Datong wasn't as grand as Bejing but it did have this place called Yungang Grottoes. A fantastic place full of Chinese Monastery's, monuments and later on Giant Buddah statues. Looks like something from 'Indiana Jones'.
Elephant with 3 tusks. hmmm
Some very nice Chinese carvings here. They tell a story of somesort.
It happened to chuck it down while we were there, we got pretty wet but given where we were we didn't mind.
This looks like the good guys temple.
This is deffenetly the evil sorcerer's temple.
Eventully you reach the caves cut to shape many years ago.
What type of people make these things.
There were some huge Buddah's you can't quite understand how big they were on photos, they were spectacular and from a building point of view they wondered me more then the great wall.
The artistic carvings in the rock just add to its character and history.
"Hello everyone, I'm a buddah i live in a cave!"
Was a brilliant place to visit and if you happen to go to Datong deffenetly go see this place.
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