Datong Hotels - Comments and Reviews

Train to Datong (6 hours) was good - hard sleeper involving a decent bench/bed. Arranging trains for next day proved fruitless upon arrival, so 2 days here it is.. Staying in a hotel near station and easily organised trips to hanging monastery and matu pagoda though.

Trip down town for food was a long one, and ending up giving up and jum...

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 federation of Turkic-speaking nomads who united northern China (AS 386-524), converted to Buddhism and, like most other invaders, were eventually assimilated into Chin...

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'm going to fill you in on a little secret though, because our #1 writer (Kevin) is busy filling out graduate school and fellowship applications you are all stuck with my sub-par writing...

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 escaped Beijing. Harder than finding your way out of the Cambridge one-way system, or stopping yourself from dancing on the pole in Kai Bar. There were several omens that...

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 strugle to find it at 5:30 in the morning. We came to datong to see two sights a hanging monestry built in the 500 AD and the yaogang caves. Both can be done in a day ...

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 Yungang Caves and Hanging Monastery. Datong was not the prettiest of towns. Smelly, dirty and polluted with lots of concrete and very little greenery. We stayed in a h...

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. Not bad though. I was on the top, lucky, Richard would have banged his head, not much room up there. Richie was in the middle, a bit more room for his head. The reaso...