Haohai International Hotel Datong

Travel Blogs from Datong

Day government sacrificial intestines

A travel blog entry by garybarnes

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 Caves in the outskirts of Datong, I'm sure I heard our guide mumble something about Datong winning the Chinese Tourism Award in 2005. Being the skeptic I am, I decided to …

Hanging around Datong

A travel blog entry by tanja_sean

... showered, scruffy looking travelers were going to grace a posh hotel!!

Fortunately a person in our group of 4 could speak some Chinese, so we were able to find out that there was a bus to a town called Jining and from there we could catch a train to Datong. It all sounds good in theory! The bus was easy enough to catch and for a 6 hour trip it was relatively pleasant, the interesting bit was when we got to Jining. There was a lovely lady on ...

Avacardo/brown Bath

A travel blog entry by g4dginesi

... locals loved it and so did we.

We left Datong for our first experience on a night train top bunks all round 3 high! prety crazy night as every time we went though tunnel it felt like it put its emergancey breaks on!! and there were alot of tunnles. It really makes us realise that the chinese are so much smaller than us and these trains are not made for the average westener. but great ...

Deuxième étape : Inner Mongolia

A travel blog entry by esther_eli_2011

... alors qu'on a aucune id�e de comment �a marche les gares en Chine... On court, on court, c'est un d�fis de rep�rage, on se croirait dans une des ces s�ries t�l�s de rallye de voyage! Finalement on arrive juste au moment ou les passagers commencent � embarquer! Ouf!! On aura eu chaud! Datong�: Arriv�e � Datong, un se fait imm�diatement organiser par un mec des services touristiques! D�part demain pour la visite du temple suspendu, suivi de la visite des ...