Guyuan

Guyuan (固原; Gùyuán) is a city in Ningxia Autonomous Region.

Get in

By train

Guyuan Railway Station is 3km east of town center.

• Lanzhou - takes about 11 hours
• Xian - takes about 8 hours
• Yinchuan - takes about 6 hours

By bus

Long Distance Bus Station is west of Zhongshan Street

• Lanzhou - takes about 8 hours
• Xian - takes about 7 hours
• Yinchuan - takes about 4 hours (7am to 6pm, from Yinchuan South Terminal)

See

• Xumi Mountain Grottoes. During the Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, more than 130 grottoes were tunneled into the eastern side of Sumeru Shan. Filled with Buddhist sculptures and almost 1400 years old. 
• 1 Guyuan Museum (固原博物馆), 133 Xicheng Road, Yuanzhou District (原州区西城路133号) (bus nos. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9), ☏ +86 954 7282331 (bookings), +86 954 2032653 (office), gybwgbgs@163.com. 09:00-17:00, no entry after 16:30, closed on Mondays. Very nice collection of artifacts dating from the Stone Age through the Silk Road period to the Qing dynasty. Free. 
• Huoshizhai National Geopark
• Liupan Mountain Forest Park
• Xiaoguan Ruins Cultural Park

Understand

• History - Guyuan City is the route of the ancient Silk Road, but also a necessary place for the East of religion. The history of the successive introduction of Guyuan's religions is Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Christianity, and Catholicism.
• Climate - It belongs to the typical continental climate, forming such climatic characteristics as long cold winters, variable temperatures in spring, short summers, rapid cooling in autumn, large temperature differences between day and night, low rainfall in spring and early summer, many catastrophic weather events, and large regional differences in precipitation.

Sleep

Mid-range

• Guyuan Youdian Hotel (Guyuan Youdian Binguan), 12 Zhengfu Road, ☏ +86 954 2031784.