Dunhuang

The White Pagoda Dagoda

Dunhuang, a city of Gansu province, was a town of military importance on the Silk Road. It used to be called Shazhou being a throat for the East and West communication. In 1986, it is entitled to be "China historical and cultural city". It is located in the west of Hexi Corridor of Gansu province of China. The city was made a prefecture in 117 BC by Emperor Han Wudi, and was a major point of interchange between China and the outside world during the Han and Tang dynasties are Qinqiang Drama, handicraft carpets. The oasis town lies in an irrigated cotton-producing oasis.
The White Pagoda Dagoda is reminiscent in its shape of the White Dagoda in Beijing.
The Mogao Caves, also known as the Mogao Grottoes or the Caves of Thousand Buddhas, were constructed over a millennium, from the 4th to the 14th centuries, and represent the height of Buddhist art and the world’s richest treasure house of Buddhist sutras, murals and sculptures.
Lunar Lake and the Singing Sand Mountain are purely tourist attractions in Dunhuang.