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Lanzhou City Break, Private Tour
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Lanzhou City Break, Private Tour

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Created: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Based on 2 adults
Created: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Join this four-day tour to discover the essence of Lanzhou, a city that seamlessly blends culture and history with modernism and innovation. Visit Baita Mountain Park, climb up to the Temple and enjoy the scenic view over the whole Lanzhou. Get lost in the oldest commercial street, Zhangye Road Pedestrian Street and enjoy the Chinese cuisine at local restaurants. This tour offers you the flexibility you need to spend some free time wandering the streets of vibrant Lanzhou by yourself or choosing from a range of optional tours. 

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Lanzhou: located on the banks of the Yellow River, the capital city of Gansu Province in Northwest China is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. Historically, it has been a major link on the Northern Silk Road

Baita Mountain Park: gains its reputation form the three stately and magnificent ancient architectural complexes. Its White Pagoda Temple was built in the Yuan Dynasty to commemorate a Tibetan lama of the Sa-skya-pa Sect of Tibetan Buddhism

Day 1: ARRIVAL LANZHOU

Arrive in Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Upon your arrival at the Lanzhou Airport, meet&greet out tour representative who will assist you with the transfer to the hotel and check-in. The rest of the day at leisure. Take an opportunity to get the first sight of this blooming city that used to be a major link on the Northern Silk Road.

Overnight in Lanzhou.

Day 2: LANZHOU

After breakfast at the hotel, we will pick you up at about 9:00 for the visit of Baita Mountain Park. After a 30-minute-long ride, we’ll spend 2 hours exploring the halls and gardens of this Ming Dynasty complex, a site of great historical importance. Then, we´ll drive to Zhangye Road Pedestrian Street, the heart of the ancient city Lanzhou. With a history of over 100 years, it is praised as the oldest and most cultural commercial street of Lanzhou with various malls, stores, and restaurants. Afterwards, you’ll be driven back to your hotel, where you’ll be dropped off at around 14:00 and to further explore the surroundings at leisure.

Overnight in Lanzhou.

Day 3: LANZHOU

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel and get ready to enjoy a full day at leisure in the city of Lanzhou. You can both set out to visit the sites most interesting to you or simply relax at the hotel and enjoy the available services. Alternately, you can choose from one of the optional tours.

Optional tour A: Liujiaxia Reservoir, full-day tour

Meeting point: hotel´s lobby

Start: 8:30

Transfer: included

Duration: 8.5 h (approx.)

Liujiaxia Reservoir tour includes high-speed boat from Xiangyang Pier to Bingling Temple (Grottoes) to enjoy the scenery of both sides of Liujiaxia Reservoir. Later in the day, visit Bingling Temple (Grottoes). Then, after lunch (not incl.), take high speed boat back to Xiangyang Pier, from where you´ll be driven back to your hotel.

Optional tour B: Xiahe, full-day excursion

Meeting point: hotel´s lobby

Start: 8:00

Transfer: included

Duration: 12 h (approx.)

Walk around Xiahe and visit a Labrang Monastery, the Largest and higher education institution of Tibetan Studies in the world and the largest Tibetan Buddhism cultural center in Gansu.

Optional tour C: Maijishan Grottoes, full-day tour

Meeting point: hotel´s lobby

Start: 7:30

Transfer: included

Duration: all day (approx.)

Maijishan Grottoes, full-day tour is a real adventure. After your pick up at the hotel, you will take a high-speed train from Lanzhou to Tianshui South Railway Station (2nd class seat. The train ref: G1840 (08:53-10:15) or D2656 (09:01-10:23) or D2658 (09:15-10:37)) and drive to Maijishan. There you lay back and enjoy lunch at the local restaurant (not incl). Afterwards, you will visit Maijishan Grottoes, one of the four largest grottoes in China and is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Museum" and have a unique opportunity to admire this Buddhist caves complex.

Optional tour D: Yellow River Stone Forest Scenic tour

Meeting point: hotel´s lobby

Start: 7:30

Transfer: included

Duration: all day (approx.)

After a 3-and-a-half- hours -long ride, you´ll be visiting Yellow River Stone Forest Scenic, a large-scale scenic spot located in the southeast of Jingtai County, Baiyin City. Surrounded by mountains, the most characteristic of ancient stone forests, the stone forest landscape in the scenic area, the mountains and rivers are interdependent, and the natural large garden.

Overnight in Lanzhou.

Day 4: DEPARTURE LANZHOU

After breakfast at the hotel, prepare to check out of your room at the scheduled time and transfer to the airport for your onward or return flight.  

Comfortable and light clothing is best suited to travel in the warm months and warm clothing in the colder months in China. Visitors should not wear sleeveless shirts, shorts, short skirts or sparse clothing when visiting temples, religious or official buildings. Sun protection, sunglasses and a hat can be very useful during your stay. 

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TOUR GUIDE: 

  • Operated with English-speaking local guide during the Lanzhou half-day tour (Day 2) 

ACCOMMODATION:

  • 3 nights' accommodation

ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

Day 1-3 Lanzhou:

Standard Hotel Category = Ruida Boutique Business Hotel or similar 3*

OPTIONAL EXTRA:

Pre-/ Post night in Lanzhou:

Standard Hotel Category = Ruida Boutique Business Hotel or similar 3*

MEALS:

  • 2 Breakfasts 

TRANSPORT:

  • Inbound/Outbound private transfers from/to Lanzhou airport with English speaking guide
  • Air-conditioning private transfer during the Lanzhou half-day tour (Day 2)

ENTRANCE FEES AND ACTIVITIES:

  • All entrance fees and activities mentioned in the itinerary; Lanzhou half-day tour (Day 2)

OTHER: 

  • Meet & Greet
Excluded
  • International flight tickets and airport taxes or China visa fees (if any)
  • Rail tickets
  • Travel Insurance
  • Expenses of personal nature like tipping, laundry, telephone/fax calls, alcoholic/non- alcoholic beverages, camera/video camera fee at monuments, medical expenses or items not stated explicitly in the programme
  • City tax not included, payable on the spot
  • Any visit not mentioned in the programme
  • Optional tours and activities
  • Tips for guides and drivers
Accommodation

ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

Day 1-3 Lanzhou:

  • Standard Hotel Category = Ruida Boutique Business Hotel or similar 3*

OPTIONAL EXTRA:

Pre-/ Post night in Lanzhou:

  • Standard Hotel Category = Ruida Boutique Business Hotel or similar 3*
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