The Hexi Corridor was the Silk Road’s narrow passage west. We drive it: from Lanzhou on the Yellow River to Zhangye’s striped Danxia mountains, the fortress at the western end of the Great Wall, and Dunhuang, where the Mogao Caves hold a thousand years of Buddhist painting.
Don’t miss
- The Zhangye Danxia rainbow mountains at sunset
- Jiayuguan, the fort at the Great Wall’s western end
- The Mogao Caves (limited daily tickets, booked for you)
- The Mingsha singing dunes and Crescent Lake