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Updated Jun 2024
  • No.1
    󰺂8.7
    4.7/5
    17208 Review
    From205.23
    "Xiaoxiaomingsha Mountain is very interesting to ride a camel. Every camel has its own name. It is very human. I can understand the leader. When I go there, the sun is covered by clouds. It is a pity that I have not seen the Crescent Spring under the sunset. Everyone must pick a good day."
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    58.3km from Aksay
    Highlights: Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Lake is located south of the City of Dunhuang. The site features a mountain and a spring that are symbols of Dunhuang. You should visit the sightseeing area in the afternoon to avoid the heat of the midday desert. Once the sun goes down, you can climb the mountain. From its peak, you can enjoy the desert and Crescent Lake at the base of the mountain. The scenic area offers a variety of recreational activities, including camel riding, sandboarding, motorcycling in the desert, archery, and helicopter tours.
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  • No.2
    󰺂8.4
    4.5/5
    8787 Review
    From108.59
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 885 reviews
    "It is Dunhuang! It is indeed Mogao Grottoes. There are very few people in the off-season, and the experience is also very good. This time, the experience of buying tickets on Trip.com is also good, and there is a special person to connect. I will choose Trip.com next time."
    Dunhuang
    60.6km from Aksay
    Highlights: The Mogao Caves, also called Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, is located in the southeast of Dunhuang city. The Mogao Caves scenic area consists of the Mogao Caves Digital Center and the Mogao Caves. The Mogao Caves Digital Center shows short films about the caves. After thousands of years of carving, the caves have a large number of murals, cultural relics, and etc. It's a world-famous Buddhist art destination. The artistic characteristics of the caves are mainly reflected in the ingenious combination of architecture, statues and Dunhuang murals, and the artistic styles of many dynasties are vividly and harmoniously presented.
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  • No.3
    󰺂7.9
    4.4/5
    2226 Review
    "The Yadan landform is very strange, and the Yadan on the water is even more strange. Ctrip bought tickets online and went to the scenic spot. When I consulted, I was told that there were a total of 12 kilometers back and forth, and there were four scenic spots, so I had to buy a scenic shuttle bus ticket. 60 per person. After playing, I feel that the so-called four scenic spots are not much different. If you don't want to take the shuttle bus, just walk a short walk to the nearest attraction to take pictures. Finally, I have to complain. There are a lot of mosquitoes in the scenic spot, and they are all over the body. It's terrible!"
    Golmud
    >100km from Aksay
    Highlights: The Water Yadan Geopark, located in the hinderland of Qaidam Basin, Haixi Prefecture, is a park featuring the Yadan landform. It was formed by the rising lake—Ginel—that gradually inundated the northern margin of the Yadan group, just like a vast ocean in the endless desert out of nowhere. Wind-eroded sandstones in different shapes and clear water are set against each other. With the sun shining on them, the pillars and their reflections appear to have risen to the midair, like magic castles suspended in the sky.
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  • No.4
    󰺂7.7
    4.3/5
    2318 Review
    From161.8
    "The performance venue is next to the Mogao Grottoes. You have to pick up tickets in advance and queue up to enter the venue. There is no fixed seat throughout the whole process. Follow the scene. The first time you visit this kind of performance, there are many people. The experience is not good. The last scene has a seat, so walk around to see the performance. Closer to the exit, Easy to occupy the position behind."
    Dunhuang.Dunhuang Airport/Dunhuang Railway Station
    68.9km from Aksay
    Highlights: "See also Dunhuang" via a multi-level interpretation, including the Mogao Grottoes, murals, rock walls and various cultural elements, reappearing the Mogao Grottoes from the opening of the cave to the prosperous, and then to the Taoist priests to show the long-standing mystery Throughout the process, each interpretation space will remake the connection point between the present and history. "See also Dunhuang" guiding the audience to re-interpret the mysterious and graceful art of Dunhuang dance music by the resurrection and restoration of the exquisite and oriental classical sight of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
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  • No.5
    󰺂7.2
    4.4/5
    2125 Review
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 57 reviews
    "I can only say that I feel the history, and other sincere development is average. The location is also relatively remote, and I can't come without driving. They are all newly built scenes, or for the phrase "West out of Yangguan without reason", there is really no need to come"
    Dunhuang
    41.5km from Aksay
    Highlights: The Yangguan Ancient Site, also known as the Yang Guan Museum, is located on the west side of Dunhuang City. It was constructed during the Western Han Dynasty Wudi Period and is an important gateway of the South Silk Road. It was named after the its location of southern Yumen Pass. In the scenic area, there are a number of tower buildings that are imitations from the Han Dynasty. There are a number of exhibition halls set up to show the numerous artifacts from the ancient Silk Road. Here you can visit the cultural relics, view the architecture and stroll around the residential street.
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  • No.6
    󰺂7.2
    4.4/5
    1276 Review
    "Emerald Lake has many colors, and tourists without drones are usually concentrated in the sky blue lake to take pictures, and tourists here are also the most. In fact, the emerald-colored lake is the big love, this colored lake is not surprising in the flat ground, but the drone perspective is completely different and very amazing. The beauty angle is the drone to shoot, people lie on the white salt ground, but the salt water here is particularly corrosive, be sure to pay attention."
    Haixi Prefecture
    >100km from Aksay
    Highlights: Jade Lake is located on the northeast side of Ike Qaidam Lake and ten kilometers northwest of Dachaidan Township. It belongs to the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It was originally the mining area of the Salt Lake Mining Team of Dachaidan Chemical Plant. Because the lake water is clear and blue in the sun, the color is like jade, so it is named "Emerald Lake". When the wind and waves are calm, Emerald Lake is scattered around like a mirror. The blue sky and white clouds and the snow-capped peaks of Qaidam Mountain are reflected in the water. The scenery is better than Chaka Salt Lake. feel.
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  • No.7
    󰺂7.1
    4.6/5
    671 Review
    Free
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 86 reviews
    "Dunhuang Museum  is located at No. 1390 Mingshan North Road, Dunhuang City, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province. The building area is 7500 square meters. It is a national second-level museum. The museum was established in 1979 and was recognized as a national third-level museum in 2013, and was rated as a national second-level museum in December 2020. Dunhuang Museum contains 13,355 cultural relics (sets), of which 138 cultural relics (sets), 387 cultural relics (sets) of the second-level, and 1387 cultural relics of the third-level. The appearance of the Dunhuang Museum is a Chinese ancient fortress-style building composed of the Great Wall and the Shanghai, which is very distinctive. The museum has six exhibition halls divided into 13 units, featuring historical relics of Dunhuang and precious cultural relics in Mogao Grottoes. There are many authentic documents unearthed from the Mogao Grottoes through the caves. Visitors can view the exhibition along the same passage as the grotto corridor, and feel the vicissitudes of Dunhuang's millennium history. In addition, Dunhuang Museum also provides special exhibitions such as the replica version of Grotto No. 45  and the brick painting tomb  during the Wei and Jin Period, so that visitors can understand Dunhuang's history and culture more deeply. The museum also has Fan Yanyan Silk Art Center Hall , showing some good cultural and tourism things. Visiting Dunhuang Museum is free, but reservations are required. Open from 9am to 6.30pm every Tuesday to Sunday (winter time may be adjusted), closed on Mondays. It takes about 2 hours to visit. Overall, Dunhuang Museum is a great place to learn about Dunhuang history and Mogao Grottoes art, worth a visit"
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    61.5km from Aksay
    Highlights: The Dunhuang Museum is located in the south of Dunhuang City. It is a museum that displays the historical relics of Dunhuang in the Silk Road and the precious cultural relics in Mogao Grottoes. The museum has a very special appearance and looks like the walls of the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty and the beacon tower. Entering the interior of the museum seems to be a group of grottoes. The walls and corridors inside are all in the form of ancient cave corridors. The museum has multiple exhibition halls, but the main exhibition is the theme exhibition of the Dunhuang Museum - "The City of Huaying Intersection".
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  • No.8
    󰺂7.0
    4.5/5
    2274 Review
    "The merchant did not execute according to the content of the project booked on Trip.com. The ancient city (including tickets), Yumenguan (including ten sightseeing cars), and we still asked us to buy the ancient city ticket at our own expense at the time of execution. 40 yuan/person, Yumenguan sightseeing ticket 50 yuan/person."
    Dunhuang
    >100km from Aksay
    Highlights: Yadan National Geological Park, also known as Dunhuang Devil City, is an important landscape for tourists visiting the Dunhuang West Line (including Yumenguan, Han Great Wall, Yangguan, Xiqian Buddha Cave, etc.) in the Gobi Desert in the northwest of Dunhuang City. . The park is dominated by large and unique Yadan landforms and it looks fantastic and spectacular on the Gobi. Every evening, during the sunset, it is a wonderful place to shoot photos. Jinshi Yingbin, Pyramid, peacocks and Xihai fleets are important attractions in the scenic area.
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  • No.9
    󰺂7.0
    4.3/5
    1680 Review
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 115 reviews
    "A spring breeze did not reach the Yumenguan, and thousands of miles came to Dunhuang and came to the Yumenguan. In fact, the viewing value is average. It takes a long time to take a tourist bus to the generous plate, so it is not recommended to bring smaller children. Since there is a general strategy before coming, there is no big expectations, and there is no disappointment. It is a learning point when you are a child!"
    Dunhuang
    89.7km from Aksay
    Highlights: Yumen Pass was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty, also known as Xiaofangpancheng, which is the throat of the Silk Road leading to the Western Region. Because Hetian Meiyu entered the Central Plains from here since ancient times, it was called Yumenguan. With the erosion of thousands of years, Yumenguan has lost the appearance of the year. The current Yumenguan looks like a relic of a rammed earth pile. It is square and consists of four walls of earth. It opens on the northwest sides of the earth wall.
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  • No.10
    󰺂6.9
    5.0/5
    604 Review
    "Experienced such a camping in the desert, I still can't forget it. I participated in an event in the desert utv. The camp staff was very responsible and could actively solve problems. It was very good to meet this standard in the desert."
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    59.1km from Aksay
    Highlights: Dunhuang Mingsha Mountain Desert Camping Wild Luxury Base is located in the southwest of Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area. Here, you can climb Mingsha Mountain to feel the desolation and vastness of the Northwest Desert, and you can also ride off-road motorcycles to experience the speed and passion of galloping in the desert. The base currently provides a variety of recreational activities: sand motorcycle experience, UTV all-terrain vehicle surfing, sand boarding, camel riding, horse riding, zipline, swing, seesaw, etc. At the same time, it can provide a variety of desert experience projects such as team building, cross-country, barbecue, hiking, photography, tent camping, etc. At night, you can watch and shoot the vast starry sky in the desert.
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FAQ

What are some Best Things to Do near Aksay?
Some Best Things to Do near Aksay include:Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring, Mogao Grottoes, Water Yadan Geopark, See Dunhuang Again Performance, Yangguan Ancient Site
What are some highly-rated Best Things to Do near Aksay?
Some highly-rated Best Things to Do near Aksay include:Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring:4.7, Mogao Grottoes:4.5, Water Yadan Geopark:4.4, See Dunhuang Again Performance:4.3, Yangguan Ancient Site:4.4
Where are Best Things to Do near Aksay located?
The Best Things to Do near Aksay are mainly located in:Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring:Dunhuang, Mogao Grottoes:Dunhuang, Water Yadan Geopark:Golmud, See Dunhuang Again Performance:Dunhuang, Yangguan Ancient Site:Dunhuang
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