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No way, no way, you can still have this much fun taking kids to Northwest China

📢 Parents, spend 8 days taking your children to Northwest China!! 🏜️ Here you will find the cultural treasure of Chinese history, the Mogao Caves, the "First and Greatest Pass Under Heaven" Jiayuguan, and Yangguan, the frontier pass from ancient poems where no friends remain westward. Here, the kids will become little cultural ambassadors—acting out the pass with a popular gatekeeper, little color inheritors—extracting pigments from minerals using ancient methods, and little salt harvesters—learning salt harvesting techniques at Chaka Salt Lake. 🔖 Follow Xiao Ye’s steps to Northwest China, where everyone learns and plays together!! 🏆 Summer Fun in Northwest China—Qinghai-Gansu Loop Parent-Child Study Tour Event Dates: April 2024—August 2024 Group Size: 4 families per group, maximum 25 people per group 🌈 Study Classes ✔️ Expert explanations of the Mogao Caves, learning about Dunhuang culture ✔️ Study Dunhuang colors, make mineral pigments using ancient methods ✔️ Mogao Cave clay tablet painting, experience the work of Dunhuang painters from a thousand years ago ✔️ Indoor astronomy lectures by top experts, guiding children to explore the universe ✔️ Star-gazing experts lead star observation, exploring the mysteries of the night sky ✔️ Jiayuguan pass reenactment, dialogue with the popular gatekeeper about past and present ✔️ Jiayuguan Great Wall construction, restoring ancient craftsmen’s techniques ✔️ Interpretation of frontier poems at Yangguan, reciting poems with teachers to pass the test ✔️ The magical world of salt, curator personally explains salt culture ✔️ Little salt harvesters, learning salt carving and processing crafts ✔️ VIP deep tour of Danxia landforms, understanding geology and terrain 🔥 Special Experiences ▫️ Customized grassland carnival, horseback riding, barbecue, and visiting Tibetan herders ▫️ Yangguan soldier reenactment, feeling like you are inside frontier poems ▫️ Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Lake tour, sand sliding, off-road riding, and camel riding ▫️ Special Northwest cuisine, tasting delicious local flavors ▫️ Beautiful photo shoot at Dacaidan Emerald Lake, get high-quality travel photos ▫️ Fireworks under the starry sky, stars and fireworks sparkling together ✈️ Itinerary D1: Gather in Xining—Opening ceremony D2: Xining—Menyuan rapeseed flowers—Qilian grassland secret carnival—Zhangye D3: Zhangye Danxia VIP tour—Jiayuguan cultural ambassador D4: Jiayuguan Great Wall construction—Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Lake D4: Dunhuang Mogao Caves VIP—Dunhuang clay tablet painting—Desert star-gazing D5: Dunhuang—Yangguan farewell—Dacaidan Emerald Lake—Dacaidan D6: Dacaidan—Magical salt world—Chaka D7: Chaka—Qinghai Lake—Dismiss in Xining 🏨 Hotel Introduction 🌌 Chaka Salt Lake Starry Sky Bubble House The hotel is located within the Sky No.1 Scenic Area of Chaka Salt Lake. It features fully transparent spherical starry sky rooms with 360° mountain and lake views. Open the curtains to see the beautiful Chaka Salt Lake. The rooms are fully equipped and come with a high-end smart-controlled astronomical telescope, allowing you to enjoy a comfortable sleep under the dazzling starry sky.
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