Bingling Temple (Chinese: 炳靈寺) is located in Yongjing County of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (臨夏回族自治州) in Gansu (甘肅) province, China. ‘Bingling’ in Tibetan means ‘Thousand Buddha’, so Bingling Temple Grottoes are also called Thousand-Buddha Caves.
Bingling Temple (Chinese: 炳靈寺) is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River, it is located in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (臨夏回族自治州) in Gansu (甘肅) province, China.
Liujiaxia Reservoir (Chinese: 劉家峽水庫) is located at Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (臨夏回族自治區), Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The reservoir formed by the dam is the largest body of water within the province, which is about 70 km from the provincial capital Lanzhou (蘭州).
Kongtong Mountains (Chinese: 崆峒山) is located in Pingliang (平涼) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. Kongtong Mountains is the holy mountain of Taoismis, which is noted for its marvelous natural scenery and exquisite man made landscapes.
Kongtong Mountains (Chinese: 崆峒山) is located in Pingliang (平涼) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. The scenic area of Kongtong Mountains can be divided into two parts: the Taoist area and the Buddhist area, while the Taoist area is more beautiful.
Yellow River Stone Forest (Chinese: 黃河石林) is located in the southeast of Jingtai (景泰) County, Baiyin (白銀) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. Yellow River Stone Forest covers an area of about 10 square kilometers, which was formed around 2 millions years ago.
Yellow River Stone Forest (Chinese: 黃河石林) is located in the southeast of Jingtai (景泰) County, Baiyin (白銀) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. There are eight gullies in the scenic area, Yinmagou (飲馬溝) is amongst the most popular.
Yellow River Stone Forest (Chinese: 黃河石林) is located in the southeast of Jingtai (景泰) County, Baiyin (白銀) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. Situated at the edge of Gobi, the weather here is extremely harsh, but some people still live here.
Yellow River Stone Forest (Chinese: 黃河石林) is located in the southeast of Jingtai (景泰) County, Baiyin (白銀) City, Gansu (甘肅) Province, China. Besides the splendid scenery of the massive stone pillars, tourists can also enjoy the fun of river rafting by sheepskin raft (羊皮筏).
Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་) is an autonomous prefecture in Southern Gansu Province, China. Gannan is a desolate place but the scenery is beautiful.
Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་) is located in Xiahe (Chinese: 夏河) County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州), Gansu (甘肅), China. The monastery looks very splendid, but a hill next to it is also worth seeing.
Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་) is located in Xiahe (Chinese: 夏河) County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州), Gansu (甘肅), China. Founded in 1709, the monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
First bend of Yellow River (Chinese: 黃河第一彎) is located at the common border of Sichuan (四川) province, Qinghai (青海) province and Gansu (甘肅) province of China, but Zoigê County (Tibetan: མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།) is deemed to be the best place to enjoy its sunrise.
First bend of Yellow River (Chinese: 黃河第一彎) is located at the common border of Sichuan (四川) province, Qinghai (青海) province and Gansu (甘肅) province of China, but Zoigê County (Tibetan: མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་།) is deemed to be the best place to enjoy its splendor.
Fuxi Temple (Chinese: 伏羲廟) is located in Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肅), China. It was the 14th day of the first month in the lunar calendar when Choumeizai visited there, the locals were still celebrating lunar new year.
Fuxi Temple (Chinese: 伏羲廟) is located in Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肅), China. The construction of Fuxi Temple began in Yuan (元) Dynasty (14th century), but most of the structures nowadays were built in Qing (清) Dynasty (18th century).
Xianrenya (Chinese: 仙人崖) is part of Maijishan (麥積山), which is located in Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肅), China. The construction of Xianrenya began in the 5th century, but most of the temples we see nowadays were built in the Qing Dynasty (17th century).
Maijishan Grottoes (Chinese: 麥積山石窟) are a series of 194 caves cut in the side of the hill of Majishan in Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肅) , China. Maijishan is a mountain formed of purplish red sandstone that literally translates as ‘Wheatstack Mountain’.
Gahai (Chinese: 尕海) is located in Luqu County (碌曲縣), Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州) in the south of Gansu province (甘肅省), China. The area of Gahai is around 2400 Hectare, which is the biggest plateau lake in Gansu.
