Datong Holidays
Sample Itinerary - REF CHINA 1595
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Day 1: Beijing - Datong
Welcome to Beijing. You will take an overnight sleeper train Beijing/Datong departing at 23:42 to Datong. (Transfer pending)
Day 2: Datong
You arrive into Datong early giving you a whole day to explore the area. Take a guided sightseeing walk around the Yungang Grottoes (some of the first and grandest of Buddhist grottoes containing intricately carved buddhas of all shapes and sizes), Huayan Temple, Nine Dragon Wall and Shanua Temple. The Nine Dragon Wall is a 600-year-old Nine-Dragon Screen made up of glazed tiles, the 50-m ceramic wall depicts a fire breathing dragon.
Day 3: Datong
Today you head over to the Hanging Temple and the Wood Pagoda for more sightseeing. The Hanging Temple is a sight to behold and is a structure that seriously defies gravity. Constructed on an impossibly precipitous rockface, it literally hugs the cliff.
Terracotta Warriors
The discovery of despotic Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi’s army of 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors occurred in 1974 when local farmers digging...
Weather in Shanghai
Fair, 24°C
Local Time: 10:03 PM
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