| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
Region : Jiayuguan to Dunhuang Train
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Crossing a motorway in the Gobi Desert.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Dunhuang is an oasis in the Gobi Desert.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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City lake with pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Street decoration.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Bridge over the lake with sand dunes surrounding the city.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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The city lake bridge.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Crossing the city lake over the bridge.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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The city is very green.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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By the canal.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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View of the sand dunes around the city.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Gate near the entrance of the city.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Hotel lobby.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Street scene.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Tiled painting.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Dunhuang has wide pavements.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Breakfast pavillion at a hotel.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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View from the breakfast pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Family having breakfast.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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The entrance to the night market.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Food in the night market.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Evrything is freshly prepared.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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The market is lit up at night.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Nuts.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Beef, tofu and cabbage on rice.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Making pasties.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Grilled fish.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Dumplings.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Grilled chicken and squid.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Mutton pilaf from Xinjiang Province.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Dumplings.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Making noodles.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Frying noodles with beef and vegetables.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Beef noodles.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Adding flavour to a fish on the grill.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Adding fire to a fish.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Grilled fish.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Night Market
|
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Bread with grapes.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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The streets are brightly lit at night.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Dunhuang railway station at night.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Sand dunes at the edge of Dunhuang.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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People visiting the sand dunes.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Visitors taking photos.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Visitors on the shuttle bus around the site.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Spectacular view of the Gobi Desert.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Sand dunes.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Two women.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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The beautiful Crescent Lake Oasis.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Woman posing by the lake.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Yueguan Pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Yueguan Pavillion is a former Buddhist temple.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Sand dunes from Yueguan Pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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View of the lake from Yueguan Pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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View from the pavillion.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Three Hong Kongers.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Crescent Lake Oasis
|
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Four women.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Bronze turtle dove from the Jin Dynasty in the local city museum.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Painted brick from the Jin Dynassty.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Lotus petal column from the Tang Dynasty.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Brick with dragon from a Tang Dynasty tomb.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Replica of Cave 45 of the nearby Mogao Caves.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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The ceiling of Cave 45.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Ming Dynastry porcelain chickens.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Yuan Dynastry bronze jar.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Qing Dynastry jade belt hook.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Aspara (angel) on woven silk.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Father and son visitors.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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The Mogao Visitor Centre is 10km from the city centre.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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The Mogao Caves are 25km from Dunhuang.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Desert landscape.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Desert and mountains.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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Desert and mountains.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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The Mogao Caves are carved with Buddhas and contain vivid murals.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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There are over 400 caves carved into the cliff at the Magao Caves.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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The caves were begun in the 3rd century and have been added to until the 1800s.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Structures in the desert near the caves.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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In the early 1900s, thousands of manuscripts were discovered in one of the caves.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Many of the region's manuscripts were carted off to museums in Europe.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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This Tibertan silk painting is now in the British Museum.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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This Tang Dynasty painting is now in the British Library.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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This Silk painting is in the British Museum.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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The Magao Caves are one of the big four such sites on the Silk Road.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Cave 329 is a Tang cave with carved Buddhas and murals.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Cave 332 shows strong colours from 1500 years ago.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Cave 334 shows murals of Buddhas.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Cave 17 has an Indian style central pillar.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Some of the murals are outside.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Most of the caves are locked to protect them from the elements.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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The 35m high Buddha in Cave 96 is the third larest in the world.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Painting on the Buddha (Cave 96).
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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External paintings (Cave 96).
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Another big Buddha in Cave 130.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Detail of the Buddha's robe (Cave 130).
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Murals in Cave 148.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Temple guardian (Cave 148).
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Woman at the caves.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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There are many structures in the desert close to the caves.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Stupas.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
Site / Event : Mogao Caves
|
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Desert scenery.
|
2025 |
| China |
State / Province : Gansu
City / Town : Dunhuang
|
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The road to Dunhuang from the Magao Caves.
|
2025 |
were added from 1 March 2026.