Thursday August 24th, 2006
Asia > China > Datong
Today we started with a visit to the hanging monastery. Two hours by minibus 65 km south-east of Datong.
The monastery is about 1400 years old and was built "hanging" to protect it from weather. Originally the monastery was more than 100 metres above the ground but nowadays it's only about 15 metres up because of the dirt the water has brought from the mountain.
After this our minibus drove us to the Yungang-grottoes about 16 km west of Datong. In the grottoes there are about 50.000 statues in different sizes.
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