Lanzhou Attractions
Lanzhou is the capital city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. As a key regional railroad transportation hub connected to the eastern half of the country, Lanzhou has sights full of Tibetan Buddhism and Muslim culture.
Gansu Provincial Museum
Located at Qilihe of Lanzhou City, the Gansu Provincial Museum is a local comprehensive museum. First built in 1956, the Museum's predecessor is the Science Education Hall of Gansu built in 1939. After several name changes, the Museum got its present name in 1956 and was opened to the public in 1958. The Museum covers a construction area of 180,000 square meters.
White Pagoda Hill
Located in the north of Lanzhou City, the White Pagoda Park owes its name to the amazing White Pagoda within it. With images of Buddha on its eight sides, the seven-story pagoda with a height of 17 meters (about 55.8 feet), is a pure white from top to bottom with the exception of the green top which greatly enhances the glamour of the whole building.
Bingling Temple Grottoes
Bingling Temple Grottoes is one of five Grottoes in China, lies in the north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir of Yongjing County, Lanzhou City.
Xiahe County & Sangke Grasslands
Xiahe county are famous for Labrang Lamasery & mysterial Tibetan Buddhist culture and beautiful Sangke grasslands and Daxiahe river sights. Xiahe provides a cool, quiet respite from both the sweltering sands and disorderly tour groups of Dunhuang in Gansu.
Labrang Monastery
First built in 1710 during the Qing emperor Kangxi's reign (1662-1722), the Labrang Lamasery (or Labrang Monastery) in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southern Gansu Province, is one of the six patriarchal lamaseries of the Gelugpa Sect of Lamaism in China (the other five bing Gandan Lamasery, Drepung Lamasery, Sera Lamasery in the Lhasa area, Tashilhungpo Lamasery in Huangzhong, Qinghai Province).
Sangke Grasslands
The Sangke Grasslands (Sangke caoyuan) lies 10km southwest of Xiahe Town, with an average altitude of over 3,000m above sea level. The grassland is named for the summer-blooming Sangke flowers that form a natural carpet extending to the far horizons
Iron Bridge of Yellow River
Zhongshan Iron Bridge of Yellow River, also known as the first bridge over the Yellow River, lies at the foot of Bai Ta Mountain and in front of Jin Cheng Pass in Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province.
