Brief Introduction: The ancient SuoYang Castle is located 168 km southeast of Dunhuang city, Gansu province. It was listed as one of the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council in 1996 . In 2014 it was included into the world heritage list  by UNESCO. At beginning SuoYang Castle was built in the Han dynasty around 2000 years ago, andit was rebuilt in Tang dynasty around 7 century. Until to the 11th century, the castle was abandoned.

The castle consists of two parts : outer city and inner city. The outer city covers 800,000 square meters,and the inner city covers 280,000 square meters. The most intact military defense system,agricultural irrigation and water conservancy system in ancient China were preserved in this castle ruins, which fully embodies the defensive characteristics of frontier cities in hexi corridor along the ancient silk road and reflects that Suoyang castle played an important role to guarantee the traffic security for the long transportation of the silk road. In the castle area, the ruins of old town site, Buddhist temples, ancient canal system, tombs and other relics of ancient land reclamation area can be still found clearly as well.

 

The Level:  world heritage

Admission Fee: 50 yuanRMb, Shuttle bus: 20yuan RMB

Opening Time: 8:30a.m.—6:00p.m.(May 1—Oct.31);9:00a.m.—5:00p.m.(Nov.1—Apr.30)

Visiting Time : around 1-1.5 hrs

Better Seasons to Visit: March –November

Travel Tip: 1, The ruins now are in the Gobi desert,where it is hot in Summer. Please bring something avoid the hot sun, such as the sun glasses, sun cream, sun- proof coat .

2, Sometimes there maybe mosquitos,so please take something like anti-mosquito liquid.

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