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the familiar and the friendly
Oct 2, 2007
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"it might seem strange to call a place that i've experienced for all of a week 'familiar' but that's still how it felt to arrive at the beijing train station early thursday morning. ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
tofudan
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Datong
May 29, 2005
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"We got back to Beijing from Mongolia and headed by train straight to Datong, a city about 800 miles west of Beijing. The train was great. we were in this dingy carriage with no air ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
meercatvinny
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Temples and Caves
Apr 1, 2005
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"April 1st Arriving in Datong at 7:30 am we visited the CITS office (the government run tourist agency) and they were very helpful in finding us good and cheap accomodation and book ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
meandher
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Travels in Shanxi
May 1, 2005
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"Another national holiday in China means a weeks vacation, but I decide to stay pretty local, in the same province, and do some light traveling. My Chinese friend Kate wanted to go ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
trent
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Datong, it's not like Beijing
Oct 12, 2004
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"Written by Nelly Train ride from Beijing to Datong We arrived Datong yesterday around 4:40 pm. The weather is much cooler and drier in Datong. We were happy to finally leave our ho ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
jessnel
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On the train to Mongolia
Apr 30, 2005
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"Well, I made it onto the train, and with 15 minutes to spare! I promptly hopped back off the train to spend my remaining yuan before departure. And off we go! We ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
descoth
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Coal Minery in China - Datong
Jun 1, 2007
(14 photos)
"Having met up with yet another interesting crew during my severe downtime in Beijing (too much typing time, not enough city trippin'), we embarked upon a journey across China - the ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
fourloves
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Finally! I escape!
Jul 26, 2007
"Datong, Datong, so good they all said: "Where the f*ck is that?" After finally managing to sober up long enough to book a train ticket, I have managed the almost impossible and esc ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mr_awesome
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Datong
Sep 11, 2006
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"From Beijing we traveled by train to Datong to see some very old Buddha cave carvings and a temple "hanging" on the side of a mountain. Datong is in the middle of the coal mining a ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
rvagabond
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Dirty Datong
Sep 21, 2005
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"We were woken by the carriage guard at about 0630 and we battled through the crowds to the platform where we were picked up by a man from CITS (China International Tourism Service) ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
bakes
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Datong
Sep 3, 2005
(5 photos)
"The overnight train to Datong was fun again (so much better than the buses). Unusually, as soon as I stepped off the train I was approached by CITS (the nation-wide Travel service ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mert1149
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Hanging about in Caves
Oct 2, 2004
(6 photos)
" Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep - A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad Co ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
byrnedm
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The other China
Aug 23, 2006
"After the Great Wall we took the train to Datong, which took about 5 hours. The hotel, Yungang International Hotel, was pretty nice for the price (about $60 US per room) but the se ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
ninedeuce
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Get your cave on!!!...in Datong!!
Oct 26, 2006
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"Today I was in Datong!!! DaTONG DaTONG DaTONG!!! I went to see some buddhist caves that were really cool. They were from ~500 AD, and they are pretty well preserved and interesting ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
therunningdog
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Datong
Sep 16, 2006
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"Twelveth stop: Datong ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
natter_17
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Dalian - Haerbin - Datong
Jan 9, 2007
(14 photos)
"Philip's log, stardate 0901 mark 07, to the nearest decimal place...So here we are, my first travel logue entry. We're in Datong right now, in a little net cafe near the train stat ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
rivers2007
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Vacation Tour Trip- Day 1
Oct 2, 2007
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"Day 1: Datong (this is all written retrospectively...) It was an early morning waiting for our bus for the first of 4 days of our trip to Datong and Inner Mongolia. Waiting outside ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
katietravels
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Awesome caves and Hanging temple
Feb 25, 2007
"The 3 of us - Rich , myself and Ryan - decided to head for Datong before Beijing. The main reason - or in fact the only reason in our opinion - for a visit to Datong is to see the ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
richandvic
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Datong
Aug 31, 2006
"Howdy! Well the leo hostel in Beijing had some hard beds and I lost my facewash while I was there but I managed to meet a lot of really nice people. I am now following the pretty t ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
popgoestheworld
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UB to Datong
Jul 31, 2007
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"July 31, 2007 Ulan Bataar, Mongolia Now that we have seen a little bit of Mongolia on our short tour, we are ready to return to China. We want to take the train again, so we head o ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
yoni
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Coal mines, caves and cliff-face temples
May 25, 2008
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"Wanting to get a relatively well-balanced perspective on China, especially its monumental economic expansion, I'm glad Kirilee and I got a chance to travel through one of China's d ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mattersdorff
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Datong - Caves and Hanging Monestaries
Aug 29, 2006
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"Leaving Beijing, We took a "Hard Sleeper" from Beijing to Datong - leaving in the evening, travelling through the night to arrive rather early the next day. The whole process went ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
tallbird_lankey
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Coal and Caves in Datong
Nov 1, 2007
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"Well hello everyone! We know it has been quite a long time since our last update. We have been a little busy with traveling and settling back into school life. I' ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
teklife23
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China
Jul 15, 2007
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"Back from the Gobi desert, the girls and I set down in a new guest house. A bit dodgy, not so clean place with 10 military beds. But this will go for the three nights we have ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
koaclarck
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Interesting trip
Jun 1, 2007
"The first bus ride was two hours back to Taiyuan. After about 40 minutes, the bus pulled over and a drunk fellow got on. He was very loud and the quiet peaceful ride quickly turned ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mrewkowski
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Beijing to Datong
May 27, 2007
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"After an early morning start from the hotel we reached the official start at the Great Wall at Bandeling. The wall snakes over the hillsides in all directions and we are due to sta ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
p2pjaguar
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Datong... ouf
Sep 11, 2007
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"Bonjour a tous! Permettez moi de commencer en vous disant que c"est fantastique de vous lire! Ca fait un bien fou de voir que vous suivez nos aventures et que vous pens ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
marietony
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We'll Miss You Ryan...RIP
Aug 8, 2006
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"I've just recently learned that an old friend from home has suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. We still don't know the cause, but I just wanted to take a moment to remember Rya ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
shawnsmith
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Cloud Ridge Caves and the Hanging Monastery
Nov 26, 2006
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"Much like Chengde, Datong isn't that exceptional a place. Fortunately, there are a couple of attractions nearby that justify a trip here. The Hanging Monastery, about 70km distant ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mrconfused
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Datong and Wutai Shan
Jun 19, 2007
"Hello all, its Matt writing this blog , Sasha tossed all her toys again and insisted I write something. Well, we finally managed to buy a train ticket out of beijing to the c ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mattandsasha
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The yungang caves and hanging monestary
Sep 1, 2006
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"So, that's what it's like to travel by hard sleeper train eh! Not too bad at all, saves on hostel fees and saves me wasting precious time during the day. Only real bad point was it ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
wherespaultoday
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Got the sh*ts and visited a sh*t city
Jun 28, 2008
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"This was not the best day of our tour so far..... Woke up in the early hours in Pingyao and the heavens opened...from my back door! It was through the eye of a needle stuff and was ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
vickersontour
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Day government sacrificial intestines
May 22, 2008
(19 photos)
"I was going to start by saying that Datong will never win any prizes for being a pretty city, but then again, during the tour to the world-famous Hanging Monastery and Yungang Cave ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
garybarnes
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The adventure of Chinee train
Jul 30, 2007
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"The train in China is an experience by itself!!! First you arrive at the train station where more than thousands and thousands of peoples are trying to buy a ticket, trying to go t ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
worldtaste
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Hanging Monastery and Caves
Oct 7, 2006
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"Well we caught the overnight train from Beijing to Datong. Hard Sleeper class turned out to be 6 very narrow beds, 3 above each other on each wall. in a small cubicle with no door. ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
sueandrich
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Datong on the Quick
Apr 10, 2007
"Wake up with a train steward hitting me and asking me for my plastic card back that he only gave to me 5 hours ago which I had no idea where it was and as you can imagine it was a ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
sainty
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Datong
Oct 21, 2007
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"Datong Population-3 million We had a pleasant, 6-hour Hard Sleeper train trip from Beijing to Datong, chatting with friends, snacking, and watching the landscape ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
noalarmclocks
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Great weather... NOT!
Mar 28, 2008
"HE SAID: We really werent sure if we should venture to Dalat and see the sights here or simply fly straight to the popular destination of Xi'an. I am still not sure about thi ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
travelbee
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Wow
May 24, 2006
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"So we had an almost 6 hour ride by private van towards Datong which is located just on the fringe of Inner Mongolia (which is in China not Mongolia). Beautiful mountains sweeping d ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
onmyway
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Day one in Datong
Jun 30, 2006
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"Day 234 Fri 30th June 2006 Day one in Datong Well, well, well, where do I start? I woke up super early this morning, 5am to be precise. I did manage to get some sleep as it cooled ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
harvimalhi
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Datong by accident
Jul 6, 2006
"We had purchased tickets to go to the Chinese town of Pingyao but awoke on the sleeper train at its final destination which was Datong, the train did not even go to Pingyao! The la ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
rosanddave
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Da tong
Apr 29, 2008
(31 photos)
"From Beijing we took a 6 hour train journey to Datong. Here we visited a system of caves with huge carved statues of Buddha that were over 2500 years old. It was extremely imp ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
alexandcarol
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En route to Datong
Jun 21, 2006
"A bit sad to leave Beijing. Was growing fond of the place. Nearly didn't get to leave anyway. I sat for an hour in Beijing Central station waiting room for a train that was never g ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
kdwali
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Datong - Yungang Caves and Hanging Monastry
Nov 23, 2007
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"We'll be kind to Datong and refrain from describing it. Suffice to say most travellers we talked to there were either staying just one night or none at all. The main (a ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
mags_jon
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Datong and back...
Feb 23, 2005
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"Well hello again... On Monday I went to a place called Datong just outside of Beijing (6hours on the train) and the whole thing was rather an experience! I sat on hard seat for tho ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
hmules
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The Cold City
Nov 16, 2006
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"On the morning of the 13th I left the increasingly nippy weather of Beijing behind for...even colder weather in Datong. Damn the bad luck!! Datong was the capital of the ancient No ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
jasonfults
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Datong
Apr 9, 2007
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"Next stop Datong, entry point to Mongolia, basically the sticks. We left from Beijing Central train station which was chaos, as a westerner, and we where the only ones there, you g ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
dam
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Day 5 - Datong
Sep 4, 2007
"We leave the hostel early to catch our train to Datong in teh Shanxi region. The train station is huge more like a skyscraper and i'm a little concerned that finding our platform w ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
paul.wilson
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Datong
Jul 29, 2005
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"To give you an idea - a 'hard sleeper' is a bed in a six berth compartment of a train carriage. On our journey to Datong we had the bottom two bunks; this was bad news as everybody ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
danandrosemarie
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The Hanging Monastry
Nov 7, 2007
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"First Stop after Beijing with DBB & D McManus in town. Datong itself abit of a sh*thole, but a good base to visit Yunann Caves and The Hanging Monastry, which was the aim of ou ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
carneyt2
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Datong
Oct 11, 2007
(5 photos)
"After a heavy session for Jo Jos birthday in a bar in beijing there was a few tears shed when Dave, Jo Jo, Babs, Trace and meself said good bye to the girls and headed o ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
daithimc67
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datong and the long day
Mar 23, 2006
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"so, my day started off at 5:30 this morning with a man shaking my foot and rambling on to me in chinese. i didn't know what he wanted, i thought he was asking where i was going, so ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
jayna
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I hit the wall...
Feb 27, 2008
(26 photos)
"I don't know which word would describe Datong better, grimy or gritty....so let's use both. I'm on the outskirts of Inner Mongolia.....about four or five hours from the big pickle. ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
samgowest
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Travel: Datong
Aug 24, 2007
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"Datong: "Border town extraordinaire, the city has long held a strategic position on the edge of the Mongolian grasslands, first rising to greatness as the capital city of Tuoba: a ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
jlynnw
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coal mines and mermaids
Sep 5, 2007
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"Datong! First overnight on a Chinese train! Open sleeper sure beats the open sleepers in Russia. First rate! (Except for the spitting, which kept me up for hours, counting down for ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
linan
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Datong
Jul 5, 2006
(23 photos)
"The start of one month traveling in China. First stop was Datong. ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
ninaversteeg
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Chinese people
Sep 28, 2006
(9 photos)
"First morning in Beijing.I was rash to go to west Beijing train station. Because I hard now is a vacation season for Chinese people so it is difficult to get a train ticket. I jump ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
tomoco
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2 noci ve vlaku
Jun 18, 2006
(4 photos)
"Z Pignyao jsem jako vetsina, kdo nechtel podporovat cerny trh z jizdenkami na vlak-pres hsotely, jsem jela s jizdenkou pouze na stani - na nocni vlak. Nastesti v lehatkovem vlaku b ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
gabifilova
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Going to Datong
Aug 25, 2005
"Datong - the Chinies virsion of Girat-Gat and the amazing Yunyang Caves ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
yftahp
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back to china
Sep 19, 2006
"an epic border crossing this time, at 6 hours the longest i have ever done! have ticket for hohot, but as pull into jining many bail out of train, and realise could probably get to ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
chiz
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Datong here I am !
Oct 5, 2007
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"Hello ! 8 days in beijing where enough...even if i would have liked spending more time with some ppl there...it was time for mr to move on. So after taking to San ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
christo.pas
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Deity in Datong
May 3, 2008
(12 photos)
"Okay I'll admit the titles are getting more and more lame. Anyway, after a fun day in the desert, we went back to the hotel for the night and got up early for a 4.5 hour bus ride t ..."
A travel blog entry from Datong by
kzhou
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