians, and the latter have three very fine churches in the city, whilst the Idolaters have many minsters and abbeys after their fashion. In these they have an enormous number of idols, both small and great, certain of the latter being a good ten paces in stature; some of them being of wood, others of clay, and others yet of stone. They are all highly polished, and then covered with gold. The great idols of which I speak lie at length. And round about them there are other figures of considerable size, as if adoring and paying homage before them.”
5. Shanxi Guild Hall
6. National Wetland Park
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 17 reviews
Reviewed By KodoDrummer - Yekaterinburg, Russia
Truly organic wetland park. Lots of reeds, some scattered trees, some people were fishing, others sightseeing via a bus like vehicle, and a few on bicycles.
7. Heishuiguo Site and Mausoleums of Han Dynasty
8. Muta Temple
9. Zhangye Zhenyuan Tower
10. JinFang BuXingJie
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