Things to do in Guanghe

This is a highly recommended attraction. Autumn is nature's palette of colors, it's absolutely beautiful. Although there are 40,000 visitors every day, the scenic area has excellent capacity. Shuttle buses come one after another, and you only need to queue for half an hour at the entrance to board and start your tour.

Lanzhou Danxia Geological Park is fabulous. One of the top three things I have done on this tour. I used Trip.com to get out to the park and that was very easy. Shuttle buses are necessary to get between the various vantage points. I would come for longer next time and do the zip line. I got an 8am bus from Xiaoxihu Subway Station and it leaves the Park at 12pm to return back to the city.

Lina, the lecturer at the Gambo Museum, is exceptionally skilled. During the two-hour learning experience, she demonstrated a thorough understanding of the chronological order and comparative analysis of the artifacts, meticulously integrating historical evolution with everyday life. I look forward to the completion of the new Gambo Museum and visiting it again next time.

Family, anyone understand?! This trip was absolutely amazing! The scenery was breathtaking, every corner a surprise and a moment of romance. The staff were incredibly welcoming, and the value for money was incredible. I wanted to go crazy for it!

Zhuzigou in Luming Township, Kangle, Linxia is part of the Taizi Mountain series and is a great place to escape the summer heat. There is a gully sandwiched between two mountains. On one side is a meadow like a green carpet, on the other side is a pine forest, with a small river in the middle. You can camp and ride horses deep in the scenic area. It is truly a Feng Shui treasure land.

The Tibetan Culture Museum is well worth a visit; it's truly breathtaking, especially the 618-meter-long Thangka painting, which took over 20 years to complete and involved more than 400 Thangka painters. The museum's exhibits systematically introduce Tibetan culture and history, from clothing and architecture to writing, religion, and intangible cultural heritage.

Kumbum Monastery is also a monastery with distinctive Tibetan Buddhist characteristics. The Lotus Pagoda was built by Tsongkhapa's mother according to her son's request to "build a stupa at his birthplace," thus marking the origin of Kumbum Monastery. Later, because "the stupa came first, then the monastery," it acquired the Chinese name "Kumbum Monastery." It is one of the six major monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug school. It holds a high position among believers and is an important religious activity and pilgrimage site in Northwest China.

Everything was great, except the main entrance to the scenic area was incredibly hard to find. I drove around for ages, finally getting out of the car to look for it before I saw the underground passage across the street. The exhibits inside were excellent, but the elevator was hidden very well. I had to ask a staff member to find it, and there were no signs either. I didn't even see the underground level. When I was about to leave, I realized I hadn't seen the world's most amazing attraction, and I had to ask a staff member to find out where to go down. I almost missed the most worthwhile world's most amazing attraction! Everything else was absolutely worth it. I never imagined such a small county town would have so many world's most amazing attractions. If I hadn't checked Gaode Maps, I would have completely missed it.

Hidden within the Eight Squares and Thirteen Lanes is China's first museum dedicated to covered bowl tea—the Hezhou Mingyuan Covered Bowl Tea Culture Museum! The entire museum is housed in an ancient Qing Dynasty residence in Northwest China, preserving the "style of the Tang and Song Dynasties and the layout of the Ming and Qing Dynasties." Even the walls are decorated with blue and white porcelain covered bowls—it's incredibly unique! A leisurely stroll through it is so relaxing!

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wildlife Park was super fun! We saw all four of the "Plateau F4"—snow leopards, hares, Pallas's cats, and desert cats—things you can't see in other zoos. We saw Aoxue at the top of the mountain and Ling Xiaoming at the bottom. Ling Xiaoming was especially adorable; he was incredibly active after waking up. Although it was a cloudy and cold day, we still spent a full six hours there.