[2024 Zhongwei Stay] Travel Guide for Stray Birds Hotel (Updated Nov)
Northwest Travel | Must-Stay Hidden Gem Hotels
You must visit the Northwest at least once to see its deserts, sunsets, Gobi, starry skies, lakes, and grasslands, and to witness the magnificent scenery and brilliant history~
Xiao You has compiled a list of 9 trustworthy and pitfall-free hidden gem hotels for everyone
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Dunhuang Biyue Hotel
📍Backed by the Mingsha Mountain, adjacent to a vast vineyard
♦️The first SLH hotel in the Northwest, an oasis in the wilderness, a desert garden, a secluded haven along the Silk Road, the hotel offers a variety of services such as travel photography, grape picking, vegetable gardens, desert off-roading, children's club, pottery, and more. The afternoon tea is also fantastic
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Dongyi Dunhuang Hotel
📍About 5 minutes from Mingsha Mountain, about 10 minutes from Mogao Caves
♦️The hotel offers a variety of room types with diverse scenic views, direct access to Dongyi Crescent Spring, exclusive rooftop stargazing, a broad view of the majestic Mingsha Mountain, and the afterglow of the desert and Populus euphratica forests, making it a beautiful and photogenic desert art hotel
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Chaka Salt Lake Starry Sky Bubble House
📍Inside the Chaka Salt Lake Sky No.1 Scenic Area
♦️Consisting of many transparent bubble houses built on the salt lake, offering 360° views, you can lie down to watch the sunset, sunrise, and stargaze from bed at night. The hotel is also equipped with an astronomical telescope
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Solitary Interstellar Gobi Luxury Hotel
📍Close to the Shanshui Yardang and Dongtaijiner Lake
♦️The hotel's unique villas are built on the cliffs of the Yardang, offering beautiful views of the Yardang, desert, salt lake, and Gobi all in one frame, and it also has large-scale glass dome starry sky rooms, where you can also experience AMV sand surfing
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Mangya Mars Camp
📍On the northwestern edge of the Qaidam Basin
♦️With its unique Yardang erosional landforms, whether in color or geology, it feels like being on another planet, where you can experience various Mars-themed activities
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Zhongwei Desert Star Hotel
📍In the hinterland of the Tengger Desert in the Shapotou scenic area
♦️The first hotel in China themed around desert stargazing, the hometown of stars, where you can look up to see a sky full of stars and step outside to play in the sand. The hotel also offers various activities, indoor lectures, desert stargazing, and more
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Zhongwei Desert Milky Way Resort Hotel
📍In the hinterland of the Tengger Desert in the northwest part of the Shapotou area
♦️A series of scattered cottages with great privacy, special Milky Way rooms, each with its own swimming pool, distributed on the undulating desert, offering a unique flavor
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Yellow River Lodgings Collection
📍In Dawan Village near the Shapotou scenic area
♦️Bringing together Xipo, Daler Wilderness, Feicao Collection, and other homestays, it is China's first 'lodgings collection' and a natural holiday destination themed around the desert, where every snapshot is a masterpiece
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ISRAEL PENA
Spend your May Day holiday at the Desert Star Hotel in Zhongwei and traverse the Five Lakes
Come to Ningxia for a walk with your kids this May Day! Stay at the super popular Desert Star Hotel, known as the 'Home of the Stars', where you can see the desert Milky Way without even stepping outside✨ It's also a desert entertainment kingdom for kids, with lots of fun activities like sand sliding, desert UTV, camel riding, sand digging...
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🚩Ningxia Luxurious Wilderness Crossing 5 Days 4 Nights
🔺Private small group, minimum 2 people booking
🔺Full transfer service with driver-guide (including 24h airport transfer)
🔺All scenic area tickets + tour vehicles + multiple special experiences
🔺Shapotou visit + Tengger Desert Five Lakes crossing
🔺Stay at the Star Hotel + Yellow River Suji
🔺Complimentary sand-proof shoe covers + Ulan Lake aerial photography + Star Hotel buffet dinner
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📍Located in the heart of the Tengger Desert, it is a secluded holiday destination where you can see the sand through the window, the sand at the door, the stars from your bed, and reach out to touch the stars.
⭕A Zone Sand View Rooms
🔸Spacious rooms with full amenities, including a large bathtub
🔸Convenient location, close to the main building, near the outdoor pool, sand therapy center, and restaurant
🔸First floor with sand view, second floor with night sky stars
⭕B Zone Cabins
🔹Detached cabins, each with an outdoor terrace
🔹Each room comes with a sandboard, beach shoes, sunscreen, and sun protection neck gaiter for use
🔹Kids can play with sand at the door while parents can watch from inside
❗Hotel special activities: DIY crafts, indoor/outdoor starry sky sharing sessions, woodblock printing, desert micro-trekking...
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⭕The ancient village at the big bend of the Yellow River, Yellow River Suji is a secluded holiday spot consisting of multiple guesthouses with different styles.
✔️Dalei Wild: The design follows the architectural features of old houses in the Yellow River basin, with a unique twist.
✔️Xipo: Northwest earth style, with orchards, Yellow River walkways, bonfires, and the filming location for 'Dear Inn 3'
✔️Nan'an: A luxurious Moroccan style with a large swimming pool and photogenic afternoon tea
✔️Feiniaoji: A high-end modern glass house with pottery and art galleries
✔️Beidao Bay: Full of Western Xia cultural elements, rooms equipped with high-end brand furnishings
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⭕More fun activities
⭐Shapotou: A desert amusement park with lots of desert entertainment like camel riding, sand sliding, surfing cars, sheepskin rafts...
⭐Five Lakes Crossing: Traverse the desert to find Camel Lake, Maple Lake, Egg Yolk Lake, Ulan Lake, Mandarin Duck Lake
⭐Route 66: Cross Route 66 and experience the scenery of the Yellow River on one side and the desert on the other
⭐Zhenbeibao Film City: Step into the world of movies from memory and relive the nostalgia of the 80s and 90s
⭐Lianshan Park: Architecture similar to the Roman Colosseum, good for watching sunsets and taking photos
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⭕5 Days 4 Nights Itinerary
D1⃣️ Yinchuan all-weather airport/train station pickup—free time—Yinchuan
D2⃣️ Yinchuan—Tengger Desert Five Lakes Crossing—Yellow River Suji
D3⃣️ Yellow River Suji—Ming Great Wall—Zhongwei Route 66—North Beach—Shapotou Star Hotel
D4⃣️ Shapotou Star Hotel—Shapotou—Zhenbeibao Film City—Lianshan Park—Yinchuan
D5⃣️ Yinchuan—Shuidonggou Site—Yinchuan airport/train station drop-off
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Li Xian also came to check in at the pure white glass house hidden on the banks of the Yellow River in the desert
On this ancient land of Zhongwei, beside the waves of the Yellow River, stands a spotless modern art piece - Fei Tengji Homestay. This is not an illusion, but the starting point of a wonderful journey in reality.
In the soft afterglow of the setting sun, you wander on the path intertwined with pear blossoms and jujube flowers, step by step towards those white buildings like in an art gallery. The surrounding beauty is like stepping into a vivid painting, which makes people indulge in it and forget to return.
Guest Room
Fei Tengji currently has 5 guest rooms, each room adopts a simple Nordic style design. When you gently open the door with the feather-like key, a simple but tasteful space is presented before your eyes. The soft light and shadow of the projector bring you a private cinema-like enjoyment at night, which is quite different.
Supplies
The intelligent facilities here are even more surprising, whether it is the voice service of Xiao Du Housekeeper, the automatic adjustment of electric curtains, or the convenient use of smart kettles, all reflect the harmonious coexistence of modern technology and natural environment.
Catering
The restaurant here is unique. Operated by a team from Wenzhou, they innovate and improve traditional Northwestern delicacies, making roasted lamb chops, millet pepper fried chicken and other dishes mouth-watering, each bite deeply touches your taste buds.
Gourmet Getaways
Afternoon tea by the Yellow River at the Xipo Zhongwei Holiday Homestay
I love the quiet and leisurely afternoon tea by the Yellow River☕
I love the vegetable garden here🥕🥬
I love the cute pets in the pasture🐶🐰
I love collecting eggs🥚
I love herding sheep🐏
There are ripe red dates falling in the yard
Leisurely swinging in the yard
I love it here⬇️⬇️⬇️
This is a desert🏜️ homestay transformed from a hundred-year-old village, the Yellow River Homestay Collection🐫
The Xipo Zhongwei Yellow River Homestay Collection is located in Zhongwei City, Ningxia, a natural holiday destination themed on the desert🏖️
It brings together homestays such as Xipo, Dalezhiye, Feiniaoji, etc.🏡 It is the first 'homestay collection' in China, and also a natural holiday destination themed on the desert
The Yellow River Homestay Collection, by restoring the Dawan Village with a history of more than 200 years, introduces top homestays, campsites🏕️, catering🍳, art galleries, bookstores📚, cultural and creative lifestyle brands from home and abroad, creating a brand new deep travel experience in the west! Recommended👍🏻