The Mutou Valley is located in the
Flaming Mountains, near the ancient oasis city of
Gaochang on the rim of the
Taklamakan Desert
The Taklamakan Desert ( ) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the ...
in the
Xinjiang Autonomous Region,
China
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. Under a cliff in the Mutou Valley is located the
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, a complex of Buddhist caves temples dating from the 5th to the 9th centuries.
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Footnotes
Sites along the Silk Road
Valleys of Xinjiang
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