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YINCHUAN, China, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Lying on a lounge near a shimmering swimming pool and watching her daughters

playing in the water, Zhu Lizhi couldn't believe she was in Tengger Desert if

not surrounded by the golden sand.

"We come all the way to be here for star-gazing and I didn't expect the

facilities in the desert are so comfortable. Lying on the soft mattress and

watching the Milky Way through the glass roof is really an impressive

experience in my life," said Zhu from Zhejiang Province, southeast China.

The resort for star-gazing is in Zhongwei City in Ningxia, northwest China.

Located at the edge of Tengger Desert, it is also in the arm of the Yellow

River, forming a splendid scenery rarely seen in other places of China.

Based on the natural gift, Zhongwei has developed a series of tourism products,

including exciting entertainments such as sliding down from sand dunes, racing

in the desert and flying across the Yellow River in the Shapotou scenic spot.

Since November 2020, the exteriorly star-shaped Desert Star Hotel has been

opened to tourists in Shapotou scenic spot under supports of the local

government. As a reputed five-star hotel in desert, it provides tourists with

services such as star-gazing guide, sand therapy and dinner in sight-seeing

canteen.

"It's really an amazing experience to watch the Milky Way nowadays and this

place has provided a wonderful experience for star-gazing," said Yuan Lingjie,

a 26-year-old star-gazing tutor with Shapotou scenic spot.

Starry sky, infinite sand and the Yellow River have attracted lots of tourists

worldwide. Wang Xin, deputy manager of Desert Star Hotel said that all the

rooms have been booked up before September.

Not just the desert, with improving infrastructures in northwest China,

tourists can also drive to the old villages alongside the Yellow River to have

a short escape from urban life.

Dawan, once a deserted village in Zhongwei, has been adapted into a gathering

of high-end homestays in 2018, attracting top-class brands of Bed and

Breakfast, camping sites, art museum, bookstores and other famous lifestyle

brands to settle here.

Almost all of the houses, trees and traces of life have been reserved during

its reconstruction and tourists can have an immersive experience of countryside

lifestyle here.

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SOURCE: Xinhua Silk Road

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