A thousand years of Buddhist art in the Mogao Caves, the last forts of the Han Great Wall, and a 25-room oasis to come home to each night.
One big day, then one easy day — the caves, the western forts and the eastern grottoes are spaced apart, with rest, rituals and a private desert dinner in between. Business-class flights, your China visa, Michelin-starred tables, a bilingual guide-interpreter at your side every day and a chauffeured luxury car — Mercedes-AMG G63, Rolls-Royce or premium electric SUV, where available — are arranged for you.
Lie-flat business class from New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles. Your assistant has already filed the visa and sent a one-page trip book to your phone.
In flight
Met at the gate by your interpreter and a chauffeured car — a Rolls-Royce where available. If you land in time, dinner at one of Beijing's Michelin-starred Chinese restaurants before a quiet night by the airport.
Stay · Beijing Capital Airport
A short flight west to Dunhuang. Your driver — in a G63 where available — takes you across the desert to Jangala, where the lamps are lit in the courtyard at dusk. Rooftop sunset, dinner, early night.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
A slow morning and the Dunhuang Museum. After 6 pm, into the Singing Sand Dunes by camel to Crescent Lake for sunset, when the crowds have gone.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
A full day with a mural specialist, your interpreter translating every nuance: the standard eight caves plus two special caves rarely opened to visitors. Evening: the immersive Encore Dunhuang performance.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
The Western Thousand Buddha Caves, Yangguan and Yumen Pass, and the Han Great Wall — then the wind-carved Yardang landforms at dusk. Our longest day, about 14 hours.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
Sunrise yoga, a singing-bowl session, incense-pill making from the Library Cave recipe. After dark, a private chef's dinner on the dunes and the telescope on your terrace.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
East to the Yulin Grottoes with special caves and an art historian, then the ruined city of Suoyang. Dinner back at the hotel.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
Leiyin Temple, the old film-set city, or a desert drive — or simply the pool. Evening at the Shazhou night market for donkey-meat noodles.
Stay · Jangala Dunhuang
Late check-out, then Dunhuang to Beijing for a farewell Michelin-starred dinner before the overnight business-class flight home.
In flight
Prefer two desert hotels? We can split the stay — five nights at Jangala, two at Dongyi Dunhuang.
From your US gateway, ticketed at the actual fare.
10-year L visa route and forms for US passports.
Mercedes-AMG G63, Rolls-Royce or a premium electric SUV, where available — for every transfer and day.
Chinese–English, at your side all day — at the caves, at the table, with locals.
Breakfast daily, rituals and workshops booked.
Real-name tickets secured the day they are released.
Starred tables in Beijing, private chefs and a dune dinner in Dunhuang.
One assistant from first call to flight home.