Danxia Landforms Review, Zhangye, China

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Danxia Landforms Review, Zhangye, China

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This is a review post for the Danxia Landforms in Zhangye, Gansu, China. It also includes directions, pictures and other useful information as well as some not so useful personal opinions.

Danxia Landforms, Zhangye

Cost: 60rmb which includes the compulsory shuttle bus around the sites.

Danxia landforms is pretty famous so naturally there were a lot of people. The shuttle bus takes you to the first site and when your done just get back on it to the next one (or you can walk between them if you want).

At the last site you take the shuttle all the way back to whichever gate you came in.

The weather was good for me. It had rained in the morning but was fine in the afternoon which apparently is great for the colors. Judge for yourself by these pictures. Just to put this in context, I’m a bad photographer, this is using my phone camera and the only editing I ever do to my photos is resizing and editing.

You can click on them to see them full size.

Getting to Danxia Landforms

The hostel I stayed in offered a shuttle bus to the Danxia landforms for 50rmb round trip. It leaves at 1500 and comes back at 2030 or earlier if everyone is ready to go. The ride was not as bumpy as going to Mati Si.

I hadn’t planned on the tour so I did a little research on how to get there solo (off wikitravel.org I’m pretty sure). Since I didn’t actually go this way I can’t be certain it is correct.

Catch bus 3 or 4 to the Zhangye West bus station. From there you can get a bus to the Zhangye Danxia Landscape. It takes about 90 minutes to get there and costs 10rmb. The last bus back it at 1600. There is luggage storage available at the bus station.

Getting to Sha M�� Gong Yu��n (Desert Park)

Although I didn’t actually go to Sha M�� Gong Yu��n (not enough time) I had done the research of how to get there (I’m pretty sure this was off Wikitravel.org also). Since I didn’t actually go I can’t be certain it is correct.

Catch the #8 bus from about 50 meters north from the Drum Tower on the west side of the street. Apparently the bus is painted uniquely. Catch it to the south. The last stop is the Desert Park and it takes about 30mins from the Drum Tower. It costs 3rmb.