Datong Tour

Datong, the second largest city in Shanxi Province, situated in the far north, near the border with Inner Mongolia. Amid the blasted landscape of modern industrial China-coalmines, power stations and a huge locomotive factory--are some marvellous ancient sites, remnants of the city's glory days as the capital city of two non-Han Chinese dynasties. The Turkic Toba people took advantage of the internal strife afflicting central and southern China to establish their own dynasty, the Northern Wei(386-534), taking Datong as their capital in 398 AD, by which time they had conquered the whole of the north. Though the period was one of strife and warfare, and the Wei never fully consolidated their hold on power,the Northern Wei, who became fervent Buddhists, made some notable cultural achievements, the finest of which was a magnificent series of cave temples at Yungang, just west of the city, still one of the most impressive sights in northern China. Over the course of almost a century, more than fifty caves were completed, containing over fifty thousand statues, before the capital was moved south to Luoyang, where contruction began on the similar Longmen Caves.

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Private Datong City Tours

	1 Day Private Datong Highlight Tour Tour Code: DTNCT_01 Destinations: Datong Attractions: Yungang Grottoes, Nine Dragon Screen, Huayan Monastery

	2 Days Private Datong Highlight Tour Tour Code: DTNCT_02 Destinations: Datong, Yingxian Attractions: Yungang Grottoes, Nine Dragon Screen, Huayan Monastery, Hanging Temple, Wooden Pagoda

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