Mogao Caves-Annieli tours

                                    Mogao Caves

Mogao Grottoes, also called Caves of a Thousand Buddhas，the Mogao Grottoes lie in the steep cliffs of Mingsha Mountain of Dunhuang City，Gansu Province. An oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu Province, China. The caves may also used to include other Buddhist cave sites in the Dunhuang area, such as the Western Thousand Buddha Caves,and the Yulin Caves farther away.The Mogao Grottoes contain priceless paintings, sculptures, some 50,000 Buddhist scriptures, historical documents, textiles, and other relics that first stunned the world in the early 1900s.

                                Wrote by Annieli tours’s Beijing Tour Guide