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Mogao Caves
Where China starts transforming into a lunar desertscape in the far west, the
handsome oasis town of Dunhuang is a natural staging post for dusty Silk
Road explorers. Mountainous sand dunes swell outside town while Great Wall
fragments lie scoured by abrasive desert winds, but it is the magnificent caves
at Mogao (
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) that truly dazzle. Mogao is the cream of China's crop of
Buddhist caves - its statues are ineffably sublime and among the nation's
most priceless cultural treasures.
