Half Day Dunhuang Private Tour
Program: Dunes of the Singing Sands / the Crescent Moon Lake

Depart from your hotel to visit the Dunes of the Singing Sands and the Crescent Moon Lake.

Located at 6 kilometers south of Dunhuang city, Dunes of the Singing Sands (Mingshashan) offers best picture-book desert scenery. The dune, surrounded by rolling ridges and precipitous cliffs, reaches a relative height of 250 meters. You can get to the top by riding camels, bicycles or hire a taxi. A wonderful view across the rolling desert sands towards the oasis comes to your sight after reach the top. When sliding down along the sands, it will make sound of "rumbling sands" or the sound of thunder or a drum-roll as the wind sweeps across the sands.

Nearby, locates the Crescent Moon Lake. It is said to be the point where the oasis meets the desert. is a natural spring fed pond measuring about 240 meters from east to west, and 50 meters from north to south. Today it has an average depth of about 2.4 meters, although in past times all of the dimensions of the lake were larger. In all of the years the desert has never filled up the lake. This was maybe due to the pattern of the winds, or maybe magic or the gods.
Be transferred back to your hotel.

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