HE SAID: Today we planned to take a bus from Datong to Pingyao. Stacy read tons of other peoples blogs stating how difficult it is to find the right bus at the bus station. One of the staff from our hotel offered to ride in the taxi with us to help us buy our tickets! How's that for being nice and providing good service? Unfortunately, our lugga...

Datong aprox. a 6hrs en bus, se ubica una ciudad contaminada por plantas de carbon. Sin importar se encuentra una de las grandes maravillas de China, las grutas budistas de Datong.

En un valle al oeste de Datong y fácilmente alcanzado por taxi o autobús público, más de 50 hoyos se han cavado en las colinas y llenado de estatuas budistas d...

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 station. we arrived here at 10am this morning. right first things first, ill tell you from the start - ok so we left Dalian on friday night. there were 7 of us in all - me...

spend first 3 hours of day unsuccessfully trying to get train ticket south to xi'an. get taxis to various bus stations and travel agents around town. case of everyone wanting to help, but nobody knowing exactly where we should go. all this hassle even with jess speaking chinese! eventually give up and get taxi out to hanging temple. very impress...

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 down a lot over night. I just lay in my bunk till about 6.30am. I got up and packed up my gear ready to get off the train at 7am, we didn't actually get to Datong till...

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 down to grasslands and remote villages - quite a beautiful ride. At the 6 hour mark we arrived at the Hanging Monastery. I am doing my best to upload some photos now, b...