A province steeped in history

Glory of a bygone era: Visitors (pic, below) entering beneath the outer wall of Jiayuguan Fort, which connects to the Great Wall of China and one of the towers that served as a lookout point. Pictured above is the courtyard and dwellings.

ON the far western Land of the Dragon Descendants, where desert hills are stacked upon each other, lies the Jiayuguan Fort and pass.

Built on a narrow valley of just 15km wide between Wenshu Mountain and the Black Mountain, it is the western end of the Great Wall of China.