Yungang Grottoes 1

Yungang Grottoes

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November 25th 2008
Hello again everyone. This morning I got up at 4.30 and we flew from Beijing to Datong which was an hour's flight. Datong is in Shanxi Province and is a big city famous for it's coal mines. We have been to Yungang Grottoes this morning which have some beautiful statues of Buddha and we will shortly be meeting the people from Datong schools. By the way, the temperature when we arrived this morning ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more