Yun Gang International Hotel Datong

... for the evening. This morning, as I stood outside testing the weather to see if I would need a jacket, a man who spoke English pretty well came up offering to take us to a few tourist sites. Solicitations from taxi drivers can be overwhelming at times, which is a good thing. It means you can always bargain them down from astronomical rates to reasonable ones--if they don't take the offer, someone else will. Not wanting to speed through the two main sites of interest in one day and ...

... we were on our way back up.<br><br>We reached another temple, however this one was under repairs and we had to give way to a pair of donkeys carrying down supplies. We could see the peak just above and figured we only had maybe another 15 minutes or less of hiking left. It turned out to be less. We had reached the end of the trail, sort of. There was a gate just beyond the temple and the gate was locked. Luke inquired with a local monk who seemed ...

... monastere dit 'suspendu'; ils ont construit le monastere sur la paroi de la falaise, avec les pieces du monastere elles aussi tailles dans la roche. Et ce n'est pas tout: en chemin pour le site, on a pu observer des villages entiers vivant dans ces especes de trous tailles dans la roche, c'etait vraiment impresionnant et completement depaysant. Ils avaient quand meme l'electricite et tout, mais je crois que ces gens-la ont vraiment une vie differente de la mienne.<br><br ...

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... away as we entered the cave and looked up at the huge icon. Datong city was certainly not as beautiful - a dirty busy place with lots of neon lights, I'm glad we were hopping on the train again that night. To make matters worse, my tonsillitis had returned with avengence and my head, throat and ears were pounding. I managed to get some antibiotics from the chemist - with Zsuzsannas help because speak - and I hoped they would work quickly.

... the churches windows would easily cost more than the family house beneath it. From the looks of the church yard I would believe that it had purchased much of the land around it and was eagerly waiting for demolition day. So much has change in the ...

... a sutra library. There are thirty eight wooden bookcases and a group of towers of wood. The tower is meticulously carved. The Bhagavat Storage has twenty nine coloured clay figures. They are of a rare collection of art from the Liao Dynasty. Huayan Temple: The Huayan Monastery complex is located on Daxi Street on the south western side of Datong City, Shanxi Province. There are ...

... a million different answers and thankfully some of them were bus numbers. It is strange the answers you get when you ask someone what BUS NUMBER or BUS to take to get you somewhere. Especially when you have a Chinese person asking another Chinese person. One person said after, 'lunch' another said 'to take the train' and the best answer ...

... liked this delicious monastery very much and walking on its footbridges and looking down is stunning. Later we returned to Datong for lunch: at last a good lunch, we appreciated very much. After a short visit to a monastery in the city, we went to visit the Yungang Grottoes, the true reason of this excursion. The Yungang grottoes are something astonishing, over all imagination, completely carved from the pavement to the ...