Nine Dragon Screen Datong

Today was a rainy day in Datong as the title of the entry suggests. Since we already traveled to the Hanging Temple and Yungang Grottoes on the first day of our trip, we planned to take it easy on the last day. We started by waiting up late and agreed to meet for lunch around 11:45, just before check out.

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Our touring schedule:Day 1 Datong Yungang Grottoes - Key point

Meet our guide at hotel lobby after breakfast (we get there one night before) and then take the coach to our first destination - Yungang Grottoes. We need to give much time on the sightseeing, especially the culture heritage, so we hired guide and vehicle there through an …

... we decided to skip Huayan, the famous temple in town (it was being worked on anyway--huh), and instead headed to Nine Dragon Screen (九龙碧), which is a glazed tile will depicting nine dragons (huh) intended to protect the palace of the ...

... caves was not very tastefully done - concrete everywhere. When we returned to Datong town centre we had a quick look at the nine dragon screen, 3 of which you can see behind Rich, Ryan and me: That night we were all very lucky and managed to ...

... Temple), one of the quietest sights I've been to in China (only 20 other Chinese tourists!), and the biggest Nine Dragon Screen in the whole of China (8 m high, 45 m long, 2 m thick). Driving through the outskirts of Datong to the sights further ...

... limited to the 'spiel’ that she gave but we soon found out otherwise. Sebastian, Jasmine and I went to see the Nine Dragon Screen. It is a wall that was built about 600 years ago... covered with 9 dragons, of course... and is ...

... fire breathing dragons and usually made up part of an important gate to a palace or City. There is also a famous nine dragon screen in Datong although we did not have the time to go and view it. After visiting this temple we visited Huayan Si which is ...

... etc), but really, the Hanging Monastery is one of the most unique sites I've seen.  Back in Datong, we wandered over to the Nine Dragon Screen, which was supposed to protect the emperor once upon a time.  There are other dragon screens in ...

... local street, we scurried back over to the bus and the driver brought us a couple hundred meters down the road to the Nine Dragon Screen. The wall consisted of nine colorful dragons on a huge wall. There were no other visitors in the compound so it was ...

... divine generals. There is a small dragon screen within the monastery grounds. A big title comes to the Nine Dragon Screen, the biggest screen wall in China. There are only there sort of screen wall in the country and two in Beijing royal garden and ...

... paint still intact on the sculptures and they are resplendent. It is an awe-inspiring sight. In Datong we also visited a famous nine-dragon screen, a very large wall with glazed bricks sculpted into nine dragons of different colors. It was formerly in ...

... with a Buddha-like image in the middle. Some people see it as a sort of miracle. In the city of Datong they are some beautiful temples and a Nine Dragon Screen originally part of the gate of the palace of the son of Hong Wu, the emperor of  the ...