Explore the thousand-year-old legend of Shandan Horse Ranch.

Shandan Horse Ranch Shandan Horse Ranch is located in the Qilian Mountains. The terrain here is flat and the grass is lush, making it an ideal place for horses to breed and grow. In 121 BC, Huo Qubing, the great general of the Western Han Dynasty, created a horse ranch after his expedition to the Huns. The defeated Huns sang a sad song: "I lost my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my six animals cannot reproduce; I lost my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my women have no color." It is the oldest royal horse ranch in the world. With the development of the times, the demand for military horses has decreased, and it has now been restructured into a state-owned enterprise. The main task of the ranch is breeding. The ranch has Arabian horses, Mongolian horses, Russia, and local Shandan horses, which are distinguished by the letters marked on the back buttocks. Now it also provides military horses for patrols in border areas such as Xinjiang every year. Shandan Royal Horse Ranch Scenic Area Now the ranch is also diversified, and it also grows economic plants such as rapeseed and barley. In early July, the rapeseed flowers that just started to turn yellow are continuous, with a green background in the golden color, like a yellow blanket spread in the green grassland, and the end of the grassland is the rolling Qilian Mountains. Now in the peak tourist season, the herdsmen go to receive tourists to ride horses during the day, and gather on the mountain to graze at night, let the horses rest and eat grass, and lead them back to receive tourists in the morning. It used to be free to visit, but now the ranch has started to charge as tourism is developed. Take a car from the entrance of the scenic spot to the station of the great general, which is also the main station for tourists to ride horses. There are two small highlands near the lake, where you can enjoy the group of horses drinking water at close range, the endless grassland in the distance and the rolling Qilian Mountains. If you catch up with autumn or summer rain, you will see continuous snow-capped mountains. If you are lucky, you can see the spectacular scene of thousands of horses galloping. Generally, it starts at eight o'clock and ends at more than ten o'clock. There will be several groups of horsemen driving groups of horses to drink by the lake. Riding a horse around the lake to the ancient city and back, 200 yuan per person, local herdsmen repeatedly urged not to let the horse run fast, worried about the risk, can only walk fast or jog, the horse runs too fast, easy to be dangerous. Tips: The ranch is very large, you can drive in and navigate to a ranch, or you can take the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed rail to Shandan Horse Ranch Station. The scenic spot ticket is 65 yuan per person, and the sightseeing car is 20 yuan per person. From the entrance of the scenic spot to the two stations of the Great General Camp and the Observation Deck. The altitude of the first ranch of the military horse ranch is more than 2,800 meters, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. In summer, you also need to wear a thin down jacket. The sunrise and sunset of the ranch are beautiful, don't miss it, you can drive to the nearby hillside to enjoy.