Is this Mongolia? Siberia? It might as well be!
October 26th 2012 Being woken up at 5am is never nice, but when it is on a night train which you have to quickly get off, you are still half asleep, disorientated and its sub zero degrees outside, its even worse. This was the start of our day in Datong!
With the sun not rearing it's head for the day for at least an hour or two, the bitter temperatures and the persistant taxi drivers starting to annoy us, we
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Dancing Dave
David Hooper
DATONG
Please tell me where you took this pic...haven't seen it before. As to Datong we had a totally different appreciation for what is on offer...and we did it in -20 deg C. I'm blogging it soon. The main degrading of Yunggang Grottoes is not just wind. It is from the coal mines across the road...some of the biggest in China. Hope you love Pingyao...unique vibe.