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Jiayuguan Guancheng
Jiayuguan Guancheng is located 5 km west of Jiayuguan city, marking the western end of the Ming Great Wall. The Guan City was initially built during the Ming dynasty. It is located in the Jiayuguan cultural relics scenic area.The admission ticket serves as a pass for the entire attraction. The attraction isn't too large, with a perimeter of approx. 4 km, making it suitable for walking. Visitors with limited stamina can rent bicycles at the entrance for touring. The entrance is on the east side. Upon entering, you will first see the Heishan stone carvings, a modern replica by stonemasons showcasing the history and culture of Jiayuguan. There are seven themed gardens to explore: the celebrity inscriptions garden, ancient poetry garden, chronicle garden, story garden, guerrilla general stone carvings garden, Wei-Jin brick mural stone carvings garden, and Heishan stone carvings garden. Continuing forward, you can see the Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum, a museum dedicated to the history and culture of the Great Wall. It features advanced facilities and showcases the history, culture, artifacts, and scenery of the Great Wall and Jiayuguan. Moving forward will take you to the western core area. Before entering the fortress, you can visit Jiuyanquan Lake on your left.Jiuyan springThe area boasts lush water plants and picturesque scenery, making it an ideal location for ancient military horse breeding and border defense. Today,Jiuyan springThe water ripples with crystal clarity.Jiuyan springIts beauty lies in its tranquility, undisturbed by waves. The Guan City of Jiayuguan is divided into inner and outer cities, featuring three main grand gate towers. The city walls also boast structures such as arrow towers, enemy towers, corner towers, watchtowers, and sluice gate towers. Inside the Guan City of Jiayuguan, you'll find the Residence of the Guerrilla General, the Jiayuguan Cultural Relics Attraction - Jingting Pavilion, and the Jiayuguan Cultural Relics Attraction - Wenchang Pavilion. Outside the east gate, there are the Jiayuguan Cultural Relics Attraction - Guandi Temple, memorial archways, and opera stages. Each of these has its own history and unique characteristics, making them all worth visiting. From atop the city walls, you can gaze into the distance, where the Qilian Mountains stretch endlessly, and the vast Gobi grassland lies beneath your feet, evoking a profound sense of historical grandeur and tragedy. The attraction features numerous small stalls showcasing folk and historical characteristics, including opportunities for ancient costume photos, calligraphy, and painting sales. You can explore each one and purchase items that catch your eye. Additionally, the attraction offers a variety of entertainment options such as horseback riding, camel riding, dune buggies, and gliders.Jiayuguan · 5.3 km from downtown
The Overhanging Great Wall Scenic Spot
The theme of the Great Wall in Suspension is the ancient silk road culture and Great Wall culture. The main contents of the tour include the Great Wall in Suspension, the Silk Road Sculpture Group, and the Jiayuguan Ancient Weapons Exhibition. The area is divided into four main zones: Shiguanxia Ancient Silk Road Cultural Promenade, the Military Defense System Area of the Great Wall in Suspension, the Leisure Resort and the Management Area. The ancient silk sculpture group carved statues of seven major historical figures, including Zhang Qian, Huo Qubing and Xuan Zang, recorded in the Jiayuguan area in ancient China, and five followers, two horses, two camels and a carriage statue.Jiayuguan · 12.6 km from downtown
Jiayuguan Fantawild Silk Road Dreamland
Jiayuguan Fantawild Silk Road Dreamland is adjacent to the world heritage Jiayuguan fortress. It presents Chinese culture, focusing on the silk road and the Great Wall. The park combines advanced technology with business operations to present the charm of this ancient trade route, and is the first high-tech silk road themed park in China. The new park has 45 themed attractions and more than 200 landscape designs. Nearly ten thousand visitors of different age groups went to the park on the day of its opening. After the opening ceremony, visitors entered into the park. Laughers could be heard everywhere, showing the charm of this new park.Jiayuguan · 4.9 km from downtown
Jiayuguan Cultural Relics Scenic Area
The Jiayuguan cultural relics scenic area includes three major attractions: Jiayuguan pass city, the overhanging great wall, and the first beacon tower of the great wall. It showcases the historical role of the Hexi corridor as a military barrier and a key town on the silk road, featuring the historical remains and sites of Jiayuguan's military defense system as its main view resources. The Guan City of Jiayuguan features a well-planned layout and excellent architectural design. It is divided into inner and outer cities, with three main grand gate towers and structures like arrow towers, enemy towers, corner towers, watchtowers, and sluice gate towers built along the city walls. The inner city serves as the core and main body of the Guan City, with a perimeter of 640 m and an area of 25,000 m². Outside the east and west gates of the inner city, there are protective barbicans, each covering over 500 m². The barbican gates all face south, and to the west of the western barbican lies the outer city wall, with a gate in the center facing west, inscribed with the characters "Jiayuguan" on its lintel. Key existing structures within the Guan City include the Residence of the Guerrilla General, the official well, Guandi Temple, an opera stage, and Wenchang Pavilion. The Hanging Great Wall is located 14 km northwest of Jiayuguan city, 8.4 km south of the Guan City of Jiayuguan, serving as a crucial component of Jiayuguan's military defense system. When Minister Zhai Luan inspected the Hexi defense system and found Jiayuguan's defenses inadequate, he petitioned the imperial court. Under the supervision of Li Han, the military defense officer of Suzhou, the northern and southern wings of Jiayuguan's Great Wall were constructed, known as the "Ming Wall and Hidden Wall." The Ming Wall ends at the "First Beacon Tower of the Great Wall" by the Taolai River south of the pass, while the Hidden Wall terminates at the Hanging Great Wall in the Shiguan Gorge north of the pass. Together, the Ming Wall and Hidden Wall act like a pair of iron wings guarding the Hexi Corridor for Jiayuguan. Thus, the Guan City, along with the northern and southern wings of the Great Wall and surrounding beacon towers, forms a complete military defense system. The first beacon tower of the Great Wall (also known as the first tower under heaven), as the westernmost beacon tower of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall, was historically called the Taolai River beacon. It borders Jiuquan to the east, connects to the desert in the west, leans against Jiayuguan in the north, and faces the Qilian Mountains in the south. Standing on a nearly 56 m high cliff by the Taolai River, it is also the southernmost beacon tower of Jiayuguan's western Great Wall, earning the title "the most perilous beacon tower under heaven". The First Beacon Tower attraction mainly includes sightseeing spots such as the underground valley, viewing platform, Taolai inn, perilous suspension bridge, ancient-style military camp, drunken on the battlefield, and century dragon forest.Jiayuguan · 6.5 km from downtown
Jiayuguan Fantawild Adventure
Jiayuguan Fantawild Happy World is located in the Taolaihe New District of Jiayuguan City. It is the fourth generation of high-tech theme park in Northwest China. Fantawild Happy World features science fiction and interactive experience. Jiayuguan Fantawild Happy World consists of more than a dozen large-scale theme project areas, including Flight Over the Limit, Light of Life, Conch Bay, Magic Castle, Boonie Bears Adventure, China Space City, Tanggula Snow Mountain, Fire Meteor, Fantawild Castle, etc., covering more than 200 theme projects, amusement projects, leisure and landscape projects. The actual opening status of various projects shall be subject to the on-Attraction spot.Jiayuguan · 5.2 km from downtown
The Great Wall pier
In the Ming Dynasty, Jiayuguan Pass had jurisdiction over "hinterland, border areas and external piers, totaling 39." Piers on the Pass were numerous, crossed each other, were visible from each other, and were used to exchange information. The First Pier of the Great Wall is in the south of the Pass, which was responsible for transmitting military information from the south of the Pass and from the sites in Qilian Mountain. The pier was equipped with docks, post horses, post camels, food, accommodation and firewood, as well as a certain number of guards.Jiayuguan · 7.4 km from downtown
Zi Xuan Wine Estate
Zixuan Wine Estate is located in Jiayuguan City. It is a wine brewing enterprise invested and built by Jiayuguan Hongfeng Industrial Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd., a steel base in Northwest my country. The total area of the manor is 654,000 square meters. The overall plan is to produce 50,000 tons of wine annually. The construction scale of the first phase of the project is to produce 10,000 tons of high-quality wine annually. Since the construction of the manor started on June 17, 2005, the construction of the first phase of the project has been completed. It has built wine production facilities of international advanced level such as pressing, fermentation, wine storage, filling, and research and development centers. The main equipment has been imported from France. Press, German cross-flow filter, Italian filling production line, French and American oak barrels, of which the 13,700-square-meter Zixuan No. 1 cellar is currently the largest wine cellar in Asia, and a beverage production line has also been built. and a well-equipped wine research and development center. Zixuan Wine Estate was officially rated as a national 4a-level industrial tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration in April 2010. On the basis of winemaking as the core function, the manor takes the eight basic steps of wine making as the main content, namely: "harvest → destemming → pulping → fermentation → vulcanization treatment →blend →bottling →sealing”. Focusing on the theme of wine, it is modeled on the architectural style of European towns, and is equipped with special functional areas such as a small membership-only leisure club, a theme leisure area, a professional underground wine cellar and an appreciation center.Jiayuguan · 8.4 km from downtown
Jiayuguan Guanchengli Scenic Area
The Jiayuguan·Guanchengli Attraction is located east of Jiayuguan Pass and north of the Heritage Park, along both sides of Shuangyong Road, with the ancient town on the north and the ancient street on the south. The Jiayuguan·Guanchengli project is a commercial and cultural ancient street integrating culture, tourism, landscape, shopping, performing arts, Dining, accommodation, leisure and entertainment. The ancient street business formats are divided into museum groups, hot spring villa homestay groups, Silk Road style street, Bailu Yinju Resort Hotel, Gudaoguanju, Tongguan Market, Mongolian Style Garden, etc.Jiayuguan · 5.9 km from downtown
Jiayuguan Museum of the Great Wall
The exhibition of cultural relics in Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum fully utilizes modern technologies such as sound, light and electricity, and is equipped with more advanced domestic facilities such as voice simultaneous translation system, automatic monitoring system, automatic constant temperature system, automatic fire alarm system, and tourist inquiry system. , which is a leading level among the provincial museums. Among them, the "Soul of China" Great Wall historical and cultural exhibition includes: "Golden Horses and Iron Horses - Frontier Fortresses - Ancient Great Wall War"; "Sunset on the Long River - Silk Road Flower Rain - Hexi Great Wall and Silk Road"; - Jiayuguan" four units. The total area of the exhibition is 2700 square meters. The oil painting condenses the main landscape of the Great Wall of China into the scroll with a combination of freehand brushwork and realism. The oil painting covers an area of 220.5 square meters. The hyper-realistic sculpture scene "Yangguan Pass in the West, Yumen in Spring" is based on the Yangguan Pass and Yumen Pass of the Great Wall of Hexi, and uses modern polymer materials as a technique to vividly reproduce the grand occasion of cultural exchanges between China and the West on the Silk Road during the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The background oil painting of the scene of "drunk on the battlefield" depicts the magnificent frontier scenery of "smoke in the desert and the sunset on the long river", while the sculpture shows the cruelty, sadness and cruelty of the battle scene of "drunk on the battlefield, Lord Grim, a few people from ancient times." Brave.Jiayuguan · 7 km from downtown
Manjusri Temple Grottoes
Wenshu Temple is located in Qifeng Tibetan Township, Sunan County, Zhangye City, but is closer to Jiayuguan and Jiuquan, and only about ten kilometers away from the urban areas of the two cities. It is a thousand-year-old temple built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There are many sects of Han Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Taoism in the temple, and there are many caves and murals. It is an art treasure house. Because the style is very similar to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, it is also known as the "Little Western Paradise". Wenshu Temple is divided into two parts, the front mountain and the back mountain. The distance between the front and back mountain is about 800 meters. Generally, it takes 2-3 hours to walk around. There are more than 100 caves and niches in the temple. Among them, the more important ones are the front mountain Thousand Buddha Cave, Ten Thousand Buddha Cave and the back mountain Ancient Buddha Cave, Thousand Buddha Cave, etc. The niches in the caves are ancient and solemn, and there are precious and wonderful murals to see. In addition to the caves, there are also unique temple buildings such as the Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda and the City God Temple. Most of them have a long history and can be visited one by one.Jiayuguan · 14.1 km from downtown
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Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area
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Jiayuguan City Museum
Jiayuguan · 187m from downtown
Taolai River
Jiayuguan · 8.4 km from downtown
Jiuquan Museum
Jiuquan · 17.9 km from Jiayuguan
West Han Dynasty Jiuquan Park
Jiuquan · 21.1 km from Jiayuguan
Jiuquan Drum Tower
Jiuquan · 19.2 km from Jiayuguan
Jiuyanquan Park
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What travelers say about Jiayuguan
OnesannaOctober 21, 2026
5.0
Amazing place! The fort is beautiful! Finding the bus to the other to sites of the great wall was difficult. The buses are in the parking lot extra 20 yuans
Jiayuguan Guancheng
M41***81September 27, 2026
5.0
The Overhanging Great Wall was too crowded; parking was free but difficult, and it seemed like it would easily cause a traffic jam. The First Beacon Tower was actually quite nice, with a good feel to it, being completely natural.
The Overhanging Great Wall Scenic Spot
M27***46October 4, 2026
5.0
We set off at 9:00 AM and arrived at the park entrance at 10:15 AM, just in time for the 11:00 AM Meng Jiangnu Theater. My daughter had planned our trip in advance, downloading the Fantawild App, which helped us efficiently plan our rides and save time. We only visited the park's most thrilling and classic attractions, and even then, it took us eight hours. However, it was definitely worth it—the experience was fantastic!
Jiayuguan Fantawild Silk Road Dreamland
M2b***ocOctober 2, 2026
5.0
Fantawild was a fantastic experience! The park combines thrilling rides with immersive 4D entertainment. It's clean and tidy, and the parade and nighttime fireworks create a fantastic atmosphere. It's suitable for families and friends, and offers great value for money. I'd definitely come back!
Jiayuguan Fantawild Adventure
💗任槑槑💗August 16, 2026
4.0
It's raining continuously in Jiayuguan today; please be careful of slippery surfaces while visiting.
The wind is strong in the open fields, making it feel quite cold; be sure to bring a windproof jacket.
As the western starting point of the Ming Great Wall, the rammed earth beacon stands on the cliff edge of the Taolai River Valley, its weather adding to the desolate atmosphere of the frontier.
A free sightseeing bus is required to reach the ruins, offering views of the canyon landscape.
The Great Wall pier
_TI***7tJuly 29, 2026
5.0
Great tour round the wine facilities, ending in the huge cellar. Tour guide only speaks Chinese but if you don't know the language you can read some english signage and translate the ones that aren't in english. 3 wines tasted were all delicious
Zi Xuan Wine Estate
雁远亭旧March 21, 2025
5.0
Come and see the tower. The first pass in the world. As the western end of the Great Wall, Chinese people should come and see it.
Jiayuguan Guanchengli Scenic Area
好景致July 16, 2022
5.0
The Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum is the first museum in my country that focuses on the history of the Long March. The exhibition gives a detailed introduction to the Great Wall. The total exhibition area is nearly 3,000 square meters. It is academic, interesting, and interactive. You can come in and visit.
Jiayuguan Museum of the Great Wall
cparisshJanuary 13, 2022
4.0
It is best to ask a professional tour guide in the scenic area to help explain. If a few people form a small group, it will not cost much, but you can hear a lot of things. Otherwise, if you watch it alone, you will not understand it and it will be boring.
Manjusri Temple Grottoes
