Situated in Zhongwei City, Shapotou is regarded as one of the five most beautiful deserts in China and one of the ten most amusing places in China. If you stand on the top of the sand hill, you can see rough deserts, limpid lakes and vast grasslands.

As a national famous tourism site, it has the largest sand slide in China, 100m high with a total length of 800 meters. Sand sliding will give you an adventurous and breathtaking amazing experience. If you slide in a good weather, you can hear a unique sound like the beating of a huge drum, which is called "Tolling Bells in the Golden Sand". [China.org.cn]