Dunhunag Grand Sun Hotel Dunhuang

... Diamond Sutra, the first known printed book in the world - now in the British Museum.<br><br>Now, due to tourism and the general interest in the area, Dunhuang is again becoming an important place - with a new airport, a new casino [!] and a huge new station - all due to be completed in the next few years. So in a few years time....well, thank goodness we have missed out on those joys!<br><br>The ...

... br><br>From Jiayuguan we then went to Dunhuang which is really famous for its Buddhist Grottoes, and therefore it is quite the tourist attraction, and therefore, they have lots of western style restaurants!!! I had french toast for almost every meal... Anyway. We went to the Mogao Grottoes which has the second and third largest Buddhist sculptures in China; which were something like 120 feet tall? Which now that I'm seeing that it seems impossible but that's what the guide ...

... as the Chinese are now, they were even more so in the past. The sculptors had coated the soft sandstone Buddha's and caves with plaster and straw. This has effectively managed to keep the caves in good shape for the past 1500 years since their founding in 366AD. Eighteen monasteries, 1400 monks and nuns and countless others once made this home, although the collapse of the Silk Route in the Yuan dynasty caused the ...

... br>Des notre arrivée à Dunhuang on s'est booké un trek en chameau pour s'aventurer dans le désert et y passer la nuit, un peu comme j'avais fait au Maroc, mais puisque Josée n'avait jamais fait ça c'était un incontournable. Le ciel étoilé la nuit dans le désert est d'une clareté inégalée, et on a du prendre ridiculement 30 photos du coucher de soleil depuis le haut d'une dune. Le matin en se levant on pouvait voir les ...

... and 12th Century AD. Inside these caves are thousands upon thousands of Buddhist sculptures and texts. It is one of the greatest Buddhist art showcase in the world. <br><br>At the gate the entrance price have been reduced from the high season price of160 yuan ($23) to to the low season price of 80 yuan. The lady behind the ticket booth says it&#8217;s because of the financial crisis. Both Liu Chang and I feel rather ironic to ...

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... taronges i negres posats sobre el dit, marrons pal lids, estesos sota el cel blau net. La sorra caient mandrosa, sobre ella mateixa per la vessant, dibuixa llengues i llagrimes, com una aigua densa i lenta, i fa ell soroll d una brisa suau passant per un arbre de fulles tendres. Hi ha arestes esmolades fins a l ultim gra minuscul, i arestes arrodonides, com si una ma molt gran, oberta, hi hagues passat la corba que queda entre el polze i l ...

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... hair?!?!" It was very humorous - one of those 'China moments'... We got into Dunhuang very late at night and the train station is about 40 minutes outside of town, so we got a taxi and headed for town. On the way he was trying to get us to use him to take us places around Dunhuang, but we were so tired we didn't know what was going on...He was nice, so we decided to use him and we set up a time to meet in the morning. Once we made ...

... t know what I was stepping on but all the other women were using the toilet so I wasn't too concerned, my shoes were back on by now. I had meant to have my torch with me but it was in my main bag, never mind. I read a little until it got dark and then listen to music. The girl on the bed behind me had a listen too, not sure if she liked my choice. She took a photo of me on my camera too. The landscape was very flat and very dry. As I had arrived into Geermu in the dark ...