Jiaohe Ancient City is located at Yar Town, 13km west of Turpan City in Xinjiang Uyghur anonymous region. It was built up as an isolated island plateau in the middle of a river which gifted the city natural defense. Perched target="_blank" title="China">China for the place is full of history and ...
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Featuring astonishing, fiery and odd landscape, a 100km red sandstone ridge about 500m high along with its surrounding mountains has been named as the Flaming Mountains. Although not all the Chinese have been there, however, most of them have known this place since childhoods for writer Wu Cheng’e...
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A joint application submitted by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan was reviewed and approved by UNESCO on June 22, 2014, which had Gaochang Ancient City in Xinjiang Uygur Anonymous Region written into the World Heritage List. Gaochang Ancient City is a time-honored old town. It was originally erec...
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Turpan Museum is target="_blank" title="China">China and a first-rate national museum as well. Located at the town center, Turpan Museum houses a great collection of cultural relics over food, gold, silver, ceramic, ancient passports as well as the wonderful paraceratherium fossils (fossils of a ...
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Located near Turpan city and 11km north of Gaochang, Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves is a site forming of ancient religious caves and shrines dating back to AD 400 to AD 1,300. Perched on the very cliff of Mugou Valley in the Flaming Mountains area, Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves had been firstly ...
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