Liuyuan South Railway Station | Liuyuan Railway Station

Location: Liuyuan Town, Guazhou County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province (甘肃省酒泉市瓜州县柳园镇)

Liuyuan South Railway Station is about 3km from Liuyuan downtown. It was built in 2009 as a connecting station on Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway. So it now only serves high-speed trains on this route. As of November, 2019, there are 12 trains passing through Liuyuan South Railway Station and all of them are running between Urumqi and Lanzhou or Xining.

To Liuyuan downtown: about 3km, within 10 minutes’ drive.

To Dunhuang downtown: about 210km, 2.5h by car

If you just want to focus on the trip itself without worrying too much about the transfer, you can consider travelling with us! We at China Discovery provide comfortable and efficient private pick up service for our clients who have booked one of our tour packages. No matter when your train arrives, our friendly tour guide and driver will wait for you there, then escort you to your hotel or any location you want to visit with an air-conditioned and non-smoking vehicle. After the tour, they will also drop you off at the train station on time. In this way, you can get really relaxed on the way and focus on what you are interested in. The tour can be tailor made according to your plan, time, interests and demands. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us and tell us your needs.

Location: Dongdajie, Guazhou County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province (甘肃省酒泉市瓜州县东大街中段)

Liuyuan Railway Station is in Liuyuan downtown. It was firstly built in 1958 and got the name as Liuyuan Railway Station. Later in 2000, its name was changed into Dunhuang Railway Station. Then in 2006, after the present Dunhuang Railway Station was put into operation, it was changed back to its original name. Liuyuan Railway Station now operates normal trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Xian, Lanzhou, Urumqi, and other over 10 cities in China.

To Liuyuan downtown: 500m

To Dunhuang downtown: about 210km 2.5 hours’ drive from Dunhuang city.

It usually takes at least 2 days to cover the main highlights in Dunhuang. Just like the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an, the 2000-year-old Mogao Grottoes is the essence in a Dunhuang trip. Here you can admire thousands of colorfully painted Buddhist statues and have an eye-feast on the exquisite mural paintings. After that, you can go to the Echoing Sand Mountains to have fun in the vast desert and find out why Crescent Lake has never dried up for so many years. On the next day, go explore the remote wild Gobi desert landscape and several legendary historical sites such as Yumen Pass (Jade Gate Pass) which used to be a military defensive pass as well as an important border for international trade along the ancient Silk Road, and Yadan National Geological Park which features Yardang landforms in distinct shapes as you can imagine like Mongolian Bao, Stone Bird, Peacock and others. If you have more days, you can take an in-depth Gansu tour to Lanzhou, Zhangye, Jiayuguan or travel a little farther to the beautiful Xian, Qinghai, Urumqi, and Kashgar.

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