Linxia | Bingling Temple Grottoes | Underrated cultural heritage.

1.5 hours’ drive from Lanzhou, there is a beautiful and smart town - Yongjing, Gansu. In addition to the scenery of the Yellow River, it also has the world cultural heritage of Bingling Temple Grottoes, which is known as one of the five largest grottoes in China. ️ ✅The Bingling Temple Grottoes have a history of more than 1,000 years, and were excavated about 100 years earlier than the Mogao Grottoes. It is a must-pass place on the ancient Silk Road heading south to Tubo, and is also one of the earliest dated grottoes in China. ✅The excavation of the entire grottoes spanned a long period of time, starting from the Western Qin Dynasty, and going through the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Song, Western Xia, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It has been continuously expanded and repaired in various dynasties to reach its current scale. ✅Here you can see the Gandhara art of West Asia, the Mathura art of India, the Kucha art, the Northern Liang art, the Chang'an art and the Tibetan Buddhist art... ✅Bingling Stone Forest is very suitable for light hiking, the trail is flat, and there is no pressure for the elderly and children ✅The ticket is 50 yuan, and children are half price; there are also tickets for the ticket and the stone forest. We drove there by ourselves and the parking fee was 5 yuan; you can also take a speedboat from Liujiaxia to Bingling Temple Grottoes. The manual explanation is at the ticket gate, about 10 yuan per person. The tour guide is waiting for us in Cave No. 3. The whole explanation takes about 30 minutes.