Bingling Temple Tour

Tour Code: CCT-LZT03S

Destinations: Lanzhou, Bingling Temple

Tour Duration: 3 Days

Tour Highlights: Bingling Temple, Binglingsi Caves, Lanzhou Waterwheel Garden, Gansu Provincial Museum

Tour Features

Bingling Temple, Binglingsi Caves, Lanzhou Waterwheel Garden, Gansu Provincial Museum

Itinerary

Day 01 Lanzhou (L, D)

Arrive in Lanzhou city, the capital of Gansu Province. Meet your local guide at the airport and check in four-star Lanzhou Legend Hotel. Today’s first visit is Gansu Provincial Museum. As the most impressive museum in Gansu province, this museum has more than 100,000 historical and cultural relics as well as plant, animal, and mineral specimens in its collection. Continue to Lanzhou Waterwheel Garden where you can admire Giant ancient waterwheels used for irrigation of the farming fields along the Yellow River in ancient Lanzhou City.

Day 02 Lanzhou / Bingling Temple / Lanzhou (B, L, D)

Following breakfast today is 1.5 hours drive to Bingling Temple which is located in Yongjing County, southwest of Lanzhou city. You firstly get to Liujiaxia Reservoir where you take one hour boat ride to Bingling Temple. Bingling Temple Caves, also known as Thousand Buddha Caves, have 183 grottoes filled with 679 stone figures and 82 clay figures carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. Bingling Temple Caves are mainly made up of the upper temple, the lower temple and the caves in between. You can tour around by taking the stairs and the wooden plank road built along the cliffs. Transfer back to Lanzhou in the late afternoon.

Day 03 Lanzhou (B)

After breakfast, transfer to the airport and service ends.