24 hours in Zhangye 🌈⛰️

We made a Trip to Zhangye in Gansu province to see the spectacular rainbow mountains with our own eyes. We flew from Beijing Daxing airport and it took 2:45 hours to get to Zhangye.

On arrival we found our hotel and it was just by a food market, we had lunch and breakfast here during our stay.

We were five persons traveling together so we asked our hotel to arrange trips for us around Zhangye. They had a mini bus to take us around.

First stop: 🌈 Rainbow mountains

We had certain expectations and were not disappointed. You can actually see the colors in the mountains. Its reddish sandstone that has been eroded to create magnificent rock formations with gorgeous colors over billions of years. By entrance of the park we had to take a bus to the different viewing points.

Second stop: Bingguo Danxia landform

Bingguo is the lesser known Danxia in the shadow of Rainbow mountain with less colors, mainly red. However we found it extremely cool to do a 3 hour hike in this spectacular landscape.

Third stop: Giant Buddha temple

With the largest sleeping Buddha in China. We had a little stroll inside the temple to kill time before our train Dunhuang.

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Post by Iris-ka | Nov 4, 2023