April 20 Day 6 Dunhuang

Day 6

Saturday, April 20

FLY TO DUNHUANG  This morning you begin with a visit to the Big Wild Goose pagoda.  Later, you fly west to Dunhuang, a Silk Road metropolis perched on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert (thought by many to be the world’s fiercest desert). One of Central Asia's greatest explorers, Sir Aurel Stein, who spent many months unearthing Dunhuang's forgotten treasures, wrote of the town's "geographically important position...near the point where the greatest old high road of Asia from east to west is crossed by the direct route connecting Lhasa, and through it India, with Mongolia and the southern portions of Siberia.

Note: when one travels from Xian to to Dunhuang we will be passing through Gansu Provence.  it is also known as the Xein Corridor (pronounced Hershey corridor).