Crescent Moon Spring is 6 km south of Dunhuang in the Singing Sand (Mingsha) Mountains and is quite literally an oasis in the desert. The spring’s name derives from the crescent moon shape the small ...

The Crescent Lake, or Yueyaquan, a crescent-shaped lake in the middle of an oasis, is located 6 kilometers south of Dunhuang. Surrounded by Mingsha Mountain, it stretches out for 100 meters, from ...

Dunhuang in Northwest China's Gansu Province hosts thousands of tourists in the summer, but during the slack season, the number of visitors could drop sharply due to the freezing wind of the Gobi ...

Water has for thousands of years directed the currents of development in Gansu province's Dunhuang city - the only desert oasis for hundreds of kilometers in any direction as the camel trots. The ...

I had come to Dunhuang expecting to marvel at the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes and the crescent-shaped oasis nestled between towering dunes. Little did I knew that I was about to become part of a ...

The ancient city of Dunhuang , in the northwestern province of Gansu , has stood for more than a millennium but its natural and historic wonders could disappear into the dust if authorities do not ...