About 20 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang's famous Mogao Grottoes, there is a great stretch of desert. In the midst of the dunes lies a little half-moon shaped lake, 110 meters long and a few tens of meters broad, and so clear that you can see right to the bottom.
在著名的敦煌莫高窟西南約二十公里處，有一片大沙漠，沙漠下面有一個清澈見底，形狀似半月的小湖，長百十米，寬十幾米。