Every year from the end of May, into the golden season of Badain Jaran, the climate is suitable, the lake is abundant, specially selected sunny days, to the Badain Jaran Desert.

Badain Jaran Desert is one of the four deserts in China, and it is also recognized as the most beautiful desert. Strange peaks, singing sand, lakes, sacred springs, temples, known as the Badain Jaran Desert "five wonders". High mountains and deserts that are forced to become rare tourist destinations due to poor transportation. There are 1,617 meters of desert Mount Everest, more than 1,000 desert lakes of different colors (Haizi), scattered in the depths of the desert herdsmen's homes, and desert temples that have been guarded for hundreds of years.

📍 Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia

Deep in the desert, you must go by off-road vehicle, recommended two days and one night of Badain Jaran charter route. Not only experienced the stimulation of the desert cross-country, met the red and pink romantic Haizi, found a temple in the desert, but also watched the sunrise and sunset in the two days without signal. Even if you come in high season, you can contract a large desert! You can see two red lakes, as well as a number of blue and yellow Haizi, as well as the temple temple Haizi in the desert, when the weather is clear and there is no wind, you can see the desert reflected on the water, especially fantastic!

How to get

Badain Jaran Desert is located in Badain Jaran Town, Alashan Right Banner, close to Zhangye and Jinchang in Gansu Province. So you need to go to Xi 'an or Lanzhou first, and then transfer to Zhangye/Jinchang, recommend Jinchang, relatively close. After the end, continue to play Zhangye - Dunhuang great Northwest line. After landing, sit on the off-road vehicle contacted in advance, from Jinchang to Badain Jaran Desert. Desert off-road coefficient of difficulty, must find local experienced drivers.

Ways to play

Charter two days and one night, basically covering the popular routes. We were the first day in the afternoon into the desert, all the way to the temple Haizi near the camp, watching the sunset and shooting stars at night, camp accommodation. The second day Miaohaizi - Red Haizi - double color lake all the way out, back to the road in the afternoon, arrived at Zhangye in the evening to rest. If it's a photographer, suggest an extra day.

📍 Recommended attractions

⚫️ Hong Haizi
A scenic spot recommended by China National Geographic, the rose-like red salt Lake is super easy to photograph! Red Haizi is snow mountain cloud sea meadow lake at the same time, the photo is really out of the film, there are many beautiful brides here to take wedding photos, Haizi opposite the mountain called Bijia mountain snow peak, in the sunset reflection in the lake, Haizi like dyed a magnificent red, so it is named red Haizi.

⚫️ Miao Haizi

Deep in the vast Badain Jaran Desert in Inner Mongolia, there is a mysterious lake called Miaohaizi, and on the edge of it stands an ancient building, that is, the Badain Jaran Temple. My heart tomb robbing notes series novel "Sand Sea" in the Gu Tongjing! You can see the reflection in the early morning, and the water and sky are particularly beautiful. Hundreds of kilometers of desert solitude, lit up by this mysterious temple, as if summoning ancient legends. Exploring this mysterious place, you may be able to touch the cycle of time, feel the intersection of mystery and history.

⚫️ Two-color Lake

One red and one blue, lake red is more concentrated to shoot, must fly aerial photography.

⚫️ Rolling sand dunes

The dune lines in Badain Jaran are particularly shocking at sunrise and sunset, allowing drivers to take photos near the dunes with nice shapes. In fact, I love its dune aesthetics more than the attractive red Haizi of Badain Jaran.



📝 Must-have list

Drone (if you don't have one, you can get a chartered car with aerial photos)
Turban Sunglasses (windshield concave)
Slippers/boots (I recommend wearing boots or slippers in the desert, regular flat shoes tend to get into the sand)
Desert off-road easy motion sickness, you can bring some motion sickness medicine and the like