Dunhuang Fandian

No.16 Mingshan Road Dunhuang, Gansu, 736200, China

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TravelPod Member ReviewsDunhuang Fandian

“Adequate and very central”

roeby-en-ine 9 contributions
Boxtel, Netherlands Flag of Netherlands
Aug 18, 2011

Its central location is the Dunhuang Hotel's main attraction: the bus to the sand dunes leaves right across the street and Jhong's Cafe, which organizes camel treks into the desert, is but a few paces away. Rooms are clean and adequate, though there are some small inconveniences - such as the bathroom floor flooding with every shower and the lack of an elevator. All in all, fine place to stay in Dunhuang.

This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.

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Humps for joy

A travel blog entry by roeby-en-ine

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And so we entered the terrible wastelands beyond the last beacon tower of the Great Wall, which were actually a lot more pleasant than Jiayuguan city. In fact, we thoroughly enjoyed the desert town of Dunhuang. Scarcely had we checked into our hotel or we went frolicking in the sand dunes just outside town. We were not alone: scores of Chinese …

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... All buses stop at the same four stops to let their passengers off to take photos and walk among the sandstone piles. If you miss your bus, you just hop on the one behind. By the time our tour was finished, we had to wait for some of our fellow van passengers who had fallen further behind than us. Perhaps we were a bad influence on them. During our tour, the sun tried to burn through. It got fairly bright by the end of our visit ...

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... over with a mixture of clay, sand, and plant fiber, and painting on plaster. The site includes the largest body of Buddhist art in China.

Presumably what started out as meditation chambers for a growing number of local monks with offerings from passing Silk Road merchants morphed into legacy monuments for the local officials and wealthy merchant families of Dunhuang. Many of the grottoes were commissioned by a specific family who not ...

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... I was cheap and decided that it would be more fun to run down the sand dune. It was soooo much fun running down. Your feet kinda sink into the sand and you go surprisingly fast down (it's hard to stop)... Me and my friends got some strange looks from some Chinese people when running down XD Our camels then took us to this place called Crescent Moon Lake, where travelers across the desert will stop to get water. The ...

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... This was due to the fact he studied his PGCE in the UK.

The next day I took the bus out to the Mogao Caves, one of the best preserved collections of Silk Road era Buddhist art. Our tour guide was very good. The Spanish couple had been disappointed with theirs. On the tour there was just myself and a French couple, who were equally interested and thirsty for knowledge about the caves. I found it very interesting to see the early Indian style ...

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