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Mogao Caves I am a girl who comes from Gansu?province, I want to analyse a successful attraction, Mogao Caves, which one in my hometown—Dunhuang. The?Mogao Caves?or?Mogao Grottoes?, also known as the?Caves of the Thousand Buddhas?, form a system of 492 temples 25?km southeast of the center of?Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the?Silk Road, in?Gansu?province,?China. The caves may also be known as the?Dunhuang Caves, however, this term is also used to include other Buddhist cave sites in the Dunhuang area, such as the?Western Thousand Buddha Caves, and the?Yulin Caves?farther away. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1000 years.The first caves were dug out in 366 CE as places of Buddhist meditation and worship.The Mogao Caves are the best known of the?Chinese?Buddhist grottoes and, along with?Longmen Grottoes?and?Yungang Grottoes, are one of the three famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites of China. An important cache of documents was discovered in 1900 in the socalled Library Cave, which had been walled-up in the 11th century. The content of the library was dispersed around the world, and the largest collections are now found in Beijing, London, Paris and Berlin, and the?International Dunhuang Project?exists to coordinate and collect scholarly work on the?Dunhuang manuscripts?and other material. The caves themselves are now a popular tourist destination, with a number open for visiting. The chances of developing a successful visitor attraction, it is related to its resourse closely. The most important resources of Magao Caves are the caves. The caves were cut into the side of a cliff which is close to two kilometers long. At its height during the Tang Dynasty, there were more than a thousands caves, but over time, many of the caves were lost, including the earliest caves. 735 caves currently exist in Mogao, the best-known ones are the 487 caves located in the southern s