China - Datong
July 9th 2008 I travel to Datong, passing through the huge industrial areas of Northern CHina. This is where much of the country's coal comes from and hence where many of the massive power-stations are. They're a blight on the landscape but, in such a growing, power-hungry country, they've got to put them somewhere.
Just West of Datong are the Yungang caves, a huge site of over 51,000 Buddhist carvings in a
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