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Trip.Best Top 8 Best Things to Do in Zhangye [2024]

Explore the best things to do in Zhangye! Uncover top activities and experiences for an unforgettable visit.
Updated Sep 2024
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    󰺂8.7
    4.7/5
    22202 Review
    From729.42
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 311 reviews
    "The half-day tour time booked is not tired. The driver Ms. Ding arrived at the hotel we stayed at on time. The attitude was very good. The car was very stable. The car had to be clean. Our small group of 4 people was as comfortable as the business introduced. Very satisfied with this trip, thank you Ms. Ding for her warm heart service."
    Linze
    33.1km from downtown
    No.1 of Night Attractions in Zhangye
    Highlights: The Zhangye Danxia landform was formed over 6 million years ago. It is located in Zhangye city, within Linze and Sunan counties. Zhangye Danxia is mainly composed of red gravel, sandstone and mudstone. Visitors can gaze upon its thousands of cliffs and mountains, dyed a beautiful shade of crimson. When the sun shines down on the mountains, they echo with even more fantastic colors! The Zhangye Danxia Scenic Area was the scene for Zhang Yimo's movie, "A Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop" as well as the famous TV-show, "Amazing Detective Di Renjie".
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    󰺂7.4
    4.6/5
    1930 Review
    From1019.61
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 27 reviews
    "It took more than an hour to drive from Zhangye. The national road here also charges tolls, 18 yuan a way. There is a paid parking lot at the door. Pingshan Lake is very spectacular. You can walk down the valley. There are four observation decks on the ground. You have to climb up and down, and you can exercise your physical strength."
    Zhangye
    42.4km from downtown
    Highlights: Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon is located in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, only 56 kilometers away from the city. It is a national 4A-level Attraction that integrates canyon exploration, geological research, ethnic customs, self-driving off-road and other experiences. It is as spectacular as Zhangjiajie and as shocking as Colorado. It is a rare treasure in the eyes of geologists and a new discovery of the Silk Road in the hearts of travelers. In the track of the Qinghai-Gansu Grand Loop, Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon, with its primitive magnificence and deep canyons, unveils an extraordinary journey to travelers. This is not only a masterpiece of nature, but also a holy place for spiritual exploration, inviting you to give your tired soul a wanton stage.
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  • top_3
    󰺂7.2
    4.6/5
    2797 Review
    From298.04
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 132 reviews
    "Zhangye must check in the tourist attractions. The Buddha statue of Nirvana is very shocking. The 18 Luohan is also very characteristic. The verses written by Yongle Bei Tibetan scriptures and gold and silver are very beautifully framed. The Ming Dynasty Buddha statues are exquisitely made, the Tibetan scripture cabinets, the story of Benjue Nuns, and the replica grottoes of the Golden Pavilion Temple. Don’t miss out on historical humanities."
    Zhangye.Dafo Temple
    758m from downtown
    Highlights: Zhangye Buddhist Temple is located in the southwestern corner of Zhangye City in Gansu Province. It is an important historical site on the Silk Road and a symbolic building of the historical and cultural city Zhangye. The Great Buddha Temple is a prestigious Buddhist temple in the northwest inland. The temple contains ancient buildings, towering old trees, and a beautiful environment. There are rare religious halls of the Xixia minority in the country, oversized indoor statue buddhas, rare Ming Dynasty handbooks, and thousands of collections of fine cultural relics.
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    4.6/5
    1416 Review
    taCommentScoreUrlbased on 45 reviews
    "You need to drive to two places. The first place is not long, but the medicine king's palace is more difficult to climb. The special cave needs to collect additional money. The second place is Beisi Grottoes. There are many attractions to visit and they are more difficult to climb. It is recommended to exercise before coming. You can buy butter lamps in front of Buddha statues by yourself, the price is not expensive."
    Sunan
    47.2km from downtown
    No.1 of Fall Viewing Attractions in Zhangye
    Highlights: Mati Temple, otherwise called Puguang Temple, is situated in the Sunan Yugu Autonomous County inside the Qilian Mountains and the immense cave temple complex. On the stone divider, there are various Buddhist statues for present thousand years, and there are skyscraper temples and hollows. It is extremely breathtaking and marvelous. There are temples of Chinese Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhist temples here. The style of a similar place is extraordinary and it is exceptionally one of a kind. There are various amazing landmarks, for example, the paintings and Buddha statues in the cloister, which are fantastic.
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    󰺂6.0
    4.3/5
    167 Review
    From509.81
    "After watching the documentary "Hexi Corridor", I must come to Shandan Army Horse Farm. I gave up the flat mouth and Wuzhi Mountain and came here. On the way, I also went to the state-run Army Horse General Field of the year. It was too magnificent and worth it. On the road, I encountered a large sea of rapeseed flowers. It was really a gift from heaven. The alpine pasture at the end of the military horse farm is so beautiful!"
    Shandan
    >100km from downtown
    No.2 of Fall Viewing Attractions in Zhangye
    Highlights: Shandan Army Horse Farm is located on the south side of Danxian County in Zhangye Mountain. It is a vast and vast prairie on the north side of Qilian Mountain. The horses are wide-ranging, and the grasslands and rapeseed fields stretch for dozens of kilometers, and the scenery is very magnificent. It has been a military horse farm of the past since ancient times, where visitors can experience the feeling of horses running on the grasslands. In addition, the wild mushrooms, special lake fish, yogurt, honey and other foods at the racecourse are also rare and worth a try.
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    󰺂5.8
    4.3/5
    136 Review
    "Qilian Mountain is really super beautiful, flat mouth is very suitable for punching in and taking pictures, the scenic spot is not big, but the view is very wide, suitable for bringing children, you can walk to the viewing platform, you can choose to ride horses, very easy, not tired at all"
    Shandan
    89.9km from downtown
    No.1 of Water Fun Attractions in Zhangye
    Highlights: Biandukou Ecological Leisure Tourism Attraction, referred to as Biandukou Scenic Attraction, is located in the southeast of Minle County, in the hinterland of Qilian Mountain, about 2,800 meters above sea level, with a high temperature of no more than 30℃ in summer and a low temperature of minus 20℃ in winter. The Attraction and Souvenir natural scenery are blessed by nature, with beautiful and bright landscapes such as thousands of hectares of rapeseed flowers, plateau pastures, Dadouba Valley, stone Buddha rock paintings, Niangniang Tomb, Black Wind Cave, and Zhuge Monument. The cultural landscape is intoxicating, and the international self-driving camping site, capsule hotel, motel, barbecue cabin, grassland camping base, ecological horse trail and other entertainment facilities and equipment are complete, and the service quality is excellent, which can meet the tourists' life needs of eating, living, traveling, shopping and entertainment.
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    󰺂5.7
    4.5/5
    67 Review
    From784.32
    "The price is higher than the colorful Danxia. You can drive by yourself and fly drones. Wide and empty beauty. It is worth going. With a drone, you can overlook the entire scenic spot in the air, which is too shocking. In addition to red and green"
    Sunan
    45.4km from downtown
    Highlights: The Alien Valley Interstellar Theme Geopark is located in Dahe Township, Baiyin Mongolian Township and Kangle Township Souvenir Kangbaiji Town, Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province. It is an important part of Zhangye National Geopark. The Souvenir is rich in glaciers, snow-capped mountains, forests, grasslands, Danxia, ​​hills, Gobi, deserts, wetlands and many other landforms. The park includes four Attraction: Mars Valley, Mercury Valley, Jupiter Valley, and the Great Leap Forward in Steel. There are protruding peaks, steep mountains, steep canyons, steep cliffs, jagged rock pillars, and strange rocks. The terrain is magnificent and vast, and the colors are gorgeous and colorful. Many landforms are very rare in the country. They are rare, unique, and unrepeatable high-quality tourism resources. It is a complex tourist Attraction that can bring tourists multiple enjoyments. The Alien Valley Interstellar Theme Geological Park has become a shining pearl on the Silk Road with its unique endowments.
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    󰺂5.7
    4.4/5
    42 Review
    "There is no snow when I go, so it is not very fun, but the meaning of going is not very big. If you go by car, there is not much distance to let you go by yourself. There is no paved road behind. It is very inconvenient and dangerous to walk."
    Sunan
    89.7km from downtown
    Highlights: Sunan Bars Snow Mountain Ecological Tourism Attraction is located in Xichahe Village, Dahe Township, Sunan Yugu Autonomous County, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, in the middle of the northern foot of Qilian Mountain. Bars means "tall, majestic, and sacred" in Yugu language. There are six snow-capped mountains distributed from east to west in the Attraction, among which the main peak, Bars Snow Mountain, with an altitude of 5,118 meters, is a sacred mountain in the hearts of the Yugu people. The Attraction is mainly composed of snow-capped mountains, glacial relics, rivers, lakes and alpine grasslands. The ancient ethnic minority Yugu people live at the foot of the mountain. Its scenery maintains the purity of the nearly extinct nature. Because of its unique landform and cultural landscape, rich glacial relics and original natural scenery, it is known as the "Qilian Mountain Secret", "the dazzling pearl of the Silk Road", and "the paradise of outdoor sports". It is a paradise for ice and snow experience and hiking photography enthusiasts, and it is also a good mountain for primary snow mountain climbing training. The Attraction area not only has magnificent glacial geological relics, magnificent and sacred snow-capped mountains, but also has vast grasslands, colorful forests and the blue and transparent Snow Mountain Lake. It has the naturalness, novelty, rarity and beauty of geological relics and ecosystems, presenting the natural beauty of "majestic, strange, beautiful, secluded and vast". Almost all the beautiful scenery of the plateau is gathered here. The Attraction is an eco-tourism Attraction mainly integrating snow mountain viewing, ecological experience, natural education, scientific research and popular science. Its resource endowment and ice and snow landscape value are not inferior to Yulong Snow Mountain in Yunnan and Yading in Daocheng, Sichuan. CCTV's "Home in the Distance" in 2012 and CCTV's "Golden Route" in 2015 conducted special filming and publicity for the Attraction, further improving the popularity of the Bars Snow Mountain Attraction.
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FAQ

What Best Things to Do are there in Zhangye?
These are all Best Things to Do in Zhangye:Zhangye Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot, Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon, Zhangye Buddha Temple, Mati Temple Scenic Area, Army Horse Rance of Shandan
What are some highly-rated Best Things to Do in Zhangye?
Some highly-rated Best Things to Do in Zhangye include:Zhangye Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot:4.7, Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon:4.6, Zhangye Buddha Temple:4.6, Mati Temple Scenic Area:4.6, Army Horse Rance of Shandan:4.3
At what locations in Zhangye can Best Things to Do in Zhangye be found?
The Best Things to Do in Zhangye are mainly located in:Zhangye Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot:Linze, Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon:Zhangye, Zhangye Buddha Temple:Zhangye, Mati Temple Scenic Area:Sunan, Army Horse Rance of Shandan:Shandan
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