Lying at the foot of Sighing Sands Dune and 25km southeast of Dunhuang City, Mogao Grottoes measures 1,680 meters from south to north. It has more than 700 caves, of which 492 caves hold more than 2,000 painted sculptures and 45,000 square meters of murals. There are five grottoes with a wooden structure. Mogao is the largest, oldest and the best-preserved Buddhist grottoes with the richest contents in the world today.

Sighing Sand Dune starts from Mogao Grottoes in the east. It is 40km from east to west, and 20 from south and north. The dune with an elegant shape. When people slide down along the slopes, a sound will be heard, hence the name. Crescent Spring is surrounded by the sand dunes with the shape of crescent. It is a miracle that the spring has never dried up over the past thousand years.

The distance between the downtown city and Dunhuang railway station is 128km, which makes Dunhuang railway station the farthest station from city in China.

Jiayuguan City is famous for its Jiayuguan Pass. Jiayuguan Pass is the western terminus of the Great Wall, built more than 600 years ago. Its majestic and solid construction is so full of power and grandeur that it has been praised as ' Mighty Pass No.1 Under Heaven'. Unlike the Shanhaiguang Pass or the Juyongguagn Pass on the Great Wall, it nestles against Mt. Qilian and Gobi Desert and is therefore imposing in its own way. It was a strategic point at the western section of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty and is the best preserved pass along the entire length of the wall. It is a magnificent castle, composed of an inner and an outer section, an enclosed gateway, a gate power, watch towers and parapets.

Xuanbi Great Wall is also a part of the Great wall. It got the name for its unique architecture construction. Looked in a far distance, it seems that Xuanbi Great Wall stands on a mountain about 150 meter above the ground.

Located about 18km in the east of Jiayuguan Pass , Mural-bearing Bricks Tomb owns over 1,000 tombs of Wei and Jing Dynasties. Inside these tombs, you will find many brick-pictures of ancient life created by ancient people. As a result, Mural-bearing Bricks Tomb is also well known as a ' Underground Gallery'.

Turpan, an oasis city, is located at the south foot of Bogda Peak and the center of Turpan Depression. Because of the drastic 5,000-meter difference in height between the mountain tops and the bottom of the depression, the scenery too, varies greatly at different altitudes from perpetual snow at the summits to green oasis at the foot of the mountains. After a long journey from the desert, tourists are always fascinated by the strange beauty of the depression with its snow-capped mountains, its salt lake, and particularly its Flaming Mountains. Turpan is not only special for its low altitude, but also for its strange climate. In summer the temperature can reach as high as 47oC (117oF), while on the surface of the sand dunes, it might be 82oC (180oF). It is no exaggeration to say that you can bake a cake in the hot sand. The average annual rainfall is little more than ten millimeters; sometimes there is no rain for ten months at a stretch. Days are exceptionally sunny throughout the year. The hot and dry climate is especially beneficial to sugar crops. Fruit trees, melons, and particularly grapes grow very well in the Turpan Depression. Every year more than a thousand tons of grapes are exported to foreign countries. The city used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as 2,000 years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built four kilometers from today's Turpan. Jiaohe then was the capital of the Outer Chshi Kingdom. During the first century, Jiaohe came under the rule of the Han Dynasty. During the sixth century, Turpan was under the administration of Gaochang Kingdom. During the reign of Emperor Tai Zong (626-649), the Gaochang Kingdom was conquered by the Tang Dynasty, and Turpan again became a frontier town of China, serving as a stopover for merchants, monks, and other travelers on their way to the west.

Coach tour drive to Gaochang Ancient City (40km from Turpan City) ,an extensive ruin since the Tang Dynasty and an ancient Chinese garrison town on the silk road 1st century AD(will be taken by donkey cart to visit the temple area). The foundation of Gaochang was laid in the 1st century BC. The city was built during the Western Han Dynasty and re-built in the early Ming Dynasty. It was an important site along the Silk Road, but was burnt down in wars in the 14th century. Old palace ruins known as the best-preserved one of its kind, can still be seen today.

Then you will pass by Flaming Mountain, made famous in the Chinese classic literature of “Journey to the West”, and then visit the Bezeklik caves which is located in a gorgeous valley of Flaming Mountain, and Astana Ancient Tombs(3rd—8 rd centuries ). The Grape Valley is located in Flaming Mountain. From the ancient times, the place is famous for the cultivation of the sweet and tasted grapes. Here you can catch the sight of green pearl-like grapes hanging one bunches after another. Just settling yourselves under the green leaves and try the fresh juicy fruit to enjoy the coolness different from the outside.

Visit Bezeklik Caves which is located in a gorgeous valley of Flaming Mountain. More than 100 caves have been hewn out of this cliff face between the 6th and 9th centuries by Buddhist monks who farmed the valley below. They were abandoned at about the same time as Gaochang Ancient City and Jiaohe Ancient City after the Muslim take over of the region in the late 14th century.

Then comes to Astana Tomb, 6km from Gaochang, the public cemetery of the ancient Gaochang residents, both aristocrats and commoners. However, among the excavated 456 tombs, King of Gaochang has not been found. The dead are placed on an earthen or wooden bed in the back of the chamber. They had wood in both hands and wore cotton, linen or silk clothes. Around them are miniature pavilions, carts and horses, parades, musical instruments, chess sets, pens and ink, grapes, melons, dumplings and pancakes. In the ancient Chinese people's mind, these are to be used by the dead in another world. Owing to the arid climate, the relics are very well preserved. Dumplings are the same as today's with its stuffing as intact as it was when fresh. Some chambers are decorated with murals of vivid pictures of humans, animals, flowers, mountains, and rivers. A painting of ladies playing chess illustrates the happy life of aristocrats in the early Tang Dynasty.

Xinjiang is esteemed as a home to song and dance. Where there is a singing, there are music instruments accompanying the songs. If you are interesting in ethnic music and music instruments of Xijiang, you could choose to enjoy a Uygur Ethnic Minority Dance Show in the courtyard at night.

Today visit the mysterious death city- Jiaohe Ancient City, which reveals traces of a prosperous ancient trading center and military stronghold at 1,600 years ago, used to be the most frontal barrier at the west for the dynasties.

Known as the underground Great Wall of China, Karez Well is the unique cultural heritage of Xinjiang. The total length of the underground channel of Karez in Xinjiang amounts to 5,000 meters. Karez was once served as the irrigation system in the ancient times. It was built against the slope of the mountains to avoid to hot and dry weather as well as the wind.

Suited about 2km at east of Turpan, Sugong Pagoda is the best reserved and biggest Islam pagoda in Xinjiang. It was used to show the ancient Uygur leaders' loyalty and respect to Chinese Emperor.

Urumqi is a far-removed world of Silk Road. The city once was an important transportation hub on the ancient Silk Road, and now is served as the capital city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, the city is on the northern slope of Mt. Tianshan and at the southern edge of Jungar Basin. With the unique natural beauty and rich folk custom, Urumqi is an ideal tourist city of China.

Tianchi Lake is located at the half way of Bogda Peak in Fukang County, 110km east of Urumqi City. As a natural alpine lake, it has an elevation of 1,980 meters. In the shape of a half moon, the lake is 3,400 meters long, about 1,500 meters wide, and 105 meters at the deepest point. With limpid water, the lake shines like a sapphire under the sun and is surrounded by green mountains. To the southeast of the lake is the magnificent Bogda Peak with its meaning of the sacred mountain in Mongolian language.

Enjoy yourself in the largest Uigur bazaar in Er Daoqiao Market suited at the Er Daoqiao Block of the South Jie Fang Road in Urumqi, where you'll find a bustling market filled with fruit, clothing, crafts, knives, carpets and so on. The market has special room for grand entertainment performance and the folk street is furnished with the miniature landscape of Xinjiang's tourist scenic spots so that you might get a whole view of natural sights and human landscapes while appreciating ethnic song and dances.

Nanshan Pasture is a fertile place with charming mountains around. Among the mountains White Willow Ditch is a unique and graceful peak standing side by side with snow on tops all year round. In the pasture you can ride on horse running through the valleys, or walk across the woods to pick mushrooms.

Hemmed in by deserts and the Pamirs, Kashgar is a fabled city embracing a rich mixed culture with Mosques and veiled women contributing to its Middle East atmosphere.

Visit Etgar Mosque and Apakhoja Mausoleum in the morning. Etgar Mosque is the biggest mosque in Xinjiang and even China nowadays, covering a land area of 16,800 square meters. The mosque stands on the west of the Etgar Square, facing the center of Kashgar City. Apakhoja Mausoleum stands about 5 km east of Kashgar City. The height of main structure for the mausoleum is 26 meters, whose roof looks like a dome with the diameter of 17 meters and without beams to support. The legend goes that a lady called Yiparhan of Hojia's descendants was once an imperial concubine of Qianlong Emperor. She was commonly-known as a ' Fragrant Concubine'. Therefore the structure is also called 'Fragrant Concubine Tomb' by the locals. Continue your visit to Kashgar Ancient Town in the afternoon. The ancient town will bring you thousand years after back to a paramilitary age.

Beijing, China's capital and a well-known tourist city of the world, offers sights and cultural relics found no where on earth. The city has its own individuality, that's the flavor of Beijing. The quadrangle, small alley, tricycle, boiled mutton, roasted duck, Peking Opera, arts and crafts you can see, hear and feel them all only when you come to the city yourself.

As the biggest public square in the world, Tian’anmen Square conquers you with its grandeur at the first sight. You are quite glad to begin your first-day tour here. Then you are leaded to Forbidden City. It is the imperial palace for 24 emperors during Ming and Qing Dynasties and the biggest ancient architecture complex in the world. You walk in the museum to see with your eyes, to touch with your hands and fell with your hearts. Thanks to this wonderful visiting, you know how the richest feudal country was and how the top rulers and their concubines lived. After enjoyed a nice Chinese lunch , you continue your trip to Temple of Heaven. Different from the red and golden in the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heave is based on a color of blue, which stands the color of sky. You feel the perfect harmony between the architecture and nature and a circle and peace spirit of Chinese people. You even could imagine the vivid pictures of a great sacrifice to the Heaven for good harvest through the description of local guide.

The Great Wall (Badaling Section) is located in the suburb 75km northwest of Beijing. The highway from Beijing to the Great Wall is smooth and comfortable. The Great Wall is the symbol of China and the wisdom of Chinese people. It is very unbelievable that Chinese succeeded in building such a great architecture with simple tools in ancient time. The construction of the Great Wall began in the 5th century BC. The wall has a total length of 6,700km, traveling up and down over numerous mountains and valleys. Starting in the east at Shanhaiguan Pass, it crosses Hebei Province, Beijing, Shanxi Province, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province, and ending up in Jiayuguan at Gansu Province. It is said the Great Wall is the only man-made project which is visible from the moon. Badaling Section is one of the best preserved and most accessible parts with the essence of the whole Great Wall.

The Ming Tombs are located in the northern suburbs of Beijing, consisting of 13 tombs of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty after the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing. Now there are only two tombs, Changling and Dingling, open to the visitors. The Lingsi Palace in Changling Tomb's second yard as really deserves a visit. This is unique as it is the only huge palace made of camphor wood. The ceiling is colorfully painted and supported by sixteen solid camphor posts. The floor is decorated with gold bricks.

Tonight’s dinner should be a highlight for your tour since you taste the most famous Peking Roasted Duck. From the whole roasted duck to the soup of duck tones, you enjoy a banquet of every part of a duck. Moreover, the chef shows his skill of cutting the skin of duck on live. Not only your taste is fulfilled but also your eyes are entertained.