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Updated Sep 2024
  • No.1
    󰺂6.7
    4.2/5
    273 Review
    From236.41
    "Aksai This scenic spot is the location for many film and television works. The most familiar is the nine-story demon tower movie. The scenic spot can basically be visited for more than an hour, and you can go to the nine-story demon tower area to take pictures and punch in. Passing by from Lenghu Town to Dunhuang."
    Aksay
    53.6km from Subei
    Highlights: Boluo Zhuanjing is the county seat of Aksai. This is the filming location of the movie Nine-story Demon Tower.
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  • No.2
    󰺂8.3
    4.5/5
    8146 Review
    From1323.88
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 888 reviews
    "Great! Normal tickets need to be reserved in advance. You can make an appointment through platforms such as Trip . After the appointment is successful, you can pick up the ticket with your ID card and enter the park. The normal ticket is more than the emergency ticket. It is very shocking. The art treasure in the desert is a worthwhile trip."
    Dunhuang
    59.3km from Subei
    Highlights: The Mogao Caves, also called Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, is located in the southeast of Dunhuang city. The Mogao Caves scenic area consists of the Mogao Caves Digital Center and the Mogao Caves. The Mogao Caves Digital Center shows short films about the caves. After thousands of years of carving, the caves have a large number of murals, cultural relics, and etc. It's a world-famous Buddhist art destination. The artistic characteristics of the caves are mainly reflected in the ingenious combination of architecture, statues and Dunhuang murals, and the artistic styles of many dynasties are vividly and harmoniously presented.
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  • No.3
    󰺂8.8
    4.6/5
    18816 Review
    From866.83
    "When I came to the Crescent Spring Scenic Area, the soft sand mountains like silk flashed golden light under the sun, like pyramids. A team of camels carrying tourists circled Mingsha Mountain in turn. Crescent Spring is located in the surrounding of Mingsha Mountain, because its shape is similar to a round of crescent moon. The night's starry sky concert can sing, the atmosphere on the spot is superb, people forget the troubles in an instant!"
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    66.3km from Subei
    Highlights: Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Lake is located south of the City of Dunhuang. The site features a mountain and a spring that are symbols of Dunhuang. You should visit the sightseeing area in the afternoon to avoid the heat of the midday desert. Once the sun goes down, you can climb the mountain. From its peak, you can enjoy the desert and Crescent Lake at the base of the mountain. The scenic area offers a variety of recreational activities, including camel riding, sandboarding, motorcycling in the desert, archery, and helicopter tours.
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  • No.4
    󰺂6.6
    5.0/5
    604 Review
    "Experienced such a camping in the desert, I still can't forget it. I participated in an event in the desert utv. The camp staff was very responsible and could actively solve problems. It was very good to meet this standard in the desert."
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    67.8km from Subei
    Highlights: Dunhuang Mingsha Mountain Desert Camping Wild Luxury Base is located in the southwest of Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Scenic Area. Here, you can climb Mingsha Mountain to feel the desolation and vastness of the Northwest Desert, and you can also ride off-road motorcycles to experience the speed and passion of galloping in the desert. The base currently provides a variety of recreational activities: sand motorcycle experience, UTV all-terrain vehicle surfing, sand boarding, camel riding, horse riding, zipline, swing, seesaw, etc. At the same time, it can provide a variety of desert experience projects such as team building, cross-country, barbecue, hiking, photography, tent camping, etc. At night, you can watch and shoot the vast starry sky in the desert.
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  • No.5
    󰺂6.0
    4.3/5
    22 Review
    "Very delicious, grandfather experienced the net red blindfold game, so funny! Archery is cooler! The boss is very good and also sent a free experience [Fun] [Fun] [Cost-effective] [View]"
    Dunhuang
    68km from Subei
    Highlights: The Dunhuang Silk Road Heritage City contains buildings of various styles, including the Daming Palace, the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Parthenon, and the Red Building. It is also a good place for tourists to learn about the local customs and culture.
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  • No.6
    󰺂6.2
    4.6/5
    1549 Review
    From2111.9
    "The lighting stage is absolutely amazing. Visual dinner. We saw that the day was a full moon, and the moon was perfectly integrated into the stage background. The stage will turn and see the indoors outdoors. Don't buy tickets on Trip . Hotel or taxi drivers can help buy tickets, there is a discount price and a round-trip pick-up and drop-off. Some people say that Dunhuang is good-looking again, but we prefer this performance. The experience is good, sitting outside, it is cool at night, no need to crowd people. This plot is simple, suitable for tourists like us who watch the show for entertainment and not education."
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    68.4km from Subei
    Highlights: The desert live performance "Dunhuang Festival" takes you to experience Dunhuang in all aspects and deeply understand the Mogao Grottoes. By using the desert sand of Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Lake and the magnificent Han and Tang Dynasty buildings of Dunhuang Villa, the stage scenes such as the wrapped caves and Crescent Lake are recreated. The audience seats can be moved back and forth by 360 degrees, and modern stage cutting-edge technologies such as wall shows, naked eye 3D, and holographic images are newly used. The historical culture and humanistic features of Dunhuang, an important town on the ancient Silk Road, are reproduced, allowing the audience to travel through the tunnel of time and space and appreciate the cultural atmosphere of Dunhuang more than 2,000 years ago. The whole performance is magnificent, the scenes are fantastic and gorgeous, the plot is gripping, and the visuals are beautiful.
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  • No.7
    󰺂7.2
    4.6/5
    794 Review
    Free
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 86 reviews
    "The overall is good, there is a special explanation, but there are still too many people during the summer vacation, people push people to have headsets, so it sounds clearer. If you make an appointment for free tickets, you probably don’t understand it."
    Dunhuang.Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring
    71km from Subei
    Highlights: The Dunhuang Museum is located in the south of Dunhuang City. It is a museum that displays the historical relics of Dunhuang in the Silk Road and the precious cultural relics in Mogao Grottoes. The museum has a very special appearance and looks like the walls of the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty and the beacon tower. Entering the interior of the museum seems to be a group of grottoes. The walls and corridors inside are all in the form of ancient cave corridors. The museum has multiple exhibition halls, but the main exhibition is the theme exhibition of the Dunhuang Museum - "The City of Huaying Intersection".
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  • No.8
    󰺂6.5
    4.7/5
    218 Review
    From2348.31
    "The actor carefully prepared, just standing on the edge of the angry King Kong, although there is psychological preparation or was shocked, the whole play is white clothes teenagers as the main line, the scene is beautiful."
    Dunhuang.Dunhuang Airport/Dunhuang Railway Station
    72.7km from Subei
    Highlights: "Music of Dunhuang" is the world's first cave-style immersive experience drama supported by the Central Propaganda Department, planned by the Propaganda Department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, and produced by the Gansu Performing Arts Group. The work traces back to the Dunhuang culture, and uses the in-depth interpretation and sorting of the Mogao Grottoes murals and the ancient books of the Sutra Cave to activate the research and development results of Dunhuang ancient musical instruments and ancient music scores. It uses high-tech means such as holographic projection and 3D wire to interpret the moving story of the young man Bai from the Western Regions in pursuit of art in a fully immersive presentation. The play uses national musical instruments such as the five-string pipa, panpipe, lotus Ruan, and the timbre of Dunhuang imitation musical instruments, and interprets a variety of Dunhuang dances such as the Huxuan dance, waist drum and pipa dance, and the Kalavinka dance. With the repertoire music taken from the Dunhuang ancient music scores and the Western Regions tunes, it restores the music and dance scene in the Dunhuang murals, fully demonstrates the charm of Dunhuang's ancient music culture that has been passed down for thousands of years, and brings the audience a full range of audio-visual feasts.Works created by:The repertoire of "Music of Dunhuang" involves many professional fields such as literature, music, dance, choreography, stage lighting, costume design, etc. The creative team brings together many elite artists in various fields and experts in Dunhuang art and culture research. In order to reproduce the charm of Dunhuang music, dance, poetry and painting, the creative team has conducted in-depth research in Dunhuang many times, and has ingeniously conceived and presented the script conception, music arrangement, dance choreography, multimedia visual design, costume design, stage lighting design, etc., fully showing the magnificent scenery and grand momentum of Dunhuang culture.Theater format:The theater design of "Dunhuang" breaks through the limitations of traditional theater space dimensions. Based on the 735 caves of Mogao Grottoes, a "living" Cave 736 was created. By replicating the characteristic shapes of the Sutra Cave, Buddha niches, lotus platform, and caisson in the cave, combined with the music and dance scenes activated from the murals, an immersive cave theater that can be seen, heard, walked, and interacted is created. The total area of ​​the theater is 18,000 square meters. It is the world's first cave-style immersive experience theater and a perfect combination of modern technology and Dunhuang art.How to watch the show:The "Dancing Dunhuang" theater is a huge stage without boundaries, divided into three major viewing areas, ABC, and each area carries a different viewing experience. Throughout the performance, the audience follows the movement trajectory of the protagonist Bai in the play, walking, standing, or sitting, exploring each space of the theater from shallow to deep, and gradually understanding the plot of the whole play. With the coordination of stage structure, scientific and technological means, and digital technology, you can not only feel a strong visual shock, but also experience a realistic cave crossing, allowing the audience's sensory emotions to fluctuate and change during the performance, and feel the brilliance and prosperity of poetry, dance, music, and painting in Dunhuang art at close range, and enjoyArt experience.Performance Mode:Equipped with various sound, light, electricity and mechanical equipment, the "Music of Dunhuang" theater breaks the boundary between people and stage, allowing the audience to be in the theater, appreciate the actors' performances at a closer distance, experience the changes in light and shadow, and feel the intersection and fusion of performers, music, light and shadow. It truly realizes immersion in music, light and shadow, performance and soul, which is impossible to achieve in traditional theaters.summary of the story:Bai from the Western Regions, with her persistent pursuit of music, followed the Western Regions princess to the Central Plains as a dowry. She was attracted by the splendor and charm of the Central Plains civilization, and constantly integrated the musical elements of the Central Plains and the Western Regions to form a new court music.During the Lantern Festival, Bai encountered a dancing girl, but could not recognize her because of the crowd. Dejected, Bai traveled to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and was shocked by the profound art in the murals. He then abandoned all distractions, devoted himself to art, ushered in self-sublimation, and stayed in the Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang forever.It implies that in life, one needs to experience thousands of experiences and go through many entanglements before one can break the shackles of desire, understand the truth of the world, gain inner awakening, and cultivate the ability and wisdom to transcend everything and turn around freely.Synopsis:Chapter 1: "Origin of Wonderful Music" - Interpretation of Western Region MusicIn the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Bai Shi from the Western Regions was famous at a young age and looked down on all living beings. However, the elusive sound of birdsong made him fall into great anxiety. He decided to follow the Western Regions delegation to the Central Plains to meet the emperor and open up a whole new world for himself.Chapter 2: Music on the Silk Road - Interpretation of the ritual music of the Central PlainsWhen passing through Dunhuang, Bai was shocked by the magnificent and vast musical world and mysterious music scores in the murals. He decided to stay there for a while to study and thus began to dream of integrating the essence of Eastern and Western music.Chapter 3: "Shangyuan Taegae" - the interpretation of folk music in the Central PlainsThe gorgeous Lantern Festival in Dunhuang brought Bai Shi into a long-lost taste of the human world, and people's desire for a happy life made him feel compassionate. After the prosperity faded away, facing the murals, Bai Shi fell into solitary thought, as if he had merged into it.Chapter 4: "A Magnificent Chapter" - Interpretation of Dunhuang MusicIn the Dunhuang murals, there are flying fairies more graceful than girls on earth, lanterns and flames more splendid than the Lantern Festival, and the heavenly sounds of the birds that he has been pursuing. When all these came together, Bai finally understood that the selfless dedication to fame and the mixed joys and sorrows of heaven and earth are the vast realm of artistic creation. Facing the bright moon alone and playing a pipa tune, this young man who pursued his dreams finally created a work in Dunhuang that comforted his life and realized his grand dream of integrating Eastern and Western music.
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  • No.9
    󰺂7.6
    4.3/5
    2571 Review
    From2348.31
    "The only thing I remember is to repeatedly ask: am I beautiful? Am I beautiful? A bit strange. The story inside is simple, the Taoist sold Jinwen for a lot of space, the scenery inside is dim, because of the peak summer vacation, there are many people, the experience is not good!"
    Dunhuang.Dunhuang Airport/Dunhuang Railway Station
    72.9km from Subei
    Highlights: "See also Dunhuang" via a multi-level interpretation, including the Mogao Grottoes, murals, rock walls and various cultural elements, reappearing the Mogao Grottoes from the opening of the cave to the prosperous, and then to the Taoist priests to show the long-standing mystery Throughout the process, each interpretation space will remake the connection point between the present and history. "See also Dunhuang" guiding the audience to re-interpret the mysterious and graceful art of Dunhuang dance music by the resurrection and restoration of the exquisite and oriental classical sight of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
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  • No.10
    󰺂7.2
    4.5/5
    2082 Review
    From614.66
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 57 reviews
    "Yangguan has been rebuilt here. You can see that the old site of Yangguan needs to be reached by a scenic car. There are basically no traces, but the years are like a shuttle. We need to feel it. You are also passing by the ancients at different times. The outside of the gate is really bleak. "West out of Yangguan without reason""
    Dunhuang
    84.6km from Subei
    Highlights: The Yangguan Ancient Site, also known as the Yang Guan Museum, is located on the west side of Dunhuang City. It was constructed during the Western Han Dynasty Wudi Period and is an important gateway of the South Silk Road. It was named after the its location of southern Yumen Pass. In the scenic area, there are a number of tower buildings that are imitations from the Han Dynasty. There are a number of exhibition halls set up to show the numerous artifacts from the ancient Silk Road. Here you can visit the cultural relics, view the architecture and stroll around the residential street.
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FAQ

What are some Best Things to Do near Subei?
Some Best Things to Do near Subei include:Boluo Well-Drilling Town, Mogao Grottoes, Mingsha Mountain And Crescent Spring, dun huang ming sha shan sha mo lu ying ye she ji di, dun huang si lu yi chan cheng
What are some highly-rated Best Things to Do near Subei?
Some highly-rated Best Things to Do near Subei include:Boluo Well-Drilling Town:4.2, Mogao Grottoes:4.5, Mingsha Mountain And Crescent Spring:4.6, dun huang ming sha shan sha mo lu ying ye she ji di:5.0, dun huang si lu yi chan cheng:4.3
Where are Best Things to Do near Subei located?
The Best Things to Do near Subei are mainly located in:Boluo Well-Drilling Town:Aksay, Mogao Grottoes:Dunhuang, Mingsha Mountain And Crescent Spring:Dunhuang, dun huang ming sha shan sha mo lu ying ye she ji di:Dunhuang, dun huang si lu yi chan cheng:Dunhuang
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