Yungang Grottoes Datong

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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 …

... was something we missed in Pingyao. At 9am our private taxi driver picked us up and took us to the Yungang Grottoes (about 16km away from Datong). Luckily for us it is "Buddha's Birthday" today so there is more than usual frenzi with fireworks, incense ...

Today, we first took in the marvelous Yungang Grottoes (云冈石窟) along with everyone else in China. Honestly, the crowds here weren't as bad as those at the Hanging Monastery, but probably only because there is so much more room ...

... of 3 million inhabitants, important for its coalmines and therefore a polluted city, but it is famous above all for the Yungang Grottoes (literally "Cloud Ridge Caves"), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In airport we met our likeable guide, Joan and the ...

We dozed off on the way back to the Yungang Grottoes, just to the north-west of Datong. The lack of sleep on the night train was starting to show. There is a walk in to the main part, from the car park, of about a mile. By the time we got there, Mum had ...

... here I think the snow would be black from the mass amounts of coal usage!    The Yungang Grottoes are why most people visit Datong.  They are a collection of Buddhist caves dating back to 400 or 500AD.  ...

... they had Buddha, Laozi and Confucius side by side, demonstrating the inclusiveness of Chinese religion. Today we took in the Yungang Grottoes, similar to the Longmen caves. These were also good, though maybe not quite as impressive as the Longmen ...

... to see the sun shinning and the snow quickly melting away; the weather today would be good for visiting the yungang grottoes (our purpose for visiting datong).  The grottoes did not fail to impress.  Adam and I are getting a bit saturated with ...

We arrived in the beautiful (not) city of Datong and checked into a very grotty hotel. We immediately left to see the Yungang grottoes, some 1500 year-old caves that have been carved with Buddhas and other Buddhist statues. They were very interesting and ...

... sure I really want to know what they all were. An early start this morning as we headed to the Yungang Grottoes outside of Datong. Thousands of buddhas carved into caves of various dimensions. Really I am doing a lousy job of explaining a pretty ...

... an acceptable room -- which was good, because I'd really wanted to see the Yungang caves (and the nearby Hanging Monastery as well). The Yungang Grottoes were built in the 5th century AD by the Tuoba (also known as the Northern Wei), a tribe of ...