Yungang Grottoes Datong

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 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 ...

... 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.  Lonely ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... is truly an engineering marvel to have been built so well and so long ago. I was duly impressed! YUNGANG GROTTOES - Datong, Shanxi, China These caves were begun over 1500 years ago by Buddhist monks during the Wei dynasty and required nearly 50 ...

... with Chinese cultural traditions, starting in the 5th century CE under Imperial auspices."   Yungang Grottoes, one of the three major cave clusters in China, punctuate the north cliff of Wuzhou Mountain, Datong. The area was excavated along the ...

... show for it--most notably the "Hanging Temple" at Hengshan Mountain (a holy mountain to the Taoists) and the incredible "Yungang Grottoes," a World Cultural Heritage site. I spent about three days in Datong all told. One day visiting the Temple and ...

... . Datong was a former imperial capital during the 5th century, and there is another major grottoes for Buddhist imagery. It's the Yungang Grottoes. The Buddha images were made slightly earlier than the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, but it's in even better ...

... at 6:00 in the morning from an overnight train from Beijing with a clear vision to visit 2 of the around Datong's main attractions, Yungang Grottoes and the Hanging Temple. Due to the lack of timeframe and the distance of Hanging Temple (not to ...

Today we set out for the other big attraction near Datong: Yungang Grottoes.  These are Buddhist caves carved into the side of a mountain.  Again, we weren't the only ones sight-seeing, but it wasn't so crowded as at the monastery because of the ...

... vytvoreny vetsinou na prelomu 5. a 6. st. nl. Nejake lepsi historicke informace jsou treba na wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungang_Grottoes Da se tam jet za 2.5 yuanu autobusem z centra, nebo za 100 yuanu na osobu s mistni cestovkou :) mimo mesto ...