文化 | 英文版《你好中国》100集选（57-58)
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57 Mount Tai: A UNESCO World Heritage Site
58 Thousand Buddha Grottoes: Dunhuang
Dunhuang (敦煌; Dūnhuáng) is a city on the old Silk Road. It is in Gansu Province in north west China.
The city was founded by Emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty in 111 BC at the cross roads of two trading routes on the Silk Road, and the name 'Dunhuang', meaning to 'to flourish and prosper,' gives some indication of the town's prominence in ancient China. It is much less important today.
The city is a neat small sizes city centred around a statue and the lovely market.
Mogao Caves (莫高窟), (25km from town, most people visit on pre-arranged tour or arrive by taxi or take the green city bus to Mogao for 8 yuan each way. The bus also stops at the train station, and picks up and returns in front of the Silk Road hotel in Dunhuang city, as well as just outside Charley Johng's cafe). . The Visitors center and entrance is on the main road (almost opposite the train station), whilst the actual caves are afurther 13 km in on a shuttle bus as part of your admission. You must join a tour group as the caves are locked and only the tour guides have keys.English tours at 9AM, 12AM and 2PM daily (2:30PM in low season). If you can't get a tour in the right language you will need to tag on to one of the Chinese tours.. A UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with exquisite Buddhist art and manuscripts. Although the city had an early connection with Buddhism due to the passage of monks traveling the Silk Road, it was not until a monk had a vision of a thousand Buddhas above the desert at Dunhuang in 4th century that the famous caves were excavated and filled with the manuscripts and treasures.The tour takes about two hours and 12 caves will be visited , all the rest are closed. The tours are different from group to group with every group visiting the main caves. The number of visitors is limited to 6000 a day and advanced booking needed in peak seasons. You can arrange to visit closed caves, It will cost you ¥200 per person and per cave. Note that It can be handy to bring your torch. Worth a visit even if you don't pay the steep entrance fee and tour the caves, as the museum is free to enter and contains replicas of several caves, and there are a few small temples you can easily hike to in the nearby hills.
For information, during the cultural revolution the Buddha and some painting was destroyed. Main painting of the cave was restored around 1995. Well, restored, but restored! As of Jan 2014, the 35 meter tall Buddha statue is again open to the public after a lengthy restoration. On-site tickets can only be purchased from the Visitor Centre (8km from Dunhuang city centre on the main road to the train station), it is not possible to buy a ticket without the additional access to the movies/bus and there is no operational ticket office at the cave site itself. From July 2015, you have the option to buy your ticket on the website of "Dunhuang Research Academy" (http://public.dha.ac.cn/index.html). Here (http://www.mgk.org.cn/) you can book the tickets but only for chinese speakers. Mogao tickets are 240 yuan for foreigners (Sept 2014; no discounts available; tours in English at 9:00, 12:00, and 2:00), 160 for Chinese nationals, and 80 for Chinese students. Tickets are 120 yuan in in low season for the english tour and 100 yuan for the Chinese tour (March 2016). Tickets include access to 2 movies and a shuttle bus to the cave site. The first movie explains the history of the site on the silk road while the second is a very impressive 3D movie of some of the caves which are off limits to tourists..
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